C. 18 def-wor (Rel/Fun) Flashcards
A pattern of cooperation and common action in a traditional village that sought to uphold the economic, social, and moral stability of the closely knit community.
community controls
Degrading public rituals used by village communities to police personal behavior and maintain moral standards.
charivari
The sharp increase in out-of-wedlock births that occurred in Europe between 1750 and 1850, caused by low wages and the breakdown of community controls.
illegitimacy explosion
A widespread and flourishing business in the eighteenth century in which women were paid to breast-feed other women’s babies.
wet-nursing
Events such as bullbaiting and cockfighting that involved inflicting violence and bloodshed on animals and that were popular with the eighteenth-century European masses.
blood sports
The few days of revelry in Catholic countries that preceded Lent and that included drinking, masquerading, dancing, and rowdy spectacles that upset the established order.
carnival
The idea that prices should be fair, protecting both consumers and producers, and that they should be imposed by government decree if necessary.
just price
The wide-ranging growth in consumption and new attitudes toward consumer goods that emerged in the cities of northwestern Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century.
consumer revolution
A Protestant revival movement in early-eighteenth-century Germany and Scandinavia that emphasized a warm and emotional religion, the priesthood of all believers, and the power of Christian rebirth in everyday affairs.
Pietism
Members of a Protestant revival movement started by John Wesley, so called because they were so methodical in their devotion.
Methodists
A sect of Catholicism originating with Cornelius Jansen that emphasized the heavy weight of original sin and accepted the doctrine of predestination; it was outlawed as heresy by the pope.
Jansenism
a family group consisting of parents and their children, typically living in one home residence. It is in contrast to a single-parent family, the larger extended family, or a family with more than two parents
Nuclear Family
an infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others
Foundlings
a school which is supported by charitable contributions
“Charity School”
a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians.
Catechism
