Lecture Outline: The 17th Century Crisis
I. Why
the Crisis?
1. End
of Recovery Period (1450-1600).
2.
Causes/Nature of Crisis?
Political, Economic, Intellectual
II.
Political Crisis, Crisis of Authority:
War + Hard Times = Revolt = 17th Century
Crisis
1. The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648, and
results
2. Hard Times: Rising Taxation and Economic Depression
3. Revolts:
Example of the “Fronde” in France
III.
Crisis on the Village Level:
The Witch Craze
1. What
was witchcraft?
2. Who
were witches and what did they do?
3. A
typical witch hunt
4. Why
did the “Witch Craze” end?