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A bimonthly history and politics podcast by two Cork women. A woman‘s place is based on the same model of therapy: investigate the issues that are bubbling up to the surface today and find out the root. Sometimes that can be hundreds of years!
Ep 19: The Black Death & the beginning of Witch hunting
A Woman's Place Ireland
52 minutes
4 years ago
Ep 19: The Black Death & the beginning of Witch hunting
In the 19th episode of A Woman's Place we discuss how Women/Witches are to blame for the misfortunes of mankind, especially disease. We take you back to the Black Death in Europe in 1346 and document how one of the most traumatic events in European history led to the witch hunts just two centuries later.
Sorcha talks you through some of the Religious elements, including the two popes that kept excommunicating each other, as well as painting the picture of what the environment was like between the periods of the Black Death in the 1300s and witch hunting in the 1500s.
Links to the stories mentioned in the podcast include Dr. Shi Zhengli aka 'Bat Woman'
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/asia/china-covid-wuhan-lab-leak.html
The story of Typhoid Mary
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/typhoid-mary-the-irishwoman-blamed-for-bringing-a-deadly-disease-to-new-york-1.4210229
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/882115755/theres-something-about-mary?t=1629972336921
Two black Australian women who broke lockdown and were persecuted for doing so:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-31/racism-directed-at-women-charged-with-coronavirus-border-fraud/12510910
Books and Articles:
Plague and Persecution: The Black Death and Early Modern Witch-Hunts
https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/1011capstones%3A96/datastream/PDF/view
“Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews”
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A Woman's Place Ireland
A bimonthly history and politics podcast by two Cork women. A woman‘s place is based on the same model of therapy: investigate the issues that are bubbling up to the surface today and find out the root. Sometimes that can be hundreds of years!
