He also denounces the prevailing custom of the judges and lords of taking a graduated money payment for killing a man: for a peasant five, for a townsman ten, for a squire forty, and for a noble fifty kopas. Does not God esteem a pious peasant more than a wicked squire?
Friday, September 02, 2011
MORE OLD TIME RELIGION
JOHN HUS (1369-1415) was a early reformer of the Catholic Church who was essentially murdered by the Catholic hierarchy in Rome, as Matthew Spinka's biography makes very clear. The biography also notes a old custom that I think I first came across in James Burke's CONNECTIONS that Hus condemned (Spinka, p. 207):
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