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Not at the start, no - but then when those people had to hide in Siberia (in this specific example) for some generations without anyone who knew what kind of sense the rules were supposed to make ...

You haven't read up enough on that, then. Any number of things were clbuttified as "pagan" and thus banned back when, all over the world.

Duh, the traditional chimneyless sauna was useful for both of those and still they were considered a harmful pagan influence... that for one example where it wasn't successful.

In greater danger were old "pagan" forms of keeping records. Anyone here know how to read a quipu?

No hope of that.

Of course it was. But does that detail make any difference? I thought we'd seen already how the political nutcases are just as bad as the religious nutcases.

I don't know, somehow I don't think that the religious zealots would be all that drawn to the bureaucratic side of things...

It may help if the church is in the subordinate position here. See the kings bossing the church elders around, above. That could easily be extended to a similar relationship between the local level nobility and the local clergy - an arrangement not at all uncommon back in the day.

Um. You mean the way it was in Rome, or the way a lot of monarchies have this "King, by the grace of God" kind of thing?

As a practical matter in the European setting, that was the reason. But, the way how this came to be so, is that it was effectively a political decision made by the mobs that overran Rome.

I have thought of it, and I don't get quite the same results. It doesn't seem to me that they'd necessarily have been any less inclined to do that work than the others.

Sort of like in Europe (for most of history), then? ;-)

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