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  1. Doorsday. The door leading to the roof and view point of the Clocktower in St Albans. Tower was constructed during the first years of the 1400s. Lad in the blue shirt is 187 cm tall. We didn't measure the door opening, but estimated it's just under 140 cm in height.
    #Doorsday #Doors #Clocktower #StAlbans #Medieval #MiddleAges #History #LowDoor #WatchYourHead! #UK #Hertfordshire

  2. Norman Cohn - The Pursuit of the Millennium Revolutionary Millennials and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages

    What an interesting read!

    With 4 introductory chapters you get a solid background for the rest of the book. In 9 more chapters examples of uprisings of the poor, led by messianistic leaders with apocalyptic visions.

    Starting in the late 12th century in ‘the backwash of the crusades’ with the amazing story of ‘pseudo-Baldwin’. To end Winding roughly 4 centuries later in Münster where some Dutch Anabaptists created a second Jerusalem, or so they claimed.

    Researched ‘46 - ‘56, the author pays attention to the horrific persecution of Jews by the hordes. And of course many uprisings were violently crushed after a while as well, massacres galore in this book. But not all uprisings were completely in vain, stresses Cohn. Sometimes real progress was made.

    He touches on similarities between the religiously inspired Ideas and those of Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx, Hitler & Rosenberg. Of course the stories from the Middle Ages were secularized and adapted once more. It was really astonishing to find that some of the dreams of more utopically minded comrades have such deep roots.

    #WatWouterLas26 #Reading #History #MiddleAges #Christianity #Heretics #Bookstodon #LezenIsLeuk