After the european dark ages? For whichever reason, aftershocks of dissolved roman empire, volcanic winter, misharvests, bubonic plague, all of it? Which didn't happen at that magnitude elsewhere, at the time.
I feel so enlightened by what the unholy Chyrrch did to Baruch Spinoza, Giordano Bruno, and countless others.
Burning witches at the stake must have felt so good and warm in the cold of the marketplaces of stinking towns.