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Kimmo Huosionmaa
In popular culture, we normally see medieval period violent and dangerous time. The term "Dark medieval period" might create by the Protestants, who wanted to destroy Catholic church. And in this light, we must understand that Protestants wanted to increase the Catholic church role as the instrument of power. This instrument was used to destroy the enemies of kings. And in this way of view, this era was the very pressing era, and the burning many persons who wanted to reform that organization gave it very dark reputation. That organization persecuted everybody who wrote anything that was not same opinions, as an officially accepted theological writing involved.
If there would be any conflict with Catholic church and writer, the last one would find himself at the top of the pyre. The women went straight to death because they could be prosecuted by the husband. Only men had rights in that time. The role of women, as they must be quiet, and their husband was talking in the public situation. This is one way to look that period. The medieval period is quite different than we might expect, and of course, every criminal was not burned on the pyre. At that time were basically the same kind of criminal prosecution and punishment system than today. There was some kind of punishments like today, and the fine, prison and death penalties were used at that time. When we are talking about the inquisition, Dominican monks investigation system, the first punishments for prosecuted people were light.
The most common punishments were tickets, and the reason for this punishment was that was meant for cause hate against that person. This conviction was about the bullseye of the God. This was common version because somebody wrote the things, what were embarrassed for the Catholic church like the position of women and children. But when this person went back to home and tried to pay the price, there would not be any money. They were all taken, and then inquisition claimed that this person was cheapened the justice. And the reason for that must find out. That caused torture and death because the denying to pay the bill was so garish that it caused that penalty, where the person was burned to death.
The inquisition ever executed those people itself, the execution was made the secular authorities, that’s why Inquisition has kept its hands clean. The killing was not suitable for priests and nuns. It was the dirty job that left to sheriffs and soldiers. The medieval time was not full of the wars and despotism. The constitutional state was started to create in that time, and people learned to live even with Inquisition. The same thing was to happen in other fundamentalistic states in the world.
People would learn to live with that kind of system, and the turning to democracy was caused by war. The democratic state can mobilize all of the people, but dictatorship must leave large groups of the armed forces as the security troops, and this was the good argument for democracy if the state’s primary mission was to go to war. This model worked in Prussia, because it looked like more attractive, and gave people the change to take a part in the state leadership.
And this changed the military system that kind of thing, that every person in that state would feel, that they defended something important. But the democracy was far away from the medieval model, where the king was far away from the people. The kings ruled alone, and the people were same, who was their ruler. The unlimited rights of the ruler made the situation, that laws changed when the king changed. And that made the state very unstable.
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