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The Catholic Church responds to inner divine-spark movements by defining the spark as demonic, sending crusaders against believers, and creating the Inquisition to educate or punish dissent.
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Crusades
The Catholic Church responds to inner divine-spark movements by defining the spark as demonic, sending crusaders against believers, and creating the Inquisition to educate or punish dissent.
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causal-model
Jiang says the Catholic Church allows Jews to exist so it can scapegoat them, then frames Jewish persecution and pilgrim humiliation under Muslim control as lead-ins to Urban II’s crusade.
interpretation
Jiang interprets Urban II’s crusade appeal as promising heaven to anyone who fights demons, including poor people, nobodies, criminals, and mercenaries.
model
Jiang presents the mainstream Renaissance origin story as a perfect storm of Constantinople's decline, Crusader contact with the Islamic Golden Age, competitive Italian city-states, merchant wealth, universities and monasteries, and the printing press.
diagnosis
Urban II's speech is presented as spreading racist rumors about Muslims to generate crusading anger.
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Jiang defines the Crusades as religious war, comparable in Western imagination to jihad in Muslim imagination.
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"...out, is that the Catholic Church proposes is the idea of crusades, where warriors go and kill those who believe in the divine spark...."
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"believe in the divine spark, you're not an evil person, you're a stupid person, because you don't know better. So the idea of the..."
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"The first problem is the Muslims occupy the Holy Land. If you truly represent God, why should you lose some in the hands of..."
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"And throughout this time, as you can see, Jews are being persecuted, mainly by being forced out of their homes, where they lived for..."
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"...and that's why Pope Urban II would eventually call for the crusade to liberate the Holy Land from the Muslims, okay? So can you..."
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"All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins...."
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"Okay, so this is Pope Urban II saying the crusades. It's to go and fight the demons. If you fight a demon, it doesn't..."
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"Okay, good morning. So today, this morning, we are doing the Renaissance. Specifically, we are asking the question, how the Renaissance? How did the..."
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"...with them Plato, Aristotle, okay? So that's one major factor. The Crusades! The Crusades, remember we discussed last class, it was a time when..."
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"is that because these city -states were always at war with each other, everyone was a participant in history. Remember, if you are in..."
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"Why this is important is previous elites were either of the warrior class or the priest class. If you're a warrior class, you win..."
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"and monasteries are places of theological debate and discussion and they store the classics and this is where a lot of new ideas will..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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