Most peaceful day in Medieval Europe

News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe; the Fugger Newsletters

Any other interesting stories from the book?

Based and Darrell Brooks' closing arguments-pilled.

It's this. The Fugger bankers accumulated all kinds of letters from around the world so it's basically a dramanaut's social media feed from the late 1500s. Lots of gossip about the Queen of Poland fricking a gigolo, Francis Drake vs. the Spanish armada, religious wars across Europe, visiting Istanbul, the King of France ordering all college students out of the streets on pain of death, protestants making lewd remarks at nuns about how they should come out and get married.

Some professor at Portland State must have had this as required reading because there's always a million copies at Powell's.

Hate to think of how many normal people with some outside the box thoughts and no idea what they were getting into ended up brutally punished

I think we still suffer from this today. Actual outside the box thoughts can make people really uncomfortable, or feel safe. I imagine the inquisitors felt deeply threatened somehow by that world view. Not only that, when outside the box thinking happens, it is no guarantee those thoughts will ever even become words, or actions. This is what truly makes me sad: that human insight is everywhere, and new ideas are around us, coming out of humans all the time, but they are destined to never be exploited and understood to their full potential.

>rightoids in 2022 salivating at the thought of executing anyone they don't like

Reading about his case all I see is a 16th century sperg unwilling to shut up about his Bible fan fictions

Natural selection selects for pro social behaviors in humans like conformism and not asking too many questions

Protestant history is basically strip mall churches and Joel Osteen. We didn't burn enough tbqh

Hmm hard to say. The Muslims were dirty heretics who sullied the remains of the great Christian Empire of Constantine, but the Aztecs literally sacrificed thousands, displayed their skulls, and ate them.

Saying either answer is considered a nono these days, but frick anyone who considers the Aztecs good people. They literally ripped kids' fingernails out and drowned them alive to appease their "gods. " Muslims goaded people into conversions with taxes and enslaved women. Aztecs were objectively worse

Conquest of Mexico was awesome, imagine conquering a whole country with a shipful of people

Yea the Tlaxcalans were fricking brutal, I love reading about how the Spanish tried to control them in the war but that it never worked. Bernal Diaz del Castillo writes that during the Conquest the Tlaxcalans promised not to do human sacrifices or worship idols but by the time he died it was clear they were lying about quitting all that. Native thought was just too powerful, and he couldn’t do much about it since they were supposed to be the allies.