HIS-1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heinrich Kramer, Jacob Sprenger, Charivari
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Challenge to long-standing traditions: social relationships, communal calendar, spiritual safety nets. Urge for community purification: from within, from above. Elite or high culture: upper class, literate, international, art patrons, tolerant of popular culture. Popular or low culture: peasant class, oral, traditional, expression of local belief systems. Popular religion (mixture of catholicism and local pre-christian traditions) Change in traditional social obligations (e. g. , master/servant relationships, charity, hospitality ) *both authorities and common folk believed that the supernatural was real and that satan was active in the world. magical practices. White magic: healing, identifying magical activity, divination (foretelling the future), finding lost or stolen goods. Black magic (witchcraft): maleficium (causing harm with magic, pact with satan (crime for which witch was executed) *dr. faustus: sold his soul to the devil to learn everything. *cunningfolk: white magic, ask to heal illness caused by black witchcraft. astrology vs. astronomy astrology is more about the relationship between the stars and human life and human events.
