A Perplexing Group in Medieval Europe Got Strong in the 1300s
“Whatever the eye sees and covets, let the hand grasp it.”
No, that isn’t a passage above the front door of Jeffrey Epstein’s residence on Little Saint James.
It’s a popular saying of a medieval sect known as the “Brethren of the Free Spirit,” which has long been regarded, according to historian Norman Cohn, as “one of th…
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