The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
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The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
- Hugh Trevor-Roper (author)
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.”
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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. 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.
Table of Contents
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- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
- 1: Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change
- 2: The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
- 3: The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- 4: The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- 5: Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution
- 6: The Fast Sermons of the Long Parliament
- 7: Oliver Cromwell and His Parliaments
- 8: Scotland and the Puritan Revolution
- 9: The Union of Britain in the Seventeenth Century