HIST 2101H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Clubmen, Cross-Dressing, Forced Migration
5 Apr 2016
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November 8 lecture: noncombatants and laws of war. Impact of the religious wars: french wars of religion. Edict of nache gave protestants in the south the right to defend their own towns: creaing a state within a state. Towards the very end of the war there was very high mortality rates (war, plagues, famine, sieges) 1530-1580 stable, then ater 1580 it dramaically increased: originally forced to pay taxes to support the royal army, taxes: the taille, burden on the populaion, raised through force. Peasants revolted because they couldn"t aford them: dutch revolt, growth rather than decline, amsterdam tripled in size, probably due to immigraion from germany and from the south. They were able to maintain their wealth: coastal towns vs. eastern towns, maintained by expanding their navy, thirty years war (1618-1648, how violent was the war, historiographical debates: from 3/4s to 1/8th decline in the.
