1. Europe Transformed: Reform & State
Building
• Reformation of the sixteenth century
-growth of state power
-social changes in the Renaissance
-impact of printing
• The Spread of the Protestant Reformation
-Calvin & Calvinism
-The English Reformation
-The Anabaptists
• Social impact of the Protestant Reformation
-The Society of Jesus
-The Council of Trent
2. Europe in Crisis:1560-1650
• Politics & the Wars of Religion
-French Wars of Religion (Huguenots)
-Phillip II & militant Catholicism
-Elizabethian England
• Economic & Social Crisis
-population decline
-witchcraft mania
-economic trends
• Seventeenth Century Crises: Revolution & War
-The Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
-Peace of Westphalia: consequences and changes?
-A military revolution?
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5. Response to Crisis: The Practice of
Absolutism
• France under Louis XIV
-Divine-Right monarchy
-political institutions (royal court)
-economy & military appropriations
• Absolutism in Central & Eastern Europe
-Prussia: Frederick William the Great Elector & the
General War Commissariat
-Austria: The Habsburg monarchy and the concept of
hereditary possessions
-Muscovy to Russia: Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
-The Zemsky Sobor (national assembly) Peter the Great
6. England & Limited Monarchy
• Conflict between King & Parliament
-end of Tudor dynasty, rise of Stuarts
-Charles I and the Puritans
• Civil War and Commonwealth
-English Civil War (1642-48)
-Oliver Cromwell & the New Model Army
• Restoration & a Glorious Revolution
-James II and William of Orange
English Bill of Rights
