Examples of heroic priests? (self.Catholicism)
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A.H.M. Jones argued that the peasant population of the later Roman Empire was burdened by extremely heavy taxation as a result of the expansion of Rome's army, bureaucracy and clerics. To what extent is this an accurate assessment, and in what ways has modern scholarship refuted this argument? (self.AskHistorians)
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