Word: catharses
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With lucidity, proportion and no cheapness, Bates tells the story of those poor medieval sects (Cathars, Lollards, Waldenses, Hussites) which embraced pacifism and communism as the teachings of Christ. He shows that religious and economic motives were inseparable in their beliefs and in those of their persecutors. Middle-class Calvinism...
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