Great Fears of the Past
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Great Fears of the Past
14.99 €
Nowadays, people often explain everything that happens with the help of conspiracy theories. This was also the case in past centuries. Belief in secret conspiracies and the machinations of unknown forces determined the course of historical events. In the distant past, when an epidemic broke out in a European country, strangers, people of a different faith, were considered to be the spreaders of the disease. Measures to protect against the epidemic were often reduced to persecution of Jews. Since ancient times there is a legend that the Jews use the blood of baptized babies to perform rituals on the days of their holidays. Richard III went down in history as a cruel, hateful tyrant. However, modern researchers suggest a different view of one of England's most famous kings. During the reign of Henry VIII, England changed beyond recognition. Where it was impossible to succeed openly, this king resorted to the guile inherent in his soul from birth. "The worst Englishman of the 17th century" was named Titus Oates. Who was he? "Spanophobia" began to spread in Europe on the eve of the Reformation and finally took shape during the protracted wars between the Protestant states and Catholic Spain in the sixteenth century, but the term itself appeared recently - just over a hundred years ago. Opponents of the Spanish accused them of mass crimes against the indigenous population of the Americas, while the same crimes committed later by the British in North America, or by the British, French and Belgians in Africa, were simply silenced. The eve of the French Revolution has long been referred to by historians as the time of the "Great Fear". The panic that gripped France at that time changed the course of world history for a long time. It was no longer possible to live as before.
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