The Terror of History: The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe, UCLA

[LadyAmarra1]

Very Good lecture, I wish some of my Professors would take him as an example for making some of the old thinking models more understandable for modern students.

[Rinzo2]

I was lucky enough to have Professor Ruiz for two separate classes while attending UCLA. The guy is an intellectual powerhouse and is one of the quintessential historians of the twentieth century.

Add to this the fact he is a phenomenal person. He loves all his students and gets to know each and every one of his 400+ students a quarter by name. He gives out chocolate on exam days. I liken him to Jaime Escalante in the type of impact he's had on the lives of his students. Thank you Teo!

[agapitoflores001]

Wahhhh.. this is scary.. goose bumps in my hands. hehe.. joke!

[hatestheastroturf]

STEVE JOBS YOURE ALIVE!!!!

Joking aside, good lecture though. Very well organized. I want to see this guy sometime!

[luvdrg8]

Please post more of Dr. Ruiz's lectures, UCLA. He is one of the best teachers I've ever seen!

[36Chik]

Demons and devils even to their own kind...clearly this sickness is truly in the genes....judgement has come for all of u devils cause as evil as u were then u still are today but ur more sneaky or at least u thought u were .....even the planet knows who the devils seed is my ppl know

[JuggieC]

I LOVE the fact that he states it was mostly women. There are so many people who say "Well there were men too...." and of course there were. There were men accused and their suffering is no less tragic. But the vast majority of those accused and executed were women. This was a woman's holocaust, yet to be acknowledged.

[kittythevamp]

yes exactly, ppl say Christians want love and harmony and pagans are very spiritual and want peace and harmony too (of course i am a pagan witch). ppl thought witches are evil, do black magic, curse ppl, (well we can if the ppl deserve it), and all that stuff, we can do that but we dont really like to because we deeply believe in good will, peace, prosperity, and all that junk. your neighbor could be pagan but you wud never know because you have done nuthing wrong to then,

[natureboiwill]

I really liked this lecture, I found it interesting and thought provoking.

[seven789100]

The Governments were built on crimes against humanity

[H0TCLAYT0N]

The theory on midwives being targeted has been completely negated.

Infact, midwives were rarely accused and were often involved as witnesses in witch trials.

[Myaiga]

its cool how he says paraphrasing. its so cool that i say it like him now

[tioedong]

yeah> Love his lectures, but can't afford to buy them.

Someone tell him to unlock his podcasts so the public can download them as podcasts.

[tantrangle]

@rocksoliddude1 Have you read The Alphebet vs the Goddess (Leonard Shlain)? Currently reading it now and I suggest it if you haven't. There's this new movie called Season of the Witch coming out with Nicolas Cage, and from what I can tell from the trailer it pretty much reinforces the idea that there are witches and they do need to be killed. Why can't a movie show the true side of this story?

[tantrangle]

@rocksoliddude1 Have you read The Alphebet vs the Goddess (Leonard Shlain)? Currently reading it now and I suggest it if you haven't.

[tantrangle]

Someone should make a movie about the real witch hunts that actually capture what it was like to be hunted down, tortured, killed and sometimes their children killed. In such a movie they could talk about "The Hammer" The Malleus Maleficarum and show how the insanity spread all over and how it really was an attack on women and all things feminine. I know about the movie The Crucible- but it doesn't capture the scale and the horror of those times. There needs to be a big budget film about this.

[airanwater01]

@tantrangle ,i have thought along these same lines fora long time now,the world needs to see the truth of what happened in the middle ages, how women were persecuted an made out to be witches then tortured an killed for the sake of religeon, it was just control, the modern church make out there all about love and peace but they need to research the origin of it all, i agree, there needs to be a big budjet movie on what happened, im talking mel gibson style ...brutal and honest

[tas294]

@rocksoliddude1 but remember it was not endorced by the church

[GRArnold]

Rulers and governments have always used licensure and guilds to limit the spread of knowledge, especially in healing arts and religion. Even the builders of the pyramids were restricted by tradr guilds to prevent the dilution of their skills.

[bloodhive]

the next witch hunt will be against the christians!

[jazzyG38]

This is excellent.

[skatewiththedead00]

im doing an essay for part of my A-level history course on the European witch hunt during the time of the protestant reformation, can anyone recommend any good websites?(dont worry, im not cheating :D )

[mae1958]

Wonderful lecture! Thank you.

[rayhilgert]

The Terror Of History - is a fantastic lecture series. I have listened to it many times

[benbenben888888]

poor women, they were born in a wrong place and wrong time.

[cassandrock]

This is one of my favorite mentors, Prof Teo.

[ddiiaa52]

whoever was doing anything they didn't like they would call them witches.

[bloodhive]

government and the church accused midwives and herbal healers of being witches, because they competed against doctors and the medical industry. that is my spin correct me if im wrong

[kostyel]

@bloodhive there were no doctors and no medical industry, actually no industry at all :)

[tantrangle]

@kostyel There were doctors, but they were just beginning to understand things like germs. Most of the doctors back then learned most of what they new about medicines from women.

[JuggieC]

@bloodhive I believe you're right. I also believe it still goes on goes on today. There are still a great many doctors who laugh at herbal healers, in my experience, at least.

[birthnight]

Teo is the best! So intelligent, open, and wonderful

[ARC820]

i had teo for three history courses at ucla. amazing

[ChampionsMadeHere]

he's one of the advisors for a study abroad trip this summer. whoever gets on board that one is lucky!

[feeltheclick]

beyond interesting. Thanks for uploaded it.

[Hierarchangel]

Very engaging lecture. You guys at UCLA are fortunate - don't miss the opportunity to learn from people like this!