Schools of thought
Who is the mountain guy?
Carr
Which case study focused on limiting what people think, learn and talk about based on government political views?
Hong Kong
What are the main ideas of origins?
Ergot, Mass Hysteria, Geography, Religion, Socio-economic, Attention, Racism, Gossip, Revenge
Who are the main two historians for gender?
Reis and MBN
“an ever-diminishing form of a self-evaporating pond of pure academy.”
Schama
What is kind of history did Gibbon write?
Judgemental History
Windschuttle and Reynolds - which one is black armband and which one is white blindfold?
Windschuttle: White Blindfold
Reynolds: Black Armband
What is the name of Starkey's book?
Devil in Massachusetts
Who were the only two men accused of witchcraft in Salem?
George Burrows and Giles Corey
“Mary Matossian attempted to revive the ergotism hypothesis”
Spanos
What is Bede's moral teaching?
Good examples = good people
Bad examples = not bad people
Charlottesville, Virginia and the statues are of Robert E. Lee
How did Miller change the stories of the trials in 'The Crucible'?
- Sexist
- Used metaphor for McCarthyism
- Portrayed Abigail as a sexual harlot
What did MBN find to be missing between 1692 - 1693?
Letters between two brothers that existed before and after this period
"Nationalism is modern but it invests for itself in history and traditions"
Hobsawn
Who aimed to write world history?
Ranke
What are the main issues with the Irving/Lipstadt Case Study?
- Survivor's Memory
- Non-Historian judging history
- Opinions and speculation used - Did Irving believe what he was saying
- Objectivity
Who do Boyer and Nissenbaum claim to make a significant proportion of witchcraft accusations and who were they against?
Made against the Anti-Parris (associated with the Porters) people by the Pro-Parris (associated with the Putnams)
What was the main idea in Reis' first chapter of her book?
- Women heeding the ministers words more than men
- Women internalising things that are preached
“...a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts…”
Carr
Name one historian from each school of though from term one (NO POMO)
Thucydides and Herodotus
Carr
Bede and Gibbon
Bloch, Braudel and Ladurie
Ranke
How is 'Historical Memory' often expressed according to Katherine Hite?
“collective memory,” “social memory,” or for political scientists, “the politics of memory,”
What are he issues with the Ergot theory?
- Used different geography
- Used different disease
- Used different people
- Did not account for age and sec being skewed in certain areas
Who were Reis' predecessors and what were their ideas?
Matilda Gage - Comprehension – we need to substitute the word “woman” for “witch”
Carol Karlsen - Some women were singled out because of their potentially powerful status as inheritors of money and property.
“[Ranke] is inviting us to put aside our present values, to avoid judging, to attempt to recreate the events of the past. And yet he adds that, at some point, we should be able to detect the intentions of God.”
John Warren