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.

13 July 2022

The Medieval Church in the British Isles

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All of my blog articles from 5 January to 3 July 2022 gathered into one, rearranged, and posted to Academia.edu as The Medieval Church in ...

03 July 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 17: Abuses of the Benefice System

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While the Gregorian Reforms of the 11th century and the Concordants of London (1107) and of Worms (1122) corrected certain abuses both by th...

27 June 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 16: Its Courts Christian

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An often overlooked aspect of the medieval church in the Isles is its system of ecclesiastical courts, referred to at the time as Courts Chr...

21 June 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 15: Western Christian liturgical families

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In the Late Ancient and Early Middle Ages, the West had several liturgical families. There was the Roman Rite, of course, the African Rite,...

14 June 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 14: Pre-Reformation Dioceses, Archdeaconries, & Rural Deaneries

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Here you will find the dioceses in the various churches in the British Isles at the end of the Middle Ages and start of the Reformation brok...

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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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