The Crisis Of The Seventeenth Century

Author : Geoffrey Parker,Lesley M. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134709359

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The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker,Lesley M. Smith Pdf

One of the most fierce and wide-ranging debates in historical circles during the last twenty years has concerned the theory that throughout Europe, the seventeenth century was a period of crisis so pervasive, significant and intense that it could be labelled a 'General Crisis'. A number of articles stimulated by the debate were collected and published in a book entitled Crisis in Europe, edited by Trevor Aston. This volume takes the still acrimonious debate up to the present day. The editors have collected together ten important subsequent essays concerning the social, economic and political crises which affected not only Europe but also Asia in the mid-seventeenth century. All the pieces are essential reading for a clear understanding of the period. This new edition of The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century contains fresh research, new perspectives and completely updated bibliographies and index.

Author : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : PSU:000047248304

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The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Pdf

The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century collects nine essays by Trevor-Roper on the themes of religion, the Reformation, and social change. As Trevor-Roper explains in his preface, "the crisis in government, society, and ideas which occurred, both in Europe and in England, between the Reformation and the middle of the seventeenth century" constituted the crucible for what "went down in the general social and intellectual revolution of the mid-seventeenth century." The Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution in England laid the institutional and intellectual foundations of the modern understanding of liberty, of which we are heirs and beneficiaries. Trevor-Roper's essays uncover new pathways to understanding this seminal time. In his longest essay, "The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Trevor-Roper points out that "In England the most active phase of witch-hunting coincided with times of Puritan pressure--the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the period of the civil wars--and some very fanciful theories have been built on this coincidence. But ... the persecution of witches in England was trivial compared with the experience of the Continent and of Scotland. Therefore ... [one must examine] the craze as a whole, throughout Europe, and [seek] to relate its rise, frequency, and decline to the general intellectual and social movements of the time. . . ." Neither Catholic nor Protestant emerges unscathed from the examination to which Trevor-Roper subjects the era in which, from political and religious causes, the identification and extirpation of witches was a central event

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300189193

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Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.

Author : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : 0865972788

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The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Pdf

The Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution in England laid the institutional and intellectual foundations of the modern understanding of liberty, of which we are heirs and beneficiaries. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century uncovers new pathways to understanding this seminal time. Neither Catholic nor Protestant emerges unscathed from the examination to which Trevor-Roper subjects the era in which, from political and religious causes, the identification and extirpation of witches was a central event. Trevor-Roper points out that "In England the most active phase of witch-hunting coincided with times of Puritan pressure -- the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the period of the civil wars -- and some very fanciful theories have been built on this coincidence. But... the persecution of witches in England was trivial compared with the experience of the Continent and of Scotland. Therefore... [one must examine] the craze as a whole, throughout Europe, and [seek] to relate its rise, frequency, and decline to the general intellectual and social movements of the time...".

Author : Geoffrey Parker,Lesley M. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134709342

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The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker,Lesley M. Smith Pdf

One of the most fierce and wide-ranging debates in historical circles during the last twenty years has concerned the theory that throughout Europe, the seventeenth century was a period of crisis so pervasive, significant and intense that it could be labelled a 'General Crisis'. A number of articles stimulated by the debate were collected and published in a book entitled Crisis in Europe, edited by Trevor Aston. This volume takes the still acrimonious debate up to the present day. The editors have collected together ten important subsequent essays concerning the social, economic and political crises which affected not only Europe but also Asia in the mid-seventeenth century. All the pieces are essential reading for a clear understanding of the period. This new edition of The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century contains fresh research, new perspectives and completely updated bibliographies and index.

Author : Lyndal Roper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300119836

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Witch Craze by Lyndal Roper Pdf

A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.

Author : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:793417894

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The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Pdf

Author : Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : China
ISBN : 047208528X

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Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-century China by Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang Pdf

Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu

Author : Thomas Munck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307186

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Seventeenth-Century Europe by Thomas Munck Pdf

This thematically organised text provides a compelling introduction and guide to the key problems and issues of this highly controversial century. Offering a genuinely comparative history, Thomas Munck adeptly balances Eastern and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Ottoman Empire against the better-known history of France, the British Isles and Spain. Seventeenth-Century Europe - gives full prominence to the political context of the period, arguing that the Thirty Years War is vital to understanding the social and political developments of the early modern period - provides detailed coverage of the debates surrounding the 'general crisis', absolutism and the growth of the state, and the implications these had for townspeople, the peasantry and the poor - examines changes in economic orientation within Europe, as well as continuity and change in mental and cultural traditions at different social levels. Now fully revised, this second edition of a well-established and approachable synthesis features important new material on the Ottomans, Christian-Moslem contacts and on the role of women. The text has also been thoroughly updated to take account of recent research. This is a fully-revised edition of a well-established synthesis of the period from the Thirty Years War to the consolidation of absolute monarchy and the landowning society of the ancien régime. Thematically organised, the book covers all of Europe, from Britain and Scandinavia to Spain and Eastern Europe. Important new material has been added on the Ottomans, on Christian-Moslem contacts and on the role of women, and the text has been thoroughly updated to take account of recent research.

Author : Geoffrey Parker,Lesley M. Smith
Publisher : Routledge/Thoemms Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Europa - Política - Siglo XVII - Discursos, ensayos, conferencias
ISBN : 0710205457

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The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker,Lesley M. Smith Pdf

One of the fiercest and most wide-ranging debates in historical circles during the last decade has concerned the theory that, throughout Europe, the seventeenth century was a period of crisis so significant and intense that it could be labeled a "General Crisis." This updated volume takes the still acrimonious debate up to today. Geoffrey Parker and Lesley Smith have collected ten important subsequent essays concerning the social, economic and political crises which affected Europe and Asia in the mid-seventeenth century. This edition of "The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century" contains fresh research, new perspectives and completely updated bibliographies and index.

Author : I. A. A. Thompson,Bartolomi Yun Casalilla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521416248

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The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by I. A. A. Thompson,Bartolomi Yun Casalilla Pdf

This is a collection of recent revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. The aim if the volume is to draw the attention of English-speaking scholars to the new approaches, techniques and source materials that have transformed Catalan economic and social history over the past two decades and to make available in English the most important of the conclusions that have undermined the old but still standard orthodoxies of the textbooks, but that have been acceible hitherto only to specialists.

Author : Theodore K. Rabb
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036298706

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The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe by Theodore K. Rabb Pdf

Historians have argued over the 'crisis' of seventeenth-century Europe for decades. Taking into account the recent literature on the subject, the author assesses the controversy and offers a new interpretation of the period between 1500 and 1700, focusing on a crucial transition from turmoil to relative tranquility. [Back cover].

Author : Geoffrey Parker,Lesley M. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1408935396

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“The” General Crisis of the Seventeenth-century by Geoffrey Parker,Lesley M. Smith Pdf

Author : Philip Benedict,Myron P. Gutmann
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0874139066

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Early Modern Europe by Philip Benedict,Myron P. Gutmann Pdf

Fifty years after the beginning of the debate about the "general crisis of the seventeenth century," and thirty years after theodore K. Rabb's reformulation of it as the "European struggle for stability." this volume returns to the fundamental questions raised by the long-running discussion: What continent-wide patterns of change can be discerned in European history across the centuries from the Renaissance to the French Revolution? What were the causes of the revolts that rocked so many countries between 1640 and 1660? Did fundamental changes occur in the relationship between politics and religion? Politics and military technology? Politics and the structures of intellectual authority?

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307735

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Beyond the Military Revolution by Jeremy Black Pdf

The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black challenges conventional chronologies and permits a reappraisal of the debate over what has been seen as the Military Revolution of the early-modern period. The book discusses war with regard to strategic cultures, assesses military capability in terms of tasks and challenges faced and attaches styles of warfare to their social and political contexts. Genuinely global in range, this up-to-date and wide-ranging account provides fresh historiographical insights into this crucial period in world history.