HIST 3329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Feudalism, Purgatory, Peter Waldo
29 Jun 2020
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Reading 3 witches & heresy in the middle ages [on exam] **the practice of witchcraft lead to the arrest of certain events. Suppression of some religious groups which laid the foundation of the modern early period. Augustine"s position: pagan philosophers unknowingly obtain their mystical knowledge from demons. Numa pompilius and pythagoras by mystification of the devil"s resort to hydromancy; devils in hell . In early europe, there"s the collapse of france and the revival of learning in the 1100s. Feudalism and trade increases allows the stability needed for the economic situations. Scholasticism is based on the belief that god has rationally arranged the universe as a whole and god has given humans sufficient reasoning how the world works. God has given the gist of reason so it"s our understanding of the universe is important. Contradictions between what are senses tell us of what is written in the bible. Ancient authorities revered by medieval scholars: plato, seneca and.
