Humanities 202-01H Michael Crowell Unit 2 Short Writing Assignment- Chapters 14-15 A Seventeenth Century Witch Trial Brian Croteau A Seventeenth-Century Witch Trial is about a woman named Suzanne Gaudry‚ an illiterate woman‚ who is accused of practicing witchcraft. The charges against Suzanne include renouncing “God‚ Lent‚ and baptism.” She was also charged with worshiping the devil‚ attending witches’ Sabbaths‚ and desecrating the Eucharist wafer. Suzanne was questioned by the court
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New England Puritanism was a religious movement in Seventeenth century which was mainly based upon building a purer Church but it also had political‚ economic and cultural implications. In early sixteenth century‚ King Henry VIII decided to move away from Roman Catholic church and created the Church of England. He declared himself the supreme head of the church. The Puritans were Englishmen and women who overtime became dissatisfied with the direction taken by the Church of England. They perceived
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Social customs and daily life during seventeenth century England varied depending on both one’s social class and their gender. A person’s social class could determine everything from the furniture in their house to the education of their children. There were various social classes that someone could belong to. The nobility was at the top‚ followed by the gentry. After the gentry‚ there were farmers who owned their own land. Though not well off or wealthy‚ they were still comfortably off. Though
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In the town of Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ during the summer months of 1692‚ over 200 people were accused of being bewitched and associating with the Devil. Within the matter of months‚ 20 people were put to death and seven died in jail. The event‚ which has come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials‚ stopped after September 22‚ when eight people were hanged‚ on what was named Gallows Hill‚ an event that marked the decline of the Salem Witch paranoia. Although the paranoia was such a drastically important
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the Puritans and how did Puritans organize their local communities? Why did the religious fervor of New England Puritans decline after 1660? How did the Salem witch episode reflect the tensions and changes in seventeenth-century New England life and thought? The Puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England that had a profound influence on the social‚ political‚ ethical‚ and theological ideas of England and America. Puritans immigrated to the New World‚ where they
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The Salem witch trials began when the 9-year-old daughter of reverend Samuel Parris and his niece were diagnosed as being under Satan’s influence. The Salem witch trials were an inhumane and unfair series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people‚ also four other accused and an infant child died in prison. People believed witches were associated with the
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The life in a living hell will continue in the coming "Salem" Season 3 Episode 4 "Night’s Black Agents." Everyone should be very careful of their moves as the Dark Lord keeps an eye on all of them. In the promo trailer of "Salem" Season 3 Episode 4‚ Anne (Tamzin Merchant) can be seen warning Cotton (Seth Gabel) to be very careful as he stays in the woods or else‚ he will be in grave danger. However‚ Baron (Joe Doyle) believes that if ever Cotton makes it out of Boston alive‚ the Dark Lord will still
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12‚ 2015 William Cronon: Changes in the Land Author William Cronon‚ Changes in the Land is a book that gives a detailed analysis on what life was like in the New England colony when the settlers first arrived. Cronon describes many things that the settlers experienced when they arrived over into New England and how it differed from England. Cronon discusses Indian relationships and how each group had different customs. In the book Cronon describes the landscape and how everyone was able to benefit
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The Salem witch trials occurred around the 1690s in Salem‚ Massachusetts. Some young women started to have fits and their bodies would seize. These fits had seemingly no medical explanation‚ so the people of Salem deemed it witchcraft. The people of Salem then had to decide which people were witches. They accused both men and women of witchery‚ and when they were found guilty‚ they were hanged‚ but why were these people found guilty? The people of 17th century Salem were convicted of witchcraft due
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Bryan F. Le Beau. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall‚ 1998. The Salem Witch Trials has been a debatable topic for many historians enamored by its deviation from the normal as seen in Europe or other European Colonies in North America. As presented in Bryan Le Beau’s book The Story of the Salem Witch Trials‚ the story of Salem is unique in that it is centered primarily around the communities incapability to harmonize with one another. In the first two chapters
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