SOSC 1740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Planned Community, Late Antiquity, Joseph Glanvill
13 Jul 2017
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In the social disorganization that followed, power came into the hands of those who controlled armies, trade routes, and great accumulations of capital. With the rise of military despotisms, came the suppression of academic freedom in the universities, and the studious suppression of the independence of the spiritual powers, in the interests of the temporal rulers. In the fifteenth century, according to von below, there was the beginning of organized gambling in germany in houses provided by the municipality. And the same tendencies appeared in the church: not merely the buying of offices and the sale of blessings, but the general recrudescence of superstition. Belief in witchcraft, rejected by saint boniface in the eighth century, was given final sanction of the. Church in 1484: perhaps because there had been in fact a recrudescence of earlier pagan earth cults that inverted christian morality.
