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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A fundamental book,
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This review is from: Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, The (Paperback)
This a fundamental book for all those who are interested either academically of personally in the history of the Reformation, specially in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Prof. Dr. Trevor-Hoper analyses deeply several aspects of the cultural, religious, economical and social history of that time of history. It is a key book for students, social scientists, historians and scientists of religion.
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Why did the witch trials stop?,
By Professor Joseph L. McCauley "Joseph L. McCauley" (Austria+Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, The (Hardcover)
Fascinating history of the witch trials from their beginning in the hands of two monks trying to 'civilize' relatively pagan regions like the Alps and Pyrenees until their peak at the time of the deaths of Galileo, Descartes, and Kepler, and the birth of Newton. One learns that the Swedish Cristina, who attracted Descartes to Stockholm as her philosophy teacher, put the end to the witch trials there, after her father had contributed to the world the Thirty Years War. A good starter for anyone interested in the intermittent decline of the influence of religion in the west as the enlightenment caught steam.
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Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, The by Hugh Trevor-Roper (Hardcover - March 1, 2001)
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