End of Witch accusations Flashcards
1
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Reasons for decline - Legal Procedures
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- centralised control - 1587 Ardennes trial Parlement intervened - 1624 edict - review ex.
- 1532 Carolina - Uni’s review trials
- Torture = unreliable - banned France (1788) / need for better evidence - SE / kids X
2
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Reasons for Decline - Religious Change
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- Prot. theologians = waning belief in superstition
- Balthasar Bekker - Calvinist pastor - attacked beleifs in 4 vol. treatise ‘the bw.’
3
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Reasons for decline - social developments
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- 1550-1650 = end in pandemics - real wage - econ growth
4
Q
Scientific Revolution - Natural Philosophers
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- Copernicus - Maths
- Kepler - Astronomy
- Galilei
- rise in empiricism - Locke
5
Q
Scientific Revolution - Gresham college
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1597 - RS = 1660 - Royal Charter 1662
- NP
6
Q
Decriminalisation
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- France = 1682 - ex = 1625
- England = 1736 - ex = 1685
- Prussia = 1714
6
Q
England - decline through Lit
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- Thomas Ady 1656
- John Webster 1677
7
Q
England - Demon Drummer
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RS denied trial - NP = refute witch beleifs - 1661
8
Q
England Legal decline
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- 1737 - woman swum = ringleader punished
9
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Withdrawal of the Elite
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- Christians become reserved / less radical
- educated auth.
- secure social fabric - maintain SQ
