Menace In Europe

Renew：Part 14
Author：Claire Berlinski
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：Fiction Literature
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter of Utrecht, his eloquence was extraordinary. He began, like so many propheta of the era, by condemning corrupt clerics, then broadened his attack to the Church tout court. Churches, he said, were no better than wh.o.r.e-houses. Like other Boves throughout the ages, he adroitly attached his followers" sense of spiritual unease to their most pressing economic grievance: according to the chapter, "He easily persuaded the populace to withhold t.i.thes from the ministers of the Church, for that is what they wanted to do."7 The area from which Tanchelm preached had for many years been swept by communal insurrections. From the Rhine Valley to Utrecht, from Flanders to northern France, town after town had risen up against its feudal suzerains. The historian Norman Cohn tells us that these movements were organized by the merchants, and that the merchants" goals were more worldly than transcendental: they were particularly exercised by high dues and tariffs. When unable to achieve their aims peacefully, they organized insurrectionary societies, setting fire to cathedrals and attacking Church officials. Tanchelm"s rhetoric about priestly corruption proved quite a convenient accompaniment to this species of vandalism, much as the present-day Bove"s rhetoric about corruption quite usefully matches his followers" frequently violent demands for protective trade barriers against foreign compet.i.tion. The words the modern Bove uses to describe capitalists, elected governments, multinationals, and the World Trade Organization are from the same lexicon: Parasites. Vampires.8 But this is not to describe the Boves"s followers-then or now-as ideologically disingenuous. On the contrary. They were and are true believers. Tanchelm"s charisma was legendary; his flock, according to the Chapter of Utrecht, was blindly devoted, rushing to make offerings to him, throwing their jewels in his coffers.
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Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14