A Crisis of Legitimacy

[starshipcat]

Most of us have learned the basics of the Protestant Reformation as part of world history classes in school. There is the vivid image of Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the church, and generally some notion of the issue of the selling of indulgences (which most people can relate to in terms of the shennanigans of various

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[whswhs]

I read about that in Charles Williams's The Descent of the Dove, a brief but marvelously written history of Christianity. I've been thinking about it lately . . . I've wondered for a long time if it's what's being referred to in the French song that goes Sur le pont d'Avignon, l'on y danse, l'on y danse.

[starshipcat]

Quite possibly. If it's a folk song, it's completely possible that some of the lyrics have become confused as they were repeated across the generations before being written down.