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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786181303321

Titolo

Crisis in Europe 1560-1660 / / edited by Trevor Aston ; with an introduction by Christopher Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-50522-9

0-203-14524-0

1-283-96538-0

1-136-50523-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Altri autori (Persone)

AstonT. H (Trevor Henry)

Disciplina

940.23

Soggetti

Europe History 1517-1648

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1965 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE CRISIS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; III. THE GENERAL CRISIS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; IV. TREVOR-ROPER'S 'GENERAL CRISIS': SYMPOSIUM; V. FOREIGN MERCENARIES AND ABSOLUTE MONARCHY; VI. THE FRENCH PEASANTRY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: A REGIONAL EXAMPLE; VII. THE DECLINE OF SPAIN; VIII. QUEEN CHRISTINA AND THE GENERAL CRISIS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; IX. THE CHARACTER OF ELIZABETHAN CATHOLICISM; X. THE NOBLES, THE PEOPLE, AND THE CONSTITUTION; XI. STRAFFORD IN IRELAND: A REVALUATION

XII. THE ALIENATED INTELLECTUALS OF EARLY STUART ENGLANDXIII. WOMEN AND THE CIVIL WAR SECTS; XIV. THE QUAKERS AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Past and Present began publication in 1952. It has established itself as one of the leading historical journals, publishing in lively and readable form a wide variety of scholarly and original articles.Much important work by English and foreign scholars on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries first appeared in the form of articles in the journal. Originally published in 1965, this collection brings together a broad selection of these articles which have much common ground in the questions they



discuss. Together they cover many aspects of crisis and change in most E