Chapter 18 Vocab- Life In The Age Of Expansion Flashcards
Carnival
The few days of revelry in Catholic countries that preceded Lent and that included drinking, masquerading, dancing, and rowdy spectacles that upset the established order. ( Mardi Gras)
Charivari
Degrading public rituals used by village communities to police personal behavior and maintain moral standards.
Community Controls
A pattern of cooperation and common action in a traditional village that sought to uphold the economic, social, and moral stability of the closely knit community.
Consumer Revolution
The wide-ranging growth in consumption and new attitudes toward consumer goods that emerged in the cities of northwestern Europe in the second half of the 18th century.
Extended vs. Nuclear Family
Extended families had relatives, and in the 18th century, a nuclear family lived apart from their families, similar to today’s nuclear families, which is a group consisting of parents and their children with no other relatives.
Jansenism
A sect of Catholicism originating with Cornelius Jansen that emphasized the heavy weight of original sin and accepted the doctrine of predestination; it was outlawed by the pope as heresy.
Just Price
The idea that prices should be fair, protecting both consumers and producers, and that they should be imposed by government decree if necessary.
Illegitimacy
Illegitimacy is having kids when you are not married, and there was an explosion of this when young adults had sexual activity but were not married,and when the single mother gets pregnant.
Methodists
Members of a Protestant revival movement started by John Wesley, so called because they were so methodical in their devotion.
Pietism
A Protestant revival movement in the early 18th century Germany and Scandinavia that emphasized a warm and emotional religion, the priesthood of all believers, and the power of Christian rebirth in everyday affairs.
Popular Culture
Come back to this one. Basic literacy was increasing, people began to read for entertainment. There was also an emergence of a fledgling consumer culture=cheap reproductions of something, lower classes could afford it.
Wet-Nursing
A widespread and flourishing business in the 18th century in which women were paid to breast-feed other women’s babies.
Blood sports
Events such as bullbaiting and cockfighting that involved inflicting violence and bloodshed on animals and that were popular with the 18th century European masses.
