The First Heretics Burned At The Stake | Orléans 1022

Heresy and burning at the stake, is there a more classic combo? Well believe it or not, those two things were not always connected, and the first time it happened at Orléans 1000 years ago, it would have been quite the surprise. But before the witch trials and the inquisition, the king of France, Robert II, condemned heretics to death by fire for the first time in the Medieval West, starting a trend which would last centuries.
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Recommendations for further reading:
-Barbezat, Michael B. Burning bodies: Communities, Eschatology, and the Punishment of Heresy in the Middle Ages (2018)
-Lambert, Malcolm. Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation (1977, 3rd ed. 2002)
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[@TriBgarage]

Very interesting, was surprised it started on clergy. Wish we knew what they did.

[@pixiephlox]

Very interesting! You have a great voice and manner of speaking.

[@qboxer]

Good, well balanced take on this topic.

[@_Wombat]

00:50 love how the one guy is just taking a nap.

[@Jimmylad.]

2:25 bruh 🤣🤣

[@marioksoresalhillick299]

so true

[@SuperMrHiggins]

Subscribed!

[@niklavssenkans8341]

PLASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS about burning at the stake history and WHY IT WAS USED IN THE MIDDLE AGES BURNING AT THE STAKE

[@Jimmylad.]

Also I wonder about this because later the Cistercians would be vegetarians. I don’t know if you know anything about any other vegetarians in medieval times?
Seems like a interesting topic

[@studiumhistoriae]

I'm not sure about any other specific groups, but I do know that the decision to abstain from meat in the middle ages was often a question of asceticism or temperance. Meat was seen as a luxury food, which is why it was not typically eaten during lent or various other days of the year, though maybe pescatarian would be a better word for it because fish was still permitted. The ideal meal of the ultra devoted was nothing but bread and water, but very few went that far.

[@Jimmylad.]

@studiumhistoriae fascinating, Schopenhauer infamously critiqued Christianity’s treatment of animal it seems a shame that their vegetarianism was only for ascetic purposes not the welfare of the animals themselves.

[@markrothenbuhler6232]

I prefer not to have my steaks burned.

[@Jimmylad.]

2:06 who’s the guys name is it John of Ripoll??

[@studiumhistoriae]

If you're talking about the guy in the image, no those are just random priests from an illustration in the Stuttgart Psalter. If you meant the guy whose name I said, yes it's spelt John of Ripoll (though he was a Catalan so it probably would have been Joan de Ripoll)

[@Jimmylad.]

@studiumhistoriae Thank you Godbless you

[@Samuil-iq6eb]

For 1022 the relevant context is the Xth, not the XIth century.

[@yourmajesty7592]

No. It’s the 11th century.

[@Samuil-iq6eb]

@@yourmajesty7592 Only 21 years had passed, boso.

[@goatboy150]

A thousand years. How cliche. They sure love their little number games, don't they?