01:510:317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anti-Clericalism
2 Feb 2017
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Women: viewed as ckle, irrational, need men , prate woman seen as smart and brave (from day 6, story 7, adultery is bad/criminal, nuns w/masetto, no ferando"s wife. Clergy: no higher moral standard than laity (those who are not clergy, clergy imperfect ok or not, critique of sense of superiority, wicked lives of pope and cardinals. Religion: good regular christians - abraham, ferando"s wife is pious, sin not punished - except elisabeth + lover, + godfather , purgatory real? yes and no. Frame/context: society upside down jobs/social roles, painters: calandrine, giotto. Monday, january 23, 2017: merchant: rufolo,giannotto, is"s brothers, lawyers: 1, innkeeper, peasants: masello, ferando, poor citydwellers: godfather and friend, nobler: baronci, prato woman and husband, nathan. General: little sense of class identity - more individualistic, mugello and mugnone are outside of florence, sienna is south of florence, anti-clerical feeling, dichotomy between courtly setting + lewd stories - reality in between, importance of appearance.
