HIST 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Early Modern Europe, Louis Xiv Of France, Authoritarianism
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Lecture 2 - the political crisis of the mid 17th century. In 1688 king james was forced out of power by parliament and replaced by the husband of his daughter. England had been through a bloody civil war that was still in the memory of those living in england during the 1600s. Britain was a modernizing society that was modernizing their economy and starting global capitalism. It was also a society of regents and was still rooted in an older (perhaps medieval world) This society was very young, people were in their teens and twenties. Extremely skewed to children and adolescents because of the high death rate, high death rates for children and adults as well. Demographic characteristics of a poor society in the global south. Birth was a source of great danger, when women prepared to give birth they wrote their wills because birth was the leading cause of death for women in their 20s and 30s.
