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Newsgroups: soc.history.medieval
From: ken...@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:35:25 -0500
Local: Thurs, May 10 2012 12:35 pm
Subject: Re: Most Important Medieval Battles
In article <joeo79$34...@dont-email.me>, cemanue...@gmail.com (Curt
Emanuel) wrote:
I would have thought that had been fairly obvious from the start. > however consensus has > been moving in the direction of believing that economics (plunder) > was the primary one. Monasteries like Lindisfarne were isolated defenceless and rich. About all they lacked to be an ideal target was women. Where religion might come in is that pagans would not feel any more guilty about targeting a monastery than a village. Ken Young
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