The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change
By (author): "Donald J. Greene, Hugh Trevor-Roper"
Publish Date:
1963
ISBN0865972745
ISBN139780865972742
AsinThe Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change
Original titleThe Crisis of the 17th Century: Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change
collects nine essays by Trevor-Roper on the themes of religion, the Reformation, and social change.In his longest essay, “The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” Trevor-Roper points out that “in England the most active phase of witch-hunting coincided with times of Puritan pressure—the reign of Queen Eli