HIST111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tertullian, Analytical Skill, Universal Access To Education
3 Mar 2016
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Legal - secondary legal status, your right to trial was if you could win in combat. Increasingly women can serve as a witness, write wills, etc in court. There was also suspicion however that the women would just say what their husbands told them to say in court. Women were seen as the original source of sin. Only men were made in god"s image. Even sex within marriage was seen as bad. Saw women as physically inferior to men. The period of the next 200 years, things get better and worse. Increasingly women"s status decreases as men began to rediscover roman law. Church needs to get out of education, and the state should intervene. What is natural is sometimes a problem to begin with reason. A lot of talk of reform and progress. Best place to be a women during the time was london. Of the businesses were owned by women.
