Pope Joan?

[RACooper]

Originally posted by Rudey
Can you address the study I posted that distinguished between several thousand killed through churches? I'm actually interested in knowing how they got around it.

Okay I've browsed through his "work" today at the library... it's disappointing to see such shoddy scholarly research passed off as credible research - the shame of politics can strike anywhere I guess.

Basically the guy's numbers don't match up at all with many of the primary sources or records of the Inquisitional courts themselves... his numbers for the total trials in Spain are off by almost 50% - but I guess he can "claim" the other courts weren't Church courts because they were joint courts with the secular monarch.

About the only use for his findings are the bibliography - at least it can lead to further and more enlightening research...

[Rudey]

Originally posted by RACooper
Okay I've browsed through his "work" today at the library... it's disappointing to see such shoddy scholarly research passed off as credible research - the shame of politics can strike anywhere I guess.

Basically the guy's numbers don't match up at all with many of the primary sources or records of the Inquisitional courts themselves... his numbers for the total trials in Spain are off by almost 50% - but I guess he can "claim" the other courts weren't Church courts because they were joint courts with the secular monarch.

About the only use for his findings are the bibliography - at least it can lead to further and more enlightening research...

Unfortunately, it's you against him. He is a scholar on the subject and this study was sponsored by the Church. It actually provides numbers on the low end also.

Either way, the point was that "Very few" did not die as some may lie, many did, and it was a tragedy.

-Rudey