SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Christianization, Misogyny
3 Feb 2017
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Started in the mid 1400s depending on the country. The witch hunt was not during the medieval times. Kicked off by a statement by a pope witches are real! . * note that the film has a strong feminist voice/tone. The end of the witch hunts came with the start of the scientific revolution. Our ideas about witches are largely influenced by the renaissance period, the witch craze era. We have been propagandized to fear woman"s power and the word witch . Woman who practiced rituals we were unfamiliar with were named witches, witch doctors, shamans. Witch : word origins to bend or shape . The christianization of europe caused the loss of many lives. 85% of those killed for the crime of witchcraft were women. Women/men used to work side by side. Traditions helped them live their lives, based on action, not belief. Converting pagans wanted a goddess mary was often referred to as a goddess.
