CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iron Maiden, Roman Law, The Burning Times
22 Aug 2016
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The early middle ages & the demonic perspective (also looking at the roman empires, which is not a part of the middle ages) The demonic perspective emerges at this time as well as in the roman. Cause = supernatural: this is especially related to the fear of the supernatural/unknown. We didn"t have explanations as to why bad things happened. Instead of finding rational responses they looked to the unknown. Catholic church took hold of this fear in order to explain deviance. Frame was based in the form of the government/church: church organized what was seen through the demonic perspective. Subsistence societies (look to survival: people were very dependant on one another in terms of food and products, agriculturally based, anything that was against that basis was seen as deviance. The demonic perspective: guilt public. Punishment couldn"t be applied without the determination of guilt. Had to be determined before the punishment was carried out: church administration.
