1. Christianity v. Islam
Pope at Avignon stopped all sessions of court,locked himself in a room,allowed no one too approach him and left a fir burning at all times." ... For instance, Jewish law compels one to wash their hands many times a day, one could not eat food without washing first their hands and bath on the Sabbath. ... "(334,Spielvogel) The Black Plague may have killed off medieval society but it gave birth to the beginning of industrial consumer society....
He has been identified as the " first major European thinker in modern times to embrace democratic republicanism as the highest and most rational form of political organisation,"" in which all men were equal. ... The Jewish-Islamic Medieval mystical tradition also approached this. ...