HIST 1500Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Montesquieu, New Laws, Toleration
12 Jan 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The catholic church will put out propaganda against luther. Religious wars: especially german, swiss and french lands (c. 1540-1598) Thirty years war, all of europe ((1618-1648) Most intense hunting = 1550-1650(religious wars = 1540-1648) Visitation = policing of popular religion and magic. Geography: 75% of trials = german, swiss, french lands (only 50% of europes pop. ) Not an extension of the religious wars, catholics burn catholics and protestants burn protestsns. Boom : high demand for land, bread: (high prices, oversupply of labour: (low wages) Europe is in full scale depression 1620-1660. The poor are now a social problem. Atmosphere of religious tension economic crisis & political instability was fertile ground for with anxiety. English civil war (1641-60: religious war & political instability. Many trial participants are puritans (religious uncertainty) England 1682, scotland 1722, france 1745, germany 1775, sweden 1763, Strains of the thirty years war abate. Treaty of westphalia (1648) - religious toleration.
