Quiz #3 Reformation my notes

29^th Feb – LEAP DAYYY

It is not a coincidence that the witch trails and the reformation happen hand in hand

Maleficum

-       aka witchcraft (can used interchangeablty) an act that an individual did, it becomes an identity, it not just what somebody does but it is something that a person is

-      Voyeurism - the practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity. "internet sites dedicated to the act of voyeurism" enjoyment from seeing the pain or distress of others. "township visits are bordering on voyeurism"

Demonology & Demonologists

-       (people who wrote about this, loads of people start to write texts about the devil, and demonology

-      Manuels (texts) say: sex with demons, kill babies etc.

-      The witch is said to be a person who works on the behalf of Satan and against Christianity

Malleus Malecficarum – (in response to the papal bull on the previous slide) (?)

-      Written by Heinrich Kramer + Jacob Sprenger

-      How to spot a witch – what they look like, smell like

-      Extremely misogynistic

Geneva Consistory & Small Council

Roman Inquisition (established 1542)

(skipped 5^th 7^th March) – knowt the readings  - demonology stuff

12^th March

Global Reformation

-      Reformation took place everywhere, Christians and Christianity emergers everywhere

-      Third Wave of the Reformation- 1^st: kings 2. Commoners and women 3. Nicholas T. quote on slide

-      1492: Columbus arrives in the Americas, and ya know

-      There was never a time where Europe was secluded from the world

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Doctrine of Discovery - provided a framework for Christian explorers, in the name of their sovereign, to lay claim to territories uninhabited by Christians

-      3 papal bulls (on slide)

-      Intolerance of peoples/lands that were non-Christian

Catholic Reformation/Counter Reformation

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Tersa of Aliva

Jesuit – (slides)

Missions and Missionaries

-      Losing numbers in Europe so they sent Jesuits to “recruit” souls elsewhere

Syncretism and Syncretic Christianity

14^th March

Jesuits

-      Catholic monstanic order created in reaction to the protestants to defend catholic and recoupe the lost

-      Estabhlished school and missionary centres around the world in order to convert people to Catholicism

Centres of European activity in Asia: Goa, Macau, Manila, & Nagasaki

-      Portuguese (Goa + Macau) and the Spanish (Philippines  

Namban/Nanban Trade Period (1543-1614)

-      Portuguese and Japanese

-      Only the P. were allowed to trade and convert J. in this trading period

-      J viewed P. as barbarians

-      At this time- Biggest J. religion at the time - Buddhism and Shintoism: (animals and places contain spiritual entities) emperors were thought to be direct descendants from Shintoism entities

Sengoku Period (ca. 1467-1568)

-      Long period of civil war with decentralized power (there is no single centralized authority that makes decisions on behalf of all the parties. Instead each party, also called a peer, makes local autonomous decisions towards its individual goals which may possibly conflict with those of other peers)

Daimyo (feudal lords)

-      Lords who tried to suppress the peasant riots

-      (in feudal Japan) one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.

-      Regional lords who controlled local territories and had their own group of loyal samurai. All daimyo shared an equal title, but some were more powerful than others.

Shogun & Shogunate (military leader & de-facto ruler) (usually hereditary) 

-      Rules over the daimyo

-      They didn’t have that much power

Emperor (shogun)

-      They are divine leaders

-      The highest-ranking samurai or general who received the title of Shogun for some great victory on behalf of the emperor.

Jesuits came and were able to convert them quickly because the J. wanted to trade with them and it’s easier when you share a faith

Or they were genuinely interested in Christianity like the idea of a paradise, etc.

Three Great Unifiers (on the slides)

-      I don’t want any more Jesuits in J.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Expulsion of Missionaries Edict, 1587

San Felipe Incident, 1596

Edo Period (1603-1867)

Tokugawa shogunate (1600-186T)

Skipped on the 19^th  - knowt the slides

No Class on the 21^st