HIST 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Charivari, Spectral Evidence, Malleus Maleficarum
12 Nov 2018
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Jane kent: offence: charged with a religious offence, verdict not guilty. June 1, 1682: women about 60 years old was indicated for witch craft and using several diabolic arts, whereby she compassed the death of one elizabeth chamblet, a girl about 5 years old. The elizabethan village: filled with malice and hatred, marital discord, unfaithfulness, pitiful spying, the only thing that brought people together was to harass and persecute a local witch, christian church split with protestant and catholic. Entering into the early modern mind (1500-1700: leisure time , sense of humour , hobbies and interests , violence was a part of everyday life, laughing at or being laughed at is an emotional practice. It is socialized in condition from different generations: entertainers were low class, dressed in rags, poor. Some wore masks symbolized anti-semitism the difference between the catholics and the jewish. To exert their power they would ostracize jews and.
