{"id":707,"date":"2012-01-10T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T23:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/?p=707"},"modified":"2012-01-10T23:23:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T23:23:30","slug":"from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Higginson will interpret the re-birth of misogyny by looking at the period of the Great Plague, 1345 onwards, and the great moralising discourse that swept across Europe post plaque. Located within this discourse of purity, women were viewed as both cause and effect of the plague, and were to be &#8220;enclosed&#8221; accordingly within the domestic sphere. The purity campaign against women was attributable to a re-reading of the Old Testament plus a resurgance of interest in Aristotlian ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Steve hails from Liverpool and was a Union organiser in the Communication Workers Union. Now a post-graduate, Steve lectures at John Moores University. His recent projects include an examination of time, memory and movement in port cities (principally Liverpool) as co-author of Edgy Cities (2006). He has been a regular contributor of Bristol Radical Hisotry Group events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Higginson will interpret the re-birth of misogyny by looking at the period of the Great Plague, 1345 onwards, and the great moralising discourse that swept across Europe post plaque. Located within this discourse of purity, women were viewed as both cause and effect of the plague, and were to be &#8220;enclosed&#8221; accordingly within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure - Bristol Radical History Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure - Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Steve Higginson will interpret the re-birth of misogyny by looking at the period of the Great Plague, 1345 onwards, and the great moralising discourse that swept across Europe post plaque. Located within this discourse of purity, women were viewed as both cause and effect of the plague, and were to be &#8220;enclosed&#8221; accordingly within the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bristol Radical History Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-10T23:23:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/logo_red_background.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Randell Brantley\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Randell Brantley\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure - Bristol Radical History Group","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure - Bristol Radical History Group","og_description":"Steve Higginson will interpret the re-birth of misogyny by looking at the period of the Great Plague, 1345 onwards, and the great moralising discourse that swept across Europe post plaque. Located within this discourse of purity, women were viewed as both cause and effect of the plague, and were to be &#8220;enclosed&#8221; accordingly within the [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/","og_site_name":"Bristol Radical History Group","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/","article_published_time":"2012-01-10T23:23:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/logo_red_background.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Randell Brantley","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Randell Brantley","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/"},"author":{"name":"Randell Brantley","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#\/schema\/person\/8a0bc3b70d9a594391e4de7a260064b1"},"headline":"From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure","datePublished":"2012-01-10T23:23:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/"},"wordCount":148,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/","name":"From the Great Plague to the Plague of Women: Purity, Misogyny and Female Enclosure - Bristol Radical History Group","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-01-10T23:23:30+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/2012\/01\/from-the-great-plague-to-the-plague-of-women-purity-misogyny-and-female-enclosure\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/","name":"Bristol Radical History Group","description":"History From Below","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#organization","name":"Bristol Radical History Group","alternateName":"BRHG","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/full-logo-small.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/full-logo-small.png","width":594,"height":500,"caption":"Bristol Radical History Group"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126960655805\/","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/brisradhis.bsky.social"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/#\/schema\/person\/8a0bc3b70d9a594391e4de7a260064b1","name":"Randell Brantley","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ccc29a2077c4cc87dd583057a849c76a34c32105f3213a54eee593da856ee83f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ccc29a2077c4cc87dd583057a849c76a34c32105f3213a54eee593da856ee83f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ccc29a2077c4cc87dd583057a849c76a34c32105f3213a54eee593da856ee83f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Randell Brantley"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}