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Often appears with: crime and punishment · religious persecution and toleration · waldensians of provence · waldenses/ vaudois persecution · vigilante arrest by peasants · treason and sedition · tithes and priests · stripping a prisoner · sin, guilt, and repentance · shame and reputation loss · rights and liberties · revenge prank between companions
Usually: injustice endured (5) · indignation (4) · argument (3) · narrative (2) · detachment (2) · letter or document (1) · betrayal (1) · deception discovered (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
“Bid them give this dangerous chatterer some purple shoes to take to his enemy, who, as he gives me to understood, has made himself a robe of that colour; that so he may know how little a worthless piece of cloth can help a man, without the greatest strength.” Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus · wit
A man with low status repeatedly accuses a rich citizen of sedition, drawing the emperor Julian’s mockery after the man cites that the target owns a purple silk robe as “proof.”
hated, because he himself, while still a private individual and of low estate, had often experienced the petulant frenzy of many in a way which placed him in great danger. 10. And though there are many other examples of his patience in such matters, it will suffice to relate one here. A certain man laid an information against his enemy, with whom he had a most bitter quarrel, affirming that he had been guilty of out…
Calvin tells Bullinger on 24 July 1545 that even if a French deputation was sought, it will stall unless pressed again, and he refutes claims that persecution of the Vaudois was due to refusal to pay tithes.
that question about which we had both been examined; for although there is a slight difference in certain particulars, we are, notwithstanding, very well agreed upon the general question itself. [*Calvin's Lat. Corresp.*--Opera, tom. ix. p. 33.] [501] Claude de Senarclens returned to Geneva loaded with testimonials of affection from the German Reformers. In the Town Library of Geneva there is an Album preserved…
In a 24 July 1545 letter from Geneva, Calvin calls for urgent measures to free and restore Provençal Waldensians, insisting commissioners must be just and inquiry must not be controlled by their enemies.
GENEVA, *24th July 1545*. Now is the time for vigorous measures, so that we may not have expended in vain so much labour in behalf of our unfortunate brethren; and now, if never before, they themselves, though silent, implore our aid. For, though I have learned from Germany, the King pretends that he will exercise some degree of moderation, for that a commissary had already been despatched to inquire into their affa…
He claims the slanders about multiple wives and sexual wrongdoing are false, and describes his personal discipline toward women, ending by asking God to keep him from all evil.
whether there be such a thing as a woman breathing under the copes of the whole heaven, but by their apparel, their children, or by common fame, except my wife. 315. And in this I admire the wisdom of God, that He made me shy of women from my first conversion until now. Those shy of women know, and can also bear me witness, with whom I have been most intimately concerned, that it is a rare thing to see me carry it…
Theodora and Justinian are said to agree in falsifying accusations and plundering victims, staging legal proceedings to benefit judges, and coercing cases through torture and confiscation.
partly owing to the harsh and peevish nature of Theodora; for the easiness of the one was uncertain, while the peevishness of the other hindered the transaction of public business. There was this difference in their disposition and manner of life; but, in their love of money, thirst of blood, and aversion to truth, they were in perfect accord. They were, both of them, exceedingly clever inventors of falsehoods; if a…
When peasants hear Fortarrigo shout “thief,” Angiulieri is arrested and stripped in turn, while Fortarrigo rides back to Siena claiming he won horse and clothes from him, leaving Angiulieri in shame and shirt.
God, would have suited action to word; and so, threatening to have him hanged by the neck and proclaimed an outlaw at the gallows-tree of Siena, he mounted his horse. Fortarrigo, making as if 'twas not to him, but to another, that Angiulieri thus spoke, made answer:--"Come now, Angiulieri, we were best have done with all this idle talk, and consider the matter of substance: we can redeem for thirty-five soldi, if we…