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Re: Piracy - this time complete message
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2014 Feb 24, 11:03 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2014 Feb 24, 11:03 -0800
Thanks, Alexandre! I had never heard of that incident. Reading about it (and, in particular, the slaughter at Beziers) is a fascinating reminder that medieval Europe was not a very stable place and the interplay of religion and politics.
Must have been educated soldiers or they "reinvented the wheel"...
Must have been educated soldiers or they "reinvented the wheel"...
From: Alexandre Eremenko <eremenko@math.purdue.edu>
To: luabel@ymail.com
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 3:01 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Piracy - this time complete message
Lu, Just for the record: > (to quote a famous sign > posted by US soldiers during the Viet Nam war) "kill 'em all and let God > sort them out" Perhaps some US soldiers posted this sign, I don't know, but the famous sentence was said much earlier, during the Albigensian war 1209-1229: According to the Cistercian writer Caesar of Heisterbach, Arnaud-Amaury, when asked by a crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics, answered: "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" - "Kill them all! Surely the Lord discerns which ones are his". This was a crusade to desrtoy Cathar heresy in the South of France. Alex.: http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=127001
