April 2025 – Cornerstone

Eighth Century Germans

We normally associate morality with Christianity. But Saint Boniface, who brought Christianity to Germany, described the pre-Christian morality of the Germans in the mid-eighth century: In old Saxony if a virgin in her father’s house, or a married woman under the protection of her husband, should be guilty of adultery, they burn her, strangled byContinue reading “Eighth Century Germans”