HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Saint Dominic, Catharism, Scriptorium
23 Nov 2020
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After the early middle ages, penance and love became two sides of the same coin. Christians repented their sins because they loved god and wished to please him; God loved his people and so redeemed those who were penitent: among the strongest advocates for penance and the promise of god"s forgiveness were the dominicans. Their order was popularly named after its founder, the castilian cleric dominic de guzma n (1170 1221) it is officially known as the order of preachers. From early in his career, dominic desired to be more than a neighborhood priest; he wanted to be an evangelist at work in the world. In 1205 he traveled to rome to request that he be sent as a missionary to the mongols then advancing westward out of asia. The pope at that time, innocent iii, had another idea: He charged dominic to preach to the cathar heretics in southern france.
