HSTR 385A Lecture 1: HSTR 385A
7 Feb 2017
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Friday, january 6, 2017: people believed witchcraft to be possible. How europeans understood/interpreted witchcraft was often very. Not as many women burned as witches in the middle ages: was still a crime, people were executed, but not nearly as persecuted, not a gendered crime, legislation against witches existed since ancient times (romans) Anti-semitism connected to witchcraft persecution: many themes appropriated from persecution of jews to persecution of witches. Persecution of jews persecution of heretics persecution of gay men (13th century: evidence of the growing persecution of nonconformity, persecuting gay men caused many problems because some of them belonged to powerful families. Had been illegal for a long time, but not persecuted. At the time, lesbianism wasn"t really considered a. Magicians aren"t quite the same as witches possibility/concept by persecuting authorities: usually male, claimed to have special esoteric knowledge, not accused (in the middle ages) of being involved with satan.
