The St Brice’s Day Massacre of 1002
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Benjamin savill: The massacre of ten o two is still a kind of a scar on public memory. He says the idea was to control the meaning in such a way that it doesn't look like violence, doesn't like a massacre. A hundred years later, this is still an issue for people and they are not saying what happened. Benjamin's article remembering saint bricticus has been published by the journal of ecclesiastical history.
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