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that epidemic diseases created Puritanism;
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I would argue instead simply that
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this is a disease that reinforced it.
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Asceticism indeed had long been present in European culture,
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but syphilis helped make it more popular and a widely held sentiment.
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In the Catholic world, one can see a new piety as well,
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in the Catholic Reformation, in Jansenism, for example.
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Another impact clearly was in terms of tensions between the sexes.
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Now, this is familiar to you;
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we're going back over old ground in our course.
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Remember paintings that we saw
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earlier of the Garden of Eden and Origin Sin,