Notes from the Ninth Circle

Essays, commentary, videos, information about political events, freethought, social democracy, history, and anything else I feel like writing about. Poems too, and a few short stories.

27 March 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 9: Chantries and lay piety

Up to the middle of the 14th century, the chief target for the rich to donate their wealth was monasteries. A series of events and changes ...

21 March 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 8: Terminology of Church Buildings, Architectural Features, and Furnishings

Some of the terms used for ecclesiastical buildings share a meaning with temporal uses, others not. In many instances, eccelsiastical meani...

19 March 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 7: The Parish

The most basic local unit for both civil and religious government was the parish, the boundaries of which were territorial and permanent, or...

12 March 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 6: Holy Orders

In the West, there were seven holy orders, the minor orders and the major orders of subdeacon, deacon, and priest, with bishops considered a...

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Chuck Hamilton: I am a Terran, a citizen of Earth. The whole world is my home and all its people my brother, sisters, and cousins regardless of organic or synthetic origin. Like our distant cousins on other planets across space and throughout time, we are all children of the Universe. None of us asked to be born, and none of us will get out of here alive.

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