Dr Eleanor Janega
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1,236 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Aug
Dr Eleanor Janega’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Whereas early modern people are like, absolutely real, which came from a dick.
Right.
And it goes against this easy story that we like to tell about about the Renaissance, about even the Enlightenment.
And indeed, like the Enlightenment does kind of put paid to a lot of these things, but it sticks around.
Like, I mean, certainly the Salem witch trials are happening at the same time as the Enlightenment.
you know, it's not one of those things where you can't just say, well, we invented science, so nobody believes in witchcraft anymore.
Exact opposite.
We get way more into witchcraft as a society when we're inventing science.
So, you know, it's not an easy narrative.
It's not easy to teach in schools anymore.
always there's always estonia there's always iceland there's always you know these places where more men are killed you know there are there are always all these moving parts you think it's about older women and then
germany oh completely oh god in sweden they just kill whole towns it's just like everyone all of them oh wow they didn't mess around did they so you know it is one of those things where people want it to be easy
And I think also to a certain extent, people like the story of like the pure misogyny.
Yeah.
And, you know, don't get me wrong.
This is an entirely misogynist text.
It is absolutely disgusting.
It's irredeemable.
Yeah.
Like there's there is the only thing that's good about it.
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