OCC CIV NOTES 10/12
sorry, these notes kinda suck...

Midterm covers everything UP TO section on tues
three questions- 1 paragraph each
-you choose three of five or six
-primarily based on lectures
-not date-based, because that's shitty
-mostly topical questions (not really stupid fact-based questions)
for this week- read GINSBURG, NIGHT BATTLES (CHAPTERS 1, 3, 4)

Montaigne- first psychologist (kinda)
-first person to be really introspective in any way
-freud goes to Montaigne and Shakespeare for foundations of modern psychology
-Rembrandt was the other one
-rembrandt was the one guy who represented human beings accurately rather than idealistically

carnival was a big part of life during the time
-ended with a huge battle between 'carnival' and 'lent'
-carnival involves the consumption of huge amounts of food and drink
-contrasted with the piety of the church
-role reversal was huge during carnival (people would dress up as clerics, clerics as people)
-lots of eating, drinking
-lots of sex
-lots of violence
-oftentimes the rich would actually give to the poor
-people would save up for the carnival
-they save up for this time so that they can have more than enough, something to remember fondly

clerics spent a large amount of their time collecting tithe
-they would go around house to house and take a tenth of their possessions

kids played games during carnival

second marraige, when it happens, is jeered, people dont like it
-remarraige is common, but still has huge hostility attached to it
ritual humiliations were the way that community norms were set
-often also used to criticize people with more than them (it was allowed to mock those in authority)