mochyn.bsky.social
Welsh medievalist. Dafydd ap Gruffudd apologist. Julian of Norwich obsessive. Boar of Babylon. Castle botherer. Annibyniaeth. Socialist. Gamer. Horror fan. Queer. He/him.
Gwnewch y pethau bychain.
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Bog Snorkler sounds like a gay slur
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I don't want you to be proud I want you to make your trains run on time
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We really should. Society is made lesser for the lack of it
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If a bloke called Dancy or some shit turned up in an impeccable pair of riding hose which accented his lower leg I too would gasp and whip out a fan with a dramatic flourish
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Death from hot face lmao
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Like, helping people to live is also an option. That's something the government could do. Rather than plunging people into absolute poverty and degradation and then waving suicide in their faces like that's something to be excited for
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A government that wields economic policy like a bludgeon against the most vulnerable in our society and then tells people "actually suicide is an option now". Get to fuck
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If you think this isn't going to be weaponised against the disabled you are lying to yourselves
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Anyway the church wasn't a strict behemoth, there was geographic and chronological doctrinal disparity, difference in practice and people were more than happy to question, ignore or even denounce the religious authority of the church even while calling themselves Catholic. Rant over. Diolch
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Thought the middle ages you had popes and bishops murdered, imprisoned, and the Pope engaging in war with people technically under his religious authority.
People even believed that there had been a woman Pope, even this assumedly fundamental rule was up for question and satire
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Even people who would have considered themselves firmly Catholic were capable of denouncing the Pope or switching allegiances to a rival one. European princes were engaging in a constant game of to and fro with the papacy for money, political support, investiture rights etc
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And of course politics and political aspirations are going to affect how you relate to the church. If a Pope is saying things which don't align with your interests the chances are you're either going to ignore the popes wishes or even find someone to align with who will support your political aims
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How someone in the mountains of Wales with an entirely different social and cultural structure practices Christianity is never going to be the same as how someone does it in the urbanised north of Italy or in the alps or in the levant.
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The basic fact is that you're never going to maintain a firm universality of belief and practice when you're talking about a faith held by tens of millions of people. Culture is going to affect the ways in which you practice that faith. And likewise faith will inform culture.
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And let's not forget that even the modern church has to deal with constant rival sects and papal claimants which aren't as dramatic as the medieval ones but they're out there and still happening lol
The church was never a monolith, no matter how much it may have tried and wished it could be
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Not to mention that regional "heresies" were popping up like clockwork even in the heart of contemporary Catholicism. The cathars, the hussites, lutherans. The church could barely keep a handle on its own doctrine let alone the religious practices of it's own flock
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Thirdly the church could barely keep itself together in that anti-popes and religious schisms were happening all the time. The avignon papacy being the most famous of these. At any one time you could have a handful of popes claiming to be the true and lawful successor to St Peter's throne
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These practices led to english religious figures to denounce Wales as barely Christian at all, even though the country had been firmly Christian for centuries and acknowledged papal supremacy
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Even after they'd been technically disallowed Wales was doing things like allowing priests to keep concubines and wives, priests were inheriting their positions so that parishes were essentially becoming part of the family estate, and famously Wales was ignoring the rules regarding consanguinity
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Second things, I love to look at Wales as an example of just how varied belief and practice could be while still under the umbrella of the Catholic church. For much of the period Wales simply wasn't playing ball, practices which were technically tabooed by the church were culturally prominent
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First things, first people talk about "medieval" as if it were a tightly defined and narrow period of time where the church held sway and not a thousand years of history. Things change. Over a thousand years things change A LOT. Everywhere. Always
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Ah a glass onion situation...
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"The butler" did it is too on the nose
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All we need is one rich person willing to be a class traitor
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Thank you! I wish I was for those sweet sweet royalties
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You're the only person who can pull off that energy successfully. As we discuss frequently you are incapable of doing or being wrong
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I'm not even sure I was aware I was doing it but you get the same energy as popping candy lmao
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Aggressive gardening is the vibe we're taking into next year
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I have questions...
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Would definitely read a book about Agatha Christie actually being the worlds most prolific serial killer
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There's a chance it may have actually been a neighbour we had round for drinks once but then I told him to get the fuck out of my house when he started lecturing me on covid and flat earth conspiracies. Friend or foe?
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Guy really cares about plants
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I'm comforted to know that she had first hand knowledge of toxins
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Sir it is half past eleven at night. What has possessed you?
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Just shove a tonne of toxic substances into the punch and then one wealthy guy (probably a politician) grabs his throat and dramatically gasps "cyanide!" before the entire party collapses to the ground and then a melancholic and mysterious Belgian detective appears and goes "twas greed the culprit"
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For the plot. Not for the justice. I don't know anything about Agatha Christie apart from that time she disappeared but I assume she was rich and therfore predisposed to evil
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Okay but you're the exception that proves the rule
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In my defence who hasn't accidentally found themselves in a sex cult?