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1978 Education of women, 15th to 18th centuries
1979 Reign of Terror, French Revolution
1980 Witchcraft Scare
1981 Class Attitudes toward Industrialization
1982 Child-rearing in GB 16th to 18th c.
1983 Flemings and Walloons
1984 German Aircraft Industry
1985 Juvenile Crime and Treatment in GB
1986 Sudan Crisis (1884-1885)
1987 Literacy in Old Regime France
1988 Gin Act in G.B.; 18th c. social history
1989 Women’s Status/Suffrage in late 19th/early 20th c.
1990 Spanish Civil War
1991 Anti-slavery during the Enlightenment and French Revolution
1992 Pan-Slavism
1993 Renaissance Education …show more content…
Her mind has no womanly weakness, her perseverance is equal to that of a man, and her memory long keeps what it quickly picks up. She talks French and Italian as well as she does English, and has often talked to me readily and well in Latin, moderately in Greek
Roger Ascham, describing his student, the future Queen Elizabeth 1, 1549
Document Group B: REFORMATION AND CATHOLIC REFORMATION
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“Men have broad shoulders and narrow hips, and accordingly they possess intelligence. Women have narrow shoulders and broad hips. Women ought to stay at home; the way they were created indicated this, for they have broad hips and a wide fundament to sit upon (to keep house and bear and raise children).”
Martin Luther,
Table Talk, 1566
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To learn essential doctrine... there is no need for the women or the artisan to take time out from their work and read the Old and New Testament . . Then they’ll want to dispute about it and give their opinion . . and they can’t help falling into error. Women must be silent in Church, as Saint Paul …show more content…
You may refer to historical facts and developments not mentioned in the documents and assess the reliability of the documents as historical sources where relevant to your answer. In constructing your answer DO NOT simply summarize, paraphrase, or repeat the contents of the documents; instead use the documents in a historical context and draw conclusions from them. Construct a coherent essay that integrates the analysis of documents into a treatment of the topic. The Question
Using the following documents, identify and analyze at least three major reasons for the persecution of individuals as witches in Europe from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. [Historical setting: The witch craze lasted from about 1480 to 1700. This was the period of the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the consolidation of national governments. Witches were persecuted in most of Europe, but the trials were concentrated in southwestern Germany, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Poland, and parts of France. The total number of accused witches who were tried exceeded 100,000. Torture was used to extract confessions in many areas, but not in others; in England the trials were generally conducted without the use of torture.]
Document Group A: THE TESTIMONY OF ACCUSED WITCHES AND