Category: Western Civilization

Caesarius of Heisterbach: TWO HERETICS WORKED MIRACLES BY THE AID OF THE DEVIL (from Dialogus Miraculorum) Caesarius of Heisterbach was possibly born and certainly educated in Cologne. After some inward struggle he became a Cistercian monk at the monastery of …

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Boccaccio, The Decameron The Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio lived through the plague as it ravaged the city of Florence in 1348. The experience inspired him to write The Decameron, a story of seven men and three women who escape the …

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