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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017

    Social history is important & the most interesting to me. If ppl knew more of it, they wouldn't have such a flawed 'big picture'.

    9:12 AM - 2 May 2017
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        That would be beneficial for its own sake but it becomes more important when trying to draw moral lessons from history.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Whether its the late medieval Catholic church or women's status, you get a very different picture if you look at how lives were affected.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Than if you're looking at papal bulls & significant documents or laws.This tells us more about humanity which is the point of the humanities

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        One thing it's important to remember re: gender relations throughout history is most men & women lived v close together in very small spaces

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It was Isobel Davis in 'Negotiating Patriarchy' I think who pointed out just how significant this was.

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      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        If you spend much time in one room with someone you have to stay with the rest of ur life, this is much more pleasant if they're happy.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Which sounds cynical but really lives were tied together so much more than they are now. You knew each other very well. Limited escapism.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Divorce was not an option & you can't go off & play video games leaving your wife watching TV in bed whilst on social media.

        2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      10. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        And utterly dependent on each other in a way we're not now. Housewifery really was a full time job just to have food & clothes.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      11. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        So you knew each other very well & apart from natural human empathy, love & compassion, much motivation to keep each other happy.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      12. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        So ppl who look back & see men had power to control almost everything their wives did & assume they'd have done that selfishly see it wrong.

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      13. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
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        Obviously if a man was a bastard & happy to live with a miserable, cowed slave, his wife had very little recourse. Laws needed changing.

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      14. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
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        But mostly ppl had to get through lives which were hard and they had to do it together & they felt love & loyalty & commitment.

        3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      15. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
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        And this worked out with varying degrees of success & there was community justice & strong expectations of not being a complete arsehole.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      16. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
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        In communities where everyone was very close together, indications that one spouse was not caring for the other wld bring strong disapproval

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      2. Stormy Maniels‏ @republicluvv 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        If it's not to much to ask, would you please name 3 crucial reads that would help a person to see this bigger picture?

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @republicluvv

        This is the thing. If you go for metahistories or sources which try to summarise a huge topic like the church or women, doomed to failure.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        But if there is some period (in England) or topic you are interested in between 1300 and 1700, I can probably help!

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        If, for example, you are interested in looking beneath the Protestant narrative of the hideously corrupt late Catholic church?

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      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Or you want to know how the Black Death briefly empowered women & what this meant for them in reality?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      7. John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (my name too)‏ @debeehr 2 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I'll take sources on both. Always looking for more good reads!

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 May 2017
        Replying to @debeehr

        https://www.amazon.co.uk/Late-Medieval-English-Church-Vulnerability/dp/0300197128/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493808719&sr=8-1&keywords=the+late+catholic+church+bernard … Katherine French, The Good Women of the Parish Judith Bennet, Medieval Women, Modern Women, Across the Great Divide

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      9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3 May 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose @debeehr

        The latter is an essay in David Aers Culture and History 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities & Writing which is all great.

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