Firebrand Books

During the Dark Ages, unlanded men found their way to property, power, and prestige as Bishops, priests and clerics of the Roman Catholic Church, systematically waging war against tiny landholders, midwives, keepers of verbal histories, naturopathic healers and doctors, as well as Jews and any others in the way of the expansion of the iron grip of the Church, witting or otherwise. The sinews and bones of huge-flung Celtic civilizations of Europe were casualties of that war, a holocaust that modern scholars call the Inquisition, that feminist scholars name the Burning Times.