scholarly journals The Seventeenth Century, the Little Ice Age, and Anthropogenic Forcing - A Reexamination from a Big History Perspective -

2011 ◽  
Vol null (43) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
CHOJIHYUNG
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Anthropogenic Forcing ◽  
Big History

A Faded Sun and a Wider World

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-136
Author(s):  
Philip Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
New Phase

The period from 1675 through the end of the century constituted one of the very coldest and most ruinous periods of that Little Ice Age. Most writing on the so-called General Crisis of the seventeenth century focus sharply on the parlous decades of the 1640s and 1650s and says little about that later crisis. Yet the religious consequences of those latter years were just as far-reaching, not least in redrawing frontiers between faiths. Unlike in the fourteenth century, Europeans now lived in a world of far-flung sea travel and colonial possessions, and persecuted populations amply exploited these opportunities to seek safe haven. Settlements in foreign lands also offered the prospect of new concepts of religious liberty removed far from the motherland, opening a dramatic new phase in attitudes to religious freedom and spiritual experimentation.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Sophie Chiari
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Weather And Climate

Torn as they were between trying to control their own destinies and letting God shape their actions, the Elizabethan and Jacobean subjects still looked for answers in the skies while they were also anxious to fashion their own lives in more coherent or rational ways than before. This Introduction gives clear definitions of the concepts used in the book (‘climate’, ‘weather’, ‘environment’) and presents the various approaches to weather and climate that prevailed at the turn of the seventeenth century. It also explains how early modern writers capitalised on both traditional and innovative views of the sky and emphasises both the influence of classical thought and the harsh realities of what is now known as the ‘Little Ice Age’. It finally introduces weather issues in connection with early modern drama and shows that the Shakespearean skies, in particular, are much more than a mere reservoir of metaphors.

1652

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Parrott
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
State Building ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
The Political ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Global Cooling ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Two Sides

This book offers a re-evaluation of the last year of the Fronde—the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652—in the making of seventeenth-century France. In late December 1651 cardinal Mazarin defied the order for his perpetual banishment, and re-entered France at the head of an army. The political and military crisis that followed convulsed the nation, and revived the ebbing fortunes of a revolt led by the cousin of the young Louis XIV, the prince de Condé. The book follows in detail the unfolding political and military events of this year, showing how military success and failure swung between the two sides through the campaign, driving both cardinal and prince into a progressive intensification of the conflict, while simultaneously fuelling a quest for compromise and settlement which nonetheless eluded all the negotiators’ efforts. The consequences were devastating for France, as civil war smashed into a fragile ecosystem that was already reeling under the impact of the global cooling of the ‘Little Ice Age’. 1652 raises questions about established interpretations of French state-building, the rule of cardinal Mazarin and his predecessor, Richelieu, and their contribution to creating the ‘absolutism’ of Louis XIV.

English Weather: The Seventeenth-Century Diary of Ralph Josselin

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Macadam
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Tree Rings ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Temperature Series ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Central England Temperature ◽  
Local Weather

The seventeenth-century diary of Ralph Josselin recorded local weather conditions in Earls Colne, Essex, during a period when some of the most severe weather of the Little Ice Age occurred. A comparison of information extracted from the journal with the instrumental findings of Josselin's contemporaries, the natural proxy of tree rings, and the highly regarded Central England Temperature series corroborates current knowledge about weather conditions during an era for which sources are problematical.

The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: The Little Ice Age and the Mystery of the “Great Divergence”

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
The People ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Agent Of Change

Geoffrey Parker's Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century is the fullest statement of the seventeenth-century crisis to date; it is an epic history with an enormous cast. But the people and institutions that it covers must share the historical stage with another agent of change—the Little Ice Age, which functions as the glue that holds together the era's myriad of events, producing an agricultural, political, and military crisis of global proportions. What is missing in Parker's account is a credible explanation for his version of the “great divergence”—the fact that resolution of the crisis took a different and fateful form in one region of Eurasia but in none of the others. Parker's claims about the Little Ice Age are ultimately testable, but his claim that it laid the basis for the “great divergence” remains mysterious.

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