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wanderlustlover

Ariadne’s Thread; Chapter I Questions

Nov 27, 2010 13:49

I may become a one-woman equality voice in this class.
For gender and history and society and religion.

I wonder if that is going to get me in trouble, since this book is hard slanted in first chapter even. I never was good with standing by silent during grandstanding, extremism or white-washing.

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ceitfianna November 27 2010, 20:01:22 UTC

Thank you for sharing this. Your generosity with the world always amazes me and its sad how often society creates these boxes that try to make us be against each other.

wanderlustlover November 27 2010, 21:49:45 UTC

*hugs* Thank you.

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rymenhild November 27 2010, 21:45:42 UTC

I was thinking "hmm," too. "Witch hunts", insofar as they existed, weren't medieval at all; they took place between the 15th and 18th centuries (in the Renaissance/Early Modern period). In the Middle Ages, heretics were indeed punished, but not often by burning, and there's very little medieval evidence regarding witches per se. I found a fairly reliable account (popular history, without a bibliography, but it matches my knowledge fairly well) by a pagan historian here.

(I'm not sure if you knew, Amanda, but I'm a graduate student in medieval English literature.)

Good luck on your one-woman mission -- it looks important!

wanderlustlover November 27 2010, 21:48:31 UTC

I love you. For all of this. I want to jump up and down at my class point at here and go "THIS OMG THIS HERE READ BE SMARTER RESEARCH" because making blanket claims and teaching the next generation of any religion to make unfounded blanket claims is just asking for it.

wanderlustlover November 27 2010, 21:46:32 UTC

Agreed!

It's just so pointed in this class and it's making me make some faces. Because it's making the most general of statement with the most specific of biased opinions in places. (And these were just the questions at the end of the chapter of required reading in it, too.)

I'm kind of hoping the rest of the book gets better, since it's a class running the next twelve months.

neenie November 27 2010, 22:53:16 UTC

We'll see what happens. =T

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wanderlustlover November 27 2010, 23:43:00 UTC

Yeah, I agree. And I knew it would be a little out of date when I signed up for it, so I guess I'm just still figuring out my first steps, since I'll be in this for a long while yet.

mardimmd November 28 2010, 02:33:57 UTC

Maybe you could write the new book someday? All that reading & writing practice for that MA must be good for something practical