looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
Again no idea who that might have been? "Would condemn" - does that mean the achievement is no longer practised or doesn't exist?
What century was that?
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What century was that?
looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
What made you do so?
What choose to read the Martin Luther bio? I was going to have him as my character, but like to told you it'd be too easy for a German. This new one is not easy either, but I found it fascinating to research .
Yes, no longer practised.
He lived in the 15th Cent. His achievement was rather late in his life and its outcome heavily involved the Church.
Like something Trump would ask his 'redneck' followers to do.
Vince
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I'll take a shot at Thomas Müntzer, he seems pretty colourful and would probably have taken a shot at us.
Progress Film, a DDR company made a biography of him in 1956, apparently turning him into a proto-Marxist hero! Thomas I'm wondering if Richie wonders if you had seen it
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Nope. Thomas guessed him in the last one. My new character wrote something that rocked medieval Europe to its core and the church was at the centre of it.
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looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
Who benefitted from this achievement? The church was involved. you say. What was the church's official position on it?
looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
Quite.I'll take a shot at Thomas Müntzer, he seems pretty colourful and would probably have taken a shot at us.
Progress Film, a DDR company made a biography of him in 1956, apparently turning him into a proto-Marxist hero! Thomas I'm wondering if Richie wonders if you had seen it
It's amazing, Vince, what detailed knowledge you have about the GDR/DDR. Where from? I didn't know that there was that 1956 film about Müntzer and I have never seen it. However, I did watch the trailer available on YouTube and, as suspected, it made me inwardly shudder. What an awful diction and music reminding me of the old NS newsreel Wochenschau. I may have seen a 1970 two-part TV production, though, but I'm not sure really. I had an aversion to those kinds of propaganda films aiming to fabricate a socialist line of tradition by exploiting historical characters. Müntzer, in contrast to Luther, was a textbook example since he was willing to use violence which, apart from the property question, was the fundamental divide between communists and socialists/social democrats.
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looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
Could it be Copernicus although he also lived in the 16th Cent. and his nationality is not free of doubt?
Mine is definitely German born. Joined a branch of the Catholic church at a young age. It is what he did later in life that defined him when he offered something to the C Church that was to have a devastating outcome across medieval Europe.
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looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
You don't mean Heinrich Kramer by any chance?
BINGO. The German Inquisitor who wrote
Malleus Maleficarum, a 300 page treatise on how to identify witches, torture them to elicit a confession, then burn them alive.
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looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
Phew....
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This was the big clue, surprised Vince did not follow thru.
Fascination Thomas. I had little idea of the extent of German history, specially in the Medieval period.
looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
OK. I'm thinking of a real person who died in 2017.
