HISTORY 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Human Nature, Class Conflict, Mark Bloch
12 Dec 2020
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Important issue in understanding this period as a time of crisis: jesus would come back to earth with an army to defeat the forces of evil led by. Antichrist: must remember that when they are looking around, they believed that something was disrupting the natural order (whether or not it was the end of times, dealing with primarily christians, muslims and jews. 3: common that they would turn to sacred texts to understand what was happening. Historical interpretations: a) signs of disorder, examples of violence were interpreted in terms that understood it as interconnected to other types of change in the world. Understanding change meant delving into issues that may disturb the cosmic order: civil wars = most devastating manifestations of disorder. Need to be restrained by a strong state. Supported by a strong monarchy in england: hobbes took his ideas from the english civil wars, reflected on what happened when monarchy was weakened by conflict.
