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So, to conclude. The hypothesis I am playing with goes something like this.
- The events of the 14th century are a phantom copy of events of the 16th century, thrown back in time by the Catholic Church as part of their new chronology.
- After the Catholic coup, France was still full of multiple remnant populations more or less loyal to the old Eastern Empire (rewritten as the "Roman Empire"), which had allowed for a variety of different forms of worship as long as taxes were paid. Cretins, Cagots, Gypsies, lepers, Jews, and Cathars were all more or less lumped together as heretics to be combated.
- Over time, most of these groups were absorbed into the Catholic majority, with the hard core of those who refused eventually banding together under the rubric "Jew". Judaism as we know it emerges as a reaction-formation against Catholicism. Barzilay: In southern Europe during the Black Death in 1348...the charges were first directed against paupers, vagabonds, and mendicants, and only later transferred to Jews. Is this because "Jew" only emerged afterwards as a catch-all designation whose organizing principle was hatred of the Church?
- I didn't discuss Gypsies, but it's worth noting that France is full of white non-Roma Gypsies such as the Yéniche, who like the Jews adhere to a strict legal code that assigns outsiders ("Gadjos") an inferior position and allows members of the in-group to exploit them. A relic of a time when both Gypsies and Jews had an imperial charter to farm the local Celts/helots? How many Cagots and Cathars were absorbed into the French Gypsy communities?
- Like the Viet Cong or today's Palestinians, these groups engaged in the only kind of warfare which is available to outgunned minorities, namely guerilla warfare. This includes well-poisoning as well as, perhaps, using their international finance power to orchestrate famines.
- From the Jewish Virtual Library The Black Death:
Amid the general atmosphere of hostility and the cruelty of the persecutions to which the Jews had been subjected, it was almost logical that Christians could imagine that the Jews might seek revenge. Thus, a Jew who was tortured in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1349 “was then asked… ‘why did they do it…?’ Then he answered: ‘because you Christians have destroyed so many Jews; because of what king Armleder did; and also because we too want to be lords; for you have lorded long enough.’” (“… wan umb das, das ir cristen so menigen ju den verdarpten, do kuenig Armleder was, und ouch um das, das wir ouch herren wolten gewesen sin, wan ir genug lang herren gewesen sint;” Urkundenbuch der Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau (1828), nos. 193, 382).
We too want to be lords; for you have lorded long enough. This sounds like the kind of thing that one might hear from someone whose people have only recently been overthrown, not someone nursing a thousand-year grudge.
- Last of all, is the Bar Kokhba Revolt another phantom copy of the events of the 16th century in Spain, France, and Germany? I have of course presented zero evidence for that hypothesis, but I believe it is worth looking at considering what we know about the methods and techniques of the Catholic history forgers.
So, to conclude. The hypothesis I am playing with goes something like this.
- The events of the 14th century are a phantom copy of events of the 16th century, thrown back in time by the Catholic Church as part of their new chronology.
- After the Catholic coup, France was still full of multiple remnant populations more or less loyal to the old Eastern Empire (rewritten as the "Roman Empire"), which had allowed for a variety of different forms of worship as long as taxes were paid. Cretins, Cagots, Gypsies, lepers, Jews, and Cathars were all more or less lumped together as heretics to be combated.
- Over time, most of these groups were absorbed into the Catholic majority, with the hard core of those who refused eventually banding together under the rubric "Jew". Judaism as we know it emerges as a reaction-formation against Catholicism. Barzilay: In southern Europe during the Black Death in 1348...the charges were first directed against paupers, vagabonds, and mendicants, and only later transferred to Jews. Is this because "Jew" only emerged afterwards as a catch-all designation whose organizing principle was hatred of the Church?
- I didn't discuss Gypsies, but it's worth noting that France is full of white non-Roma Gypsies such as the Yéniche, who like the Jews adhere to a strict legal code that assigns outsiders ("Gadjos") an inferior position and allows members of the in-group to exploit them. A relic of a time when both Gypsies and Jews had an imperial charter to farm the local Celts/helots? How many Cagots and Cathars were absorbed into the French Gypsy communities?
- Like the Viet Cong or today's Palestinians, these groups engaged in the only kind of warfare which is available to outgunned minorities, namely guerilla warfare. This includes well-poisoning as well as, perhaps, using their international finance power to orchestrate famines.
- From the Jewish Virtual Library The Black Death:
Amid the general atmosphere of hostility and the cruelty of the persecutions to which the Jews had been subjected, it was almost logical that Christians could imagine that the Jews might seek revenge. Thus, a Jew who was tortured in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1349 “was then asked… ‘why did they do it…?’ Then he answered: ‘because you Christians have destroyed so many Jews; because of what king Armleder did; and also because we too want to be lords; for you have lorded long enough.’” (“… wan umb das, das ir cristen so menigen ju den verdarpten, do kuenig Armleder was, und ouch um das, das wir ouch herren wolten gewesen sin, wan ir genug lang herren gewesen sint;” Urkundenbuch der Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau (1828), nos. 193, 382).
We too want to be lords; for you have lorded long enough. This sounds like the kind of thing that one might hear from someone whose people have only recently been overthrown, not someone nursing a thousand-year grudge.
- Last of all, is the Bar Kokhba Revolt another phantom copy of the events of the 16th century in Spain, France, and Germany? I have of course presented zero evidence for that hypothesis, but I believe it is worth looking at considering what we know about the methods and techniques of the Catholic history forgers.
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