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LECTURE:
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE

Economic change Commercial revolution

• Price revolution 1500 - 1650 example
  • population increase
  • New World silver 1556 coin
• Growth of capitalism
  • enclosure
    definition
    types of enclosure in England
  • putting-out system
  • mercantilism definitions, England and Spain

Science

• Surgery: Ambroise Pare (~1517 - 90)
• Anatomy: Vesalius (1514 - 64)
• Astronomy: Copernicus (pub. 1543)
  lots of portraits

Women's Lives

"Ritual Kiss"

demographics image and reality pictures of lives infanticide trials witch hunts and "gendercide" workbook document: Malleus Maleficarum: The Hammer of Witches(1486) gender issues Document: Hic Mulier (The Mannish Woman) (1620)

Religious Wars and Toleration

• Wars of Religion in France, with map
• Limited tolerance
  Document: The Edict of Nantes (1698)
• The Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
  Summary
  Gustavus Adolphus and France vs the Habsburgs

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