Criminal History, 188
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When Christians have to endure what they usually do to others…
Anyone who reads the Annales Vedastini, the yearbooks of a monk from the monastery of St Vaast near Arras, which were only discovered in the middle of the 18th century, is confronted with this misery again and again, monotonously, certainly, grammatically pathetically. There is always talk of the ‘devastation and murderous fires’ of the pagan robbers, of their ‘thirst for human blood’. Day and night they kill ‘the Christian people’, they set fire to ‘monasteries and churches of God’, and they ‘continue their raids in their usual manner’.
All the suffering and misery that Christians otherwise brought to other countries, century after century, they experienced themselves. And, of course, their complaints never end. Plundering, devastation, enslavement, extermination everywhere. Everywhere: monasteries, churches, hostage murders, people fleeing and being massacred. Thus ‘in the year of the Lord 882 the Normans destroyed monasteries and churches to the ground, killed the servants of the divine word by the sword or by hunger or sold them across the sea and killed the inhabitants of the country without meeting resistance’. Thus, ‘in the year of our Lord 884: But the Normans did not stop killing, destroying the churches, tearing down the walls and burning the villages. In all the streets lay the corpses of clergy, nobles and other laymen, women, young people and infants.’ Or 885: ‘Then the Normans began to rage again, thirsting for fire and murder.’