Some of Matthew Paris's favorite words
Extortions, oppressions, legate.
There's always a bad papal legate practicing extortions and oppressions.
Image: A legate at work, drawn by Matthew Paris.
Labels: chronicles, church history, England, Matthew Paris, Middle Ages
posted by Steve Muhlberger at 8:04 PM
1 Comments:
I remember being surprised at the xenophobic currents so clear in his writings. I guess all of those oppressive papal legates were from away, weren't they?
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