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Will I ever be able to find anything helpful somewhere other than that bane of my existence?! I am determined not to refer to that website this time. And so, this is likely to be an extremely short post!
History Orb lists two historical events:
Pope Innocent IV issued "the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition." I'm not sure what 'ad exstirpanda' means... Apparently it is spelled incorrectly and should read 'extirpanda'. Thankfully I'm not resorting to that other site, hey? (This may be a copy of a translation into English.)
But over on the Iberian Peninsula (ie. Spain) King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castile/Leon was crowned.
In other news, gold came back into style! Apparently there had been a significant absence of gold coinage in Europe since it had gone out of fashion in the seventh century! European currency had, in the meantime, been based on silver. Gold first made a comeback in Florence with the minting of a gold florin in 1252AD. It was apparently an idea which came out of the East, specifically from Byzantium, and was quickly imitated by Genoa and then Henry III of England! (I had fun browsing through the beginning of "The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896" by William Arthur Shaw on Google books.)
So there you go: religion, politics and economics!
History Orb lists two historical events:
Pope Innocent IV issued "the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition." I'm not sure what 'ad exstirpanda' means... Apparently it is spelled incorrectly and should read 'extirpanda'. Thankfully I'm not resorting to that other site, hey? (This may be a copy of a translation into English.)
But over on the Iberian Peninsula (ie. Spain) King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castile/Leon was crowned.
In other news, gold came back into style! Apparently there had been a significant absence of gold coinage in Europe since it had gone out of fashion in the seventh century! European currency had, in the meantime, been based on silver. Gold first made a comeback in Florence with the minting of a gold florin in 1252AD. It was apparently an idea which came out of the East, specifically from Byzantium, and was quickly imitated by Genoa and then Henry III of England! (I had fun browsing through the beginning of "The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896" by William Arthur Shaw on Google books.)
So there you go: religion, politics and economics!
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