SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Secondary Sector Of The Economy, Evil Eye, The Burning Times
7 Apr 2014
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Video: the burning times witch burning in europe. Period of moving away from magical belief more into scientific reasoning. Englightment thinkers, even when skeptical (like hobbes), thought that prosecution was key because it created social control. A virgin couldn"t be a witch same with pregnant woman. Women who were against feudal power = women who swore, posing a challenge or threat to the church would be considered to be a witch: women who had sex without being married. Mary was understood as a goddess figure: people were dedicated to mary. Two kinds of religion: catholic religion, religion of the goddess (spirits) 15th century: the old order was changing: women had be physicians of people they understood the anatomy of people, priests fumed as the women would receive honour at being healers" or. Testimony and jealousy of male doctors in regards to female doctors that sent many women to their deaths.
