HIST 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: J. P. Dutta, Escapism
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L e c t u r e 1. The history of mysticism, heresy, magic and witchcraft as a form of cultural and popular history. B) apollonian and dionysian strains in western thought. Certain gifts from the lord: land, peasants who work the land ~ military service in exchange. System does not allow for order, it is a violent world. Religion itself is a compromise (slowly but surely) Begin to concentrate power into individual hands. Does not like the pseudo-world cause they want order. Development of the idea of spaces and border. War: provides rulers with incredible amounts of power. Emergence of kings and the power of kings / bureaucrats. By the 13th century: heretical movements get on the way. Occurrences within the church: the creation of identity and discourses of difference. Because i"m not the other ~ because i"m not the jew . Discourses of identity, nationalism, nativism = discourses against orders.
