HUMR 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Political Repression, Black Death, Feudalism
19 Jul 2015
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Gender/sexuality: the witch hunts: witch hunt, an intense effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonest, or the like, usually based on a slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence, many examples of witch hunt. Anti-muslim views in the states: contemporary witch hunts, witch hunts take place in ghana, brazil, etc generally more third world countries, usually women, often older, usually poor, rural, children in some cases. What links these women, they are from lower classes: easy targets, unable to defend themselves, vulnerable. Feudalism in crisis: feudal system can no longer reproduce itself, heretical movement, rise of the heretics. Groups of rebels who disapproved the church hierarchy. Seen as the first movement for women: women played quite a large part of the. Movement: there is a challenge of the idea of birthright for kings, authorities panicked at the thought of the heretical movement, the spread of the black plague caused great panic, many workers died causing a drop in workers.
