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Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Barbara Tuchman
Males, Female, Sin
Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.211, Random House

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Barbara Tuchman
Capitalist Economy, Usury, Sin
Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.66, Penguin UK

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

Barbara Tuchman
Sex, Matter, Sin
Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.547, Random House

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