Carcassone Archives - Just Go Places Culinary and Cultural Travel Fri, 19 May 2017 11:28:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How The Inquisition Made Friends and Influenced People https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/how-the-inquisition-made-friends-and-influenced-people/ https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/how-the-inquisition-made-friends-and-influenced-people/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2015 05:00:28 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=8154 And, the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan Although Thomas Hobbes was writing about the conditions of war in 1651 not much had changed since medieval times.  Life was even nastier and shorter if you caught the attention of the Inquisition.  The ecclesiastical body set up by the Catholic...

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