Ideas
He was considered to be an intelligent, erudite and charismatic speaker. He expressed his ideas in a series of letters he wrote to the Apostolics from 1300 to 1307; his letters were found by the Inquisition and are deeply analyzed (and confuted) in the paper "Additamentum ad Historiam fratris Dulcini, haeretici", written by an Inquisitor.
His main ideas were the following:
- Opposition to the ecclesiastical hierarchy and return of the Church to its original ideals of humility and poverty
- Opposition to the feudal system
- Human liberation from any restraint and from entrenched power
- Organization of one equal society, of mutual aid and respect, holding property in common
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