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The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change

By Hugh Trevor-Roper

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0865972745, 9780865972742, 0865972788, 9780865972780
LCC
PR3522 .G72 2000
Open Library ID
OL33417M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2467968 bytes)
Pages
465\468
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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...".

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