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Chapter 15. State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century. Social Crises, War, and Rebellions. Economic Contraction Italy and Spain Population Changes Increase First since Black Death France, England, Netherlands Decrease:1620s, 1640. The Witchcraft Craze.
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Chapter 15 State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century
Social Crises, War, and Rebellions • Economic Contraction • Italy and Spain • Population Changes • Increase • First since Black Death • France, England, Netherlands • Decrease:1620s, 1640
The Witchcraft Craze • Witchcraft before the sixteenth and seventeenth century • Increased prosecutions and executions • Accusations against witches • Reasons for witchcraft prosecutions • Religious uncertainty • Social conditions - communal • Women as primary victims • Begins to subside by mid-seventeenth century – Scientific Revolution???
The Thirty Years War (1618 – 1648) • Background • Religious conflict • Protestant League Vs Catholic Union • Dynastic-nationalist considerations • Habsburg control of HRE • Tensions in the Holy Roman Empire • Spain/Habsburg VS France/German Protestant/England
Bohemian Phase (1618 – 1625) • Acpt then reject Catholic rule • Catholic Victory – Spain support • Danish Phase (1625 – 1629) • Christian IV (Denmark) invades • Catholic victory – Edict of Restitiution • Swedish Phase (1630 – 1635) • Gustavus Adolphus Sweden Invades • HRE divided (Prot=North; Cath-South) • Franco-Swedish Phase (1635 – 1648) • France invades – supported Prot. • Spanish defeated
Outcomes • Peace of Westphalia (1648) • Freedom of Choice • France – gains land • Spain – Decline • HRE – Free states • Habsburg Emp- Figurehead • Social and economic effects • Depopulation
A Military Revolution? • War and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Europe • New Tactics • New Technologies • The Cost of a Modern Military
Rebellions • Peasant Revolts (1590 – 1640) • France, Austria, Hungary, Portugal and Catalonia • Russia (1641, 1645 and 1648) • Switzerland (1656) • Noble Revolts in France (1648 – 1652)
Absolute Monarchy in France • Foundations of French Absolutism • Cardinal Richelieu (1624 – 1642) • Policies and goals • Administrative reforms • Cardinal Mazarin (1642 – 1661) • The Fronde – Noble Revolt
Reign of Louis XIV (1643 – 1715) • Administration of the Government • Domination and bribery • Religious Policy • Edict of Fontainebleau (1685) • Financial Issues • Jean Baptist Colbert (1619 – 1683) • Daily Life at Versailles • Purposes of Versailles • Court life and etiquette
The Wars of Louis XIV • Professional army: 100,000 men in peacetime; 400,000 in wartime • Four wars between 1667 – 1713 • Invasion of Spanish Netherlands (1667) • Annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, occupation of Strasbourg (1679) • War of the League of Augsburg (1689 – 1697) • War of the Spanish Succession (1702 – 1713)
The Decline of Spain • Bankruptcies in 1596 and in 1607 • Philip III (1598 – 1621) • Philip IV (1621 – 1665) • Gaspar de Guzman and attempts at reform • The Thirty Years’ War • Expensive military campaigns • Civil War • The Netherlands lost
Absolutism:Central/Eastern Europe • The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia • The Hohenzollern Dynasty • Frederick William the Great Elector (1640 – 1688) • Army • General War Commissariat to levy taxes • Junkers – local power • Frederick III (1688 – 1713) • King of Prussia (1701)
The Emergence of Austria • Habsburgs • Leopold I (1658 – 1705) • Expands eastward • Conflicts with the Turks • Siege of Vienna (1683) • Multinational Empire
Italy: From Spanish to Austrian Rule • Defeat of the French in Italy by Charles V (1530) • Spanish Presence (1559 – 1713) • Consequences of the War of the Spanish Succession
Russia: From Fledgling Principality to Major Power • Ivan IV the Terrible (1533 – 1584) • First Tsar • Romanov Dynasty (1613 – 1917) • Stratified Society • Tsar • Landed aristocrats • Peasants and townspeople
Visits the West (1697 – 1698) Reorg. armed forces Reorg. central government Divides Russia into provinces Seeks control of the Russian Church Introduces Western Customs Book of Etiquettes Peter the Great (1689 – 1725)
Positive Impact of Reforms on Women • “Open a window to the West” • St. Petersburg • Attacks Sweden • Great Northern War (1701 – 1721) • Peace of Nystadt (1721) • Russia gains control of Estonia, Livonia and Karelia
The Great Northern States • Denmark • Military losses • Bloodless revolution of 1660 • Sweden • Gustavus Adolphus (1611 – 1632) • Christina (1633 – 1654) • Charles XI (1697 – 1718)
Ottoman Empire-Limits of Absolutism • The Ottoman Empire • Suleiman the Magnificent (1520 – 1566) • Advance Europe and Mediterranean • Ottomans = European Power • New Offensives second half of the 17th c. • The Limits of Absolutism • Power of rulers not absolute • Local institutions still had power • Power of the aristocracy
Golden Age of the Dutch Republic • The United Provinces • Internal Dissension • The House of Orange and the Stadholders • The States General opposes the House of Orange • William III (1672 – 1702) • Trade damaged by wars • Life in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam • Reasons for prosperity
England and Constitutional Monarchy • James I (1603 – 1625): House of Stuart • Divine Right of Kings • Parliament - power of purse • Religious policies -The Puritans • Charles I (1625 – 1649) • Petition of Right • “Personal Rule” (1629 – 1640): Parliament does not meet • Religious policy angers Puritans
Civil War (1642 – 1648) • Oliver Cromwell • Charles I executed (January 30, 1649) • Parliament abolishes monarchy • Cromwell (Dies 1658) • Dissolves Parliament (April 1653) • Divides country into 11 regions • Levellers
Restoration & a Glorious Revolution • Charles II (1660 – 1685) • King=Declaration of Indulgence (1672) • Repelled anti-Catholic/Puritan Laws • Parliament=Test Act (1673) – Only Anglicans could hold military and civil offices • Whigs = Protestant/Parliament (against James II) • Tories = Pro-King (Anti-James)
James II (1685 – 1688) • Devout Catholic • Declaration of Indulgence (1687) • Protestant daughters: Mary and Anne • Catholic son born in 1688 • Parliament invites Mary and her husband, William of Orange, to invade England • James II, wife and son flee to France
Mary and William of Orange offered throne (1689) • Bill of Rights • The Toleration Act of 1689
Responses to the Revolution • Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) • Leviathan (1651) • People form a commonwealth • People have no right to rebel • John Locke (1632 – 1704) • Two Treatises of Government • Inalienable Rights: Life, Liberty and Property • People and sovereign form a government • If government does not fulfill its duties, people have the right to revolt
The Flourishing of European Culture • The Changing Faces of Art • Mannerism and Baroque • Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680) • Throne of Saint Peter • Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1653) • Judith Beheading Holofernes • French Classicism and Dutch Realism • French classicism emphasized clarity, simplicity, balance and harmony of design • Dutch Realism: realistic portrayals of secular, everyday life • Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 – 1699)
A Wondrous Age of Theater • Golden Age of Elizabethan Literature (1580 – 1640) • William Shakespeare (1564 – 1614) • The Globe Theater • Lord Chamberlain’s Company • Spanish Theater • Lope de Vega (1562 – 1635) • Wrote 1500 plays – about 1/3 survive • French Theater (1630s to 1680s) • Jean Baptiste Molière (1622 – 1673) • The Misanthrope • Tartuffe
Discussion Questions • Why were so many women targeted during the witchcraft craze? • How did the Thirty Years’ War affect the different participants? • Was French absolutism truly absolute? Why or why not? • What purposes did Versailles serve? • How did Western ideas influence the reign of Peter the Great in Russia? • What gains did Parliament make at the expense of the monarchy during the course of the seventeenth century? • How did English political thinkers react to the the English revolutions? • How did the art and plays that emerged after the Renaissance reflect the societies of their day?
Web Links • The Museum of Witchcraft • Chateau Versailles • The Thirty Years War Homepage • The State Hermitage Museum – St. Petersburg, Russia • Thomas Hobbes • Renaissance and Baroque Architecture • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet • National Drama: Spain to 1700