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A Medieval post, in three parts...
Apr. 19th, 2005 06:23 pmHeere bigynneth the post
To my D&D group -- I intend, at some point this busy week, to post a brief summary of our adventures. After so many weeks idle, it'll be necessary.
I intend to continue the campaign without interruption at least through to the end December, if you all are still interested :)
As for the winter semester, I'll see -- I'll be back up to two classes then.
Sequitur pars secunda
More funny gleanings from Boswell:
( Cut for length, sex, Catholicism, and a Bishop named Flora )
Sequitur pars tercia
Today, as they announced the new pope, I was reading Boswell's version of the attack on the Cathars. The Cathars were a heretical sect. Most of what we know about them comes from Catholic propaganda, which claimed that they all homosexual. There may be some truth to the notion they were queer-positive: they were probably Manicheans, which would mean they likely saw the production of children as a great evil (as it entraps the soul in flesh).
Anyway, the Cathars were wiped out, and Catholic propaganda in the 13th Century cemented the connection between homosexuality and heresy so thoroughly, that a French word for one kind of heresy -- bougrerie -- entered English as buggery.
Meanwhile, the cardinals elected as their new pope the man who was the driving force between the church's antigay, anti-safe-sex crusade. So we can expect another several years of using the church's money and influence to hold back human progress.
And did anyone else immediately notice he's a dead ringer for Emperor Palpatine?
To my D&D group -- I intend, at some point this busy week, to post a brief summary of our adventures. After so many weeks idle, it'll be necessary.
I intend to continue the campaign without interruption at least through to the end December, if you all are still interested :)
As for the winter semester, I'll see -- I'll be back up to two classes then.
Sequitur pars secunda
More funny gleanings from Boswell:
( Cut for length, sex, Catholicism, and a Bishop named Flora )
Sequitur pars tercia
Today, as they announced the new pope, I was reading Boswell's version of the attack on the Cathars. The Cathars were a heretical sect. Most of what we know about them comes from Catholic propaganda, which claimed that they all homosexual. There may be some truth to the notion they were queer-positive: they were probably Manicheans, which would mean they likely saw the production of children as a great evil (as it entraps the soul in flesh).
Anyway, the Cathars were wiped out, and Catholic propaganda in the 13th Century cemented the connection between homosexuality and heresy so thoroughly, that a French word for one kind of heresy -- bougrerie -- entered English as buggery.
Meanwhile, the cardinals elected as their new pope the man who was the driving force between the church's antigay, anti-safe-sex crusade. So we can expect another several years of using the church's money and influence to hold back human progress.
And did anyone else immediately notice he's a dead ringer for Emperor Palpatine?
