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Focus Question: What factors
led to the rise and decline of the witchcraft panics? |
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Approximately how many people were sentenced to death for harmful and
diabolical witchcraft during this period? What popular belief was
necessary as an essential foundation of the great witch hunts? Approximately
what percentage of these people were women? What factors played a role
in ending the witchcraft trail craze?
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Focus Question: How was the intellectual
life of Europe changed in the post-reformation period? |
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How did the different writers (Hobbes, Locke, Cervantes, Shakespeare,
and Pascal) react to this "time of changing attitudes? What was the central
insight did Cervantes want to give to his readers? What qualities
made Shakespeare a great writer? Who was the most controversial thinker
of the seventeenth century? Why did religious leaders condemn Spinoza's
work Ethics? What is the key to Hobbes's political philosophy?
How did Hobbes view the state of nature? What were Pascal's religious
ideas? What was Pascal's wager? How did the political ideas
of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke differ? How did Europe compare to other
world societies during the Renaissance and Reformation period? How
was Europe unique in its development? |
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"cunning folk"
diobolic "pacts"
Leviathan
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Two Treatises of Government
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