Insurrection and Apocalypse: Staring Down Monsters, from the Middle Ages to America Today
How the medieval understanding of redemptive violence can illuminate the impulses of some Christian conservatives today
Nine hundred years ago, on April 25, 1112 – an Easter Sunday – a mob in the French town of Laon rose up in a carnival of vandalism and homicide. Witnesses describe a world turned upside down. Merchants murdered the local bishop and set fire to the town’s cathedral. Serfs ...
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