Politics and Religion in Seventeenth-Century France
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 801
ISSN: 1938-274X
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In: The Western political quarterly, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 801
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: Midwest journal of political science: publication of the Midwest Political Science Association, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 104
In: Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651; Cass Military Studies
In: The economic history review, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 153
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: International review of social history, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 400-425
ISSN: 1469-512X
From the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, as absolutism emerged in its classic development, the lower classes of western Europe experienced great insecurity and hardship. The Hundred Years' War, the end of serfdom, the quickening of economic activity, the secular price advance, and the explosion of religious conflict shattered traditional social bonds, produced widespread destitution, and uprooted large numbers of peasants who took to the roads in a desperate nomadism. These vagrant populations, existing on theft, brigandage and, mainly, begging, evoked severe governmental repression which was to prove generally unpopular and, in the long run, ineffective. In seventeenth-century France certain private groups also were to take up the cause of repressing vagabondage through a systematic program of confinement in workhouses – a program which, while complementing royal policy, would draw its main inspiration from the ascetic spirituality of the French Counter Reformation. These hôpitaux généraux are of interest as concrete expressions of the convergence of social problems, absolutist political tendencies, and religious attitudes.
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 76, Heft 4, S. 620-621
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Itinerario: international journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, Band 25, Heft 3-4, S. 54-68
ISSN: 2041-2827
What had begun as a respectable stream of information about Asia during the sixteenth century became a virtual flood during the seventeenth. Literally hundreds of books about Asia and its various parts were published during that century, authored by missionaries, merchants, mariners, physicians, soldiers, and independent travellers. At least twenty-five major descriptions of South Asia, appeared during the century; another fifteen on mainland Southeast Asia, about twenty devoted to the Southeast Asian archipelagoes, and sixty or more to East Asia. Alongside these major independent contributions stood scores of Jesuit letterbooks, derivative accounts, travel accounts with brief descriptions of many Asian places, pamphlets, newssheets, and the like. Many of these were collected into the several large multivolume compilations of travel literature published during the period. In addition, several important scholarly studies pertaining to Asia were published during the seventeenth century - studies of Asian medicine, botany, religion, and history- as well as translations of important Chinese and Sanskrit literature.
This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in France between the early 1600s and the final years of Louis XIV's reign.
A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century, examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive event in English and European history. It emphasises the historical significance of the English Revolution, exploring not only its causes but also its long term consequences, basing both in a broad social context and viewing it as a necessary condition of England's having nurtured the first Industrial Revolution.
In: The Tanner lectures on human values, Band 14, S. 85-108
ISSN: 0275-7656
In: Routledge library editions. Political science Volume 27
1. Private men and public interest, 1646-60 -- 2. Hobbesian perspectives on the public good -- 3. Altruism and interest in Harrington -- 4. Conscience and interest after the restoration -- 5. Economic argument : the public interest quantified -- 6. Philosophy, politics and the public interest, 1660-1720.
In: Routledge library editions. Political science, Volume 27
In: Routledge library editions. Political science, 27