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MILITARY ORDERS
Heathen-
dom un-
profitable
So told
D. Rodrigo
a canker of heathendom which should
spread till at last all the work should be to
do again. Heathendom was to be made
unprofitable, the city was to be razed and
the inhabitants sold into slavery. It is the
logic of Torquemada: Arnaut of Narbonne
was stubborn and Roderick of Toledo had
the Pope’s orders and had to support him.
So it was done. But the Archbishop was
set sternly against looting: and when a
great pestilence fell upon the land he saw
God’s judgement in it: “By luxuria and
dishonesty with captive Mooresses,” says
Andrada bluntly.
The plague was terrible: so that one
man could not give another water, not a
vassal to his lord nor a friend to his friend.
Here, in the chronicle, the curtain falls,
with, for epilogue, processions in Toledo
cathedral. Then every man gets home
somehow to his own land.
This is official history, written indeed
originally by one who was there, a great
HISPANIC NOTES
MILITARY ORDERS
Heathen-
dom un-
profitable
So told
D. Rodrigo
a canker of heathendom which should
spread till at last all the work should be to
do again. Heathendom was to be made
unprofitable, the city was to be razed and
the inhabitants sold into slavery. It is the
logic of Torquemada: Arnaut of Narbonne
was stubborn and Roderick of Toledo had
the Pope’s orders and had to support him.
So it was done. But the Archbishop was
set sternly against looting: and when a
great pestilence fell upon the land he saw
God’s judgement in it: “By luxuria and
dishonesty with captive Mooresses,” says
Andrada bluntly.
The plague was terrible: so that one
man could not give another water, not a
vassal to his lord nor a friend to his friend.
Here, in the chronicle, the curtain falls,
with, for epilogue, processions in Toledo
cathedral. Then every man gets home
somehow to his own land.
This is official history, written indeed
originally by one who was there, a great
HISPANIC NOTES