The accidental death of a bishopric
We are heading into Baza. In 2003 21,000 people lived here. It is a dead diocese. I have a slight problem with the term ‘Reconquest.’ It sort of suggests that the Islamic Invasion of Spain was just that, an Invasion. A couple of years later the plucky chaps from Asturias have nipped down, everyone is RC again and all the better for it. Even if you ignore the fact that these parts of the world had had a different religion for 700 years. 700 years ago Edward II was trying to patch up his relationship with his misses and the damn weather was the thing that people worried about killing large percentages of the population, not the Black Death. 700 years changes people. I am of an age when I am getting memes saying how good the olde dayes were - playing out, games of conkers, much higher rates of violence death on the road and comedians wondering if they’ve been cancelled or just the taste of things has moved on. I suppose, with music, it is more instant a...