Podcasts by Max Dashu
Cujus baptisatio, ejus regio: “To he who baptizes, to him the rulership.” This was the policy of the Church to christianize pagan countries by conquest, recognizing the feudal overlordship of invaders. Most people aren’t aware that crusades were fought against pagans in Europe, as well as against Muslims in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt. Those invasions […]
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After the Inquisition stamped out the Cathars in southern France, the next target was the Vaudois (Waldenses), radical Bible Christians who denounced the wealth and corruption of the church hierarchy. In the early 1300s, they fled into the mountain communities of the Western Alps to escape persecution; and the Inquisition followed. The hounds of orthodoxy
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In this second excerpt from “Women, Power and Danger,” we go into some of the most detailed accounts about secular witch hunts in the late 1300s. They center on sexual politics: jilted women, love magic, the sorcery of male impotence, wife-battering —and abusive men using the charge of witchcraft to get rid of unwanted wives.
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This episode looks at the sexual politics of western European witchcraft in the 1300s. It’s based on excepts from a chapter in The Sorcery Charge, the 11th volume in my series Secret History of the Witches. Very little of that has been published so far, but this is the first in a series of podcasts
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