Households, Norms and Witchcraft
Hierarchy persisted
- Established hierarchies of class, religion and gender continued to define social status and perceptions in rural and urban settings.
- The CED's verb is continued — this subtopic's baseline is stability, not change.
- Rural and urban households worked as units, with men and women engaged in separate but complementary tasks.
Select all the features the CED says continued.
Witchcraft accusations peaked — they did not continue at a level.
But a debate opened
- The Renaissance and Reformation raised debates about female education and women's roles in the family, church and society.
- The CED's word is debates, not changes — the argument was opened, and the outcome was not settled in this period.
- Both movements supplied the tools: humanist education and the claim that a believer should read scripture.
The CED says the Renaissance and Reformation raised...
The argument was opened; the outcome is not claimed.
Cities took over moral regulation
- Social dislocation, coupled with the shifting authority of religious institutions during the Reformation, left city governments with the task of regulating public morals.
- The CED gives two causes: dislocation (1.10's migrants) and shifting religious authority (2.4's settlements).
- So the secular state's reach grew in an area nobody had planned to transfer to it.
Continuity, an opened debate, or evidence of upheaval?
Sort each feature of society 1450-1648.
Select both causes the CED gives for city governments regulating morals.
The secular state's reach grew where nobody planned to transfer it.
The Renaissance and Reformation raised debates, not settled changes. The CED's word records that an argument about female education and women's roles was opened in this period — its outcome is not claimed, and asserting a transformation states more than the sentence does.
Accusations of witchcraft peaked between 1580 and ____.
The range overlaps almost exactly with this unit's conflicts.
Leisure and communal norms
- Leisure activities continued to be organised according to the religious calendar and the agricultural cycle, and remained communal in nature.
- Local and church authorities continued to enforce communal norms through rituals of public humiliation.
- Both sentences use continued — the texture of ordinary life is the unit's largest continuity.
Match each CED phrase to what it records.
The CED's verbs are the most reliable guide to what it is claiming.
Witchcraft accusations peaked
- Reflecting folk ideas and social and economic upheaval, accusations of witchcraft peaked between 1580 and 1650.
- The CED gives two causes and a date range, and the date range overlaps almost exactly with this unit's conflicts.
- So the peak is evidence about upheaval, and it belongs in an answer about social effects of religious and economic change.
A reformer argues that every believer should read scripture. A reader asks whether that includes his daughters. The claim does not settle the question; it makes it a question — and the CED's word debates records exactly that state of affairs.
Established hierarchies of class, religion and gender continued, and households worked as units with separate but complementary tasks. The Renaissance and Reformation raised debates about female education and women's roles. Social dislocation and shifting religious authority left city governments regulating public morals. Leisure and communal norms continued, and witchcraft accusations peaked between 1580 and 1650, reflecting folk ideas and upheaval.