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Pop quiz what's the most important book written in the 14th century AD?
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Date: January 30th, 2026 8:28 PM Author: Jared Baumeister (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49634538) |
Date: January 30th, 2026 8:29 PM Author: woah (hitler did nothing wrong) Chaucer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49634539) |
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Date: January 30th, 2026 8:40 PM Author: Jared Baumeister Was that translated into other languages, banned by kings, and read secretly by European intellectuals for the next 300 years? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49634557) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:57 PM Author: Jared Baumeister This man, whose influence was felt throughout the whole period of two hundred years between the appearance of [REDACTED] and the advent of Martin Luther, vanishes from contemporary notice as completely as if he had never put pen to paper. His identity as a man is lost in the one great work by which he has lived. [REDACTED] interests the modern student in virtue both of its contents and its methods. What distinguishes it from its immediate predecessors and also from much of the product of the century and more following is its note of modernity. It is the obvious expression of opinion of an individual, fortified it is true, by abundant if not superabundant reference to authorities, but at every point revealing independence of all authority. Frankly the work of an advocate, expressly intended to support the cause of one of the great parties in a world struggle, it seeks to bring this advocacy of a party into relation with great general principles. [REDACTED] has no hesitation in using the first person. "I will now prove," "I think," "I have demonstrated," are frequent phrases. Everywhere one feels the personality of a thinking man. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645081) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:58 PM Author: Hmong Us who cares why do you have a gay crush on karlstack you fucking queer boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645088) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 9:01 PM Author: Hello, World! Aquinas' work, based on the OP'S use of "AD" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645098) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 9:02 PM Author: Hmong Us ur responding to a gay boomer lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645101) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 9:03 PM Author: Hello, World! be gone, BCE/CE shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645110) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 9:04 PM Author: Hmong Us i hate libs. i hate kikes. i hate niggers. not a lib but a queer unc is a queer unc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645115) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 10:23 PM Author: Jared Baumeister Nope (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645315) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 10:45 PM Author: Hello, World! Yes. And if the question really was "what I, NASAM, think it is", not what it actually is by any measure that counts, the answer is no one cares and 99% here want you to leave. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645346) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 10:23 PM Author: Jared Baumeister https://i.imgur.com/aVdXnPK.png (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645316) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 10:35 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the Divine Comedy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645325) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 10:40 PM Author: Jared Baumeister Nope, it's easy to find copies of that one. The book I'm talking about is still too dangerous for popular consumption, as far as I can tell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645332) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:33 PM Author: Rainier Wolfcastle IF NOBODY HAS HEARD OF IT IT IS BY DEFINITION NOT THE MOST “IMPORTANT” BOOK OF ANYTHING YOU RETARDED TRYHARD POSEUR. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645428) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:39 PM Author: Jared Baumeister It was influential as fuck. It totally transformed Europe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645437) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 10:40 PM Author: Jared Baumeister PS they are still hiding this book from you. Copies of it are nearly impossible to find online. I had to use foreign search engines to find a PDF of an English translation. Physical copies cost $39 for paperback on Amazon, $109 for hardcover. For a SEVEN HUNDRED YEAR-OLD BOOK. I guarantee YOU never read it.
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:15 PM Author: potluck in no particular order, I’m guessing you are trying to say some work of Eckhart or Wycliffe or Ockham. all of which would be bad answers (it’s clearly Dante) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645392) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:21 PM Author: Hello, World! On the assumption the most important thing is the Truth and the second most important ting is the search for the Truth, it is still Summa. What do you mean by important? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645405) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:26 PM Author: potluck summa is from 13th c (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645418) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:29 PM Author: Hello, World! You are right, shame on me, Dante then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645423) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:31 PM Author: Jared Baumeister It's none of those. This guy's book was considered more toxic than hardcore pornography at the time it was published, and it just as hard to suppress. For 300 years popes and kings wanted every copy of this book destroyed, yet it was preserved, translated, and covertly disseminated among European intellectuals (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645426) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:55 PM Author: Hello, World! Is it Sephardic or Ashkenazic? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645451) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:38 PM Author: Jared Baumeister Here's another way to think about this book: it was a much bigger FUCK YOU to the church than anything Martin Luther ever wrote. The protestant reformation made it a lot safer to challenge papal authority than it was at the time this book was published, but it was also intellectually lazy. We ended up with protestantism, and eventually secular nationalism and even "democracy" (if you think that's what this book is even about (it is)), but it was all very dumbed down compared to what this dood wrote in the 1300s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5828962&forum_id=2,#49645435) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:44 PM Author: Jared Baumeister Here's another way to think about: for 300 years, anyone in Europe who wanted to read a book - any book - was pretty much stuck reading the Bible. If you wanted to read anything else you had to be somewhere like the University of Paris, and even then you needed a damn good excuse to be reading anything except the Bible.
This book was like the Bible inverted. It was the LAST thing you wanted anyone to see on your bookshelf. If you had a copy of this book you had better be illiterate or you were asking to be killed on the spot. So of course EVERYONE wanted to read it. Not only was it not the Bible, it gave the recipe for impeaching popes and kangz and pretty much anyone who claimed religious authority. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:55 PM Author: Jared Baumeister OK I'll give another hint: it was written at the behest of a Germanic kang who didn't enjoy taking orders from the Pope. War was brewing and this Germanic kang was trying to justify his disobedience to the Pope, so the kang commissioned a man to write a tract that could be sent to the Pope to hopefully avoid war. The author was like the Dan Bongino of his time, just saying what the kang wanted said.
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