HISTORY 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Apocalypticism, Immanence, Tertullian
7 Jun 2017
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1 = time of large scale warfare. Holy roman empire (1531-1555); peace of augsburg (1555) New ice age : cold climate, poor crops. Supernatural world is immanent; present in human world, powerful. Polarization of cosmos (good and evil); ideology of contrariety (stuart clark) Apocalypticism: coming judgment day; book of revelation (new testament) Mostly women accused (joan kelly gadol, christina larner) The sentence of god on this sex of yours lives in this age. You are the unsealer of that forbidden tree on account of your desert even the son of god had to die . Women that behaved in unvirtuous ways (sharp tongue) Women as economic burdens: decline in female wage earners (16th c); rise in single women. Persecution stimulated by spread of roman low by 16th c, treat witchcraft as a criminal act. Heresy, sodomy, witchcraft = sources of political disorder; treason (french jurist, jean.
