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Lessons from the flawed and controversial life of a Servant of God


Left: Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola (1497-98) by
Fra Bartolomeo (WikiArt);
right: A mid-17th century rendering of the execution of Fra Girolamo, Fra Domenico, and Fra Silvestro Maruffi (Wikipedia)
There can’t be many men who have been given the title of Servant of God by the Church but who were also burned at the stake by the Church. That’s what happened to the Italian Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola, who died on May 23, 1498. Understanding Savonarola’s controversial life may help us avoid making some of the mistakes he made in trying to reform his culture.
What were some of the decisions facing Savonarola in the fifteenth century? ....

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British Library could relabel Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to include links to slave trade


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For the case of Geoffrey Chaucer s manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, written between 1387 and 1400 - before the Portuguese started the Atlantic slave trade - it will be explained how the book came to be owned by the Harley family of slave-traders around 300 years later.
The family became wealthy through the exploits of Robert Harley (1661 - 1724) who, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, established the South Sea Company in 1711 and was connected to plantations in Barbados, Antigua and Surinam.
The South Sea Company was responsible for the transportation of around 64,000 enslaved Africans between 1715 and 1731 to Spanish plantations in Central and Southern America.   ....

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Europe's greatest martyr: how Thomas Becket rose from the dead


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April 19, 2021 at 4:37 pm
On 29 December 1170, four of King Henry II’s knights murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket inside Canterbury Cathedral, scattering his blood and brains across the pavement. The killing, 850 years ago, marked the end of one of the most brilliant, divisive careers of England’s Middle Ages. Yet, in many ways, it was also a beginning.
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News of Becket’s killing spread quickly and, in a matter of months, he had been transformed into one of the most famous martyrs in Christian history. Becket was canonised a mere three years after his death, while, within a decade, Canterbury monks had recorded 703 miracles related to the slain archbishop, and tens of thousands of visitors had flocked to the cathedral to venerate his remains. Supported by the circulation of new liturgies, miracle stories, sacred objects and holy relics, the cult of Becket soon dominated the landscape of Christendom, from Trondheim to Tarsus and ....

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Robert Tombs hits back at Leicester University


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What a tragedy if these are being denied to students now, and how crazy if this narrowing down is being done in the name of diversity or decolonization . 
The value of literature is to help is to imagine worlds we cannot otherwise reach, not to tell us about what is already familiar.  
Whilst Leicester bosses will keep modules covering William Shakespeare s classic works, many of the academics who teach the under-threat courses could now lose their jobs.
The University of Leicester has denied the changes are because they are too white
According to The Telegraph, up to 60 jobs are now under threat.  ....

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