legacies_departures

Jan 12, 2006 Early Modern Legacies, Eighteenth-century Departures

Key terms:
confessional identity
Treaty of Westphalia
the individual
the estates
bourgeoisie

I. Locating Europe

II. Exploration and empire

III. The Reformation and politico-religious conflict

personal salvation through faith

anticlericalism and the priesthood of all believers

predestination and the elect (Calvin)

Bible reading

education and public poor relief

French wars of religion
England goes Protestant
Thirty Years War (1618-48); Peace of Westphalia

IV. Demographics and the economy: the big picture

medieval
early modern

sixteenth century

seventeenth century

eighteenth century

Decade	European population
1300	80,000,000
1350-1400	60,000,000
1500	80,000,000
1550	85,000,000
1650	80,000,000
1700	118,000,000
1750s	140,000,000
1800	187,000,000
1850s	250,000,000

V. A society of orders

first estate
second estate
third estate

bourgeoisie

petit bourgeoisie
peasantry

Europe 1715

European trade patterns, 1740
empires

The Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia

Religious divisions in Europe, 1648
religious divisions 1648

Confessional identities, 17th-century Europe

Scandinavia and northern German states	Lutheranism
England and Wales	Anglicanism
Scotland, Dutch Republic, Switzerland, some southern German states	Calvinism
Holy Roman Empire	Catholic emporer many Luthern principalities and cities
France	Catholicism (Gallican church under royal control) Calvinism
Ireland	Catholicism (majority population) Anglicanism (English planters and administration)
Russia	orthodox Christianity
the Balkans	Islam