465. Modern Times: France and the Netherlands in the 17th Century

A look at the political and religious ferment that made up the historical context of philosophy in 17th century France and the Netherlands.

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• R. Briggs, Early Modern France 1560-1715 (Oxford: 1998).

• E. Cameron (ed.), Early Modern Europe: an Oxford History (Oxford: 2001).

• D.M. Clarke, French Philosophy, 1572-1675 (Oxford: 2016).

• J.B. Collins, The State in Early Modern France (Cambridge: 2009).

• W. Doyle, Old Regime France (Oxford: 2001).

• A. Fix, “Radical Reformation and Second Reformation in Holland: The Intellectual Consequences of the Sixteenth-Century Religious Upheaval and the Coming of a Rational World View,” Sixteenth Century Journal 18 (1987), 63-80.

• J.I. Israel, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806 (Oxford: 1995).

• E. Le Roy Ladurie, The Ancien Regime: A History of France, 1610-1774 (Oxford: 1996).

• R.A. Mentzer and B. Van Ruymbeke (eds), A Companion to the Huguenots (Leiden: 2016).

• P.K. Monod, The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1589–1715 (New Haven: 1999).

• D. Onnekink and G. Rommelse, The Dutch in the Early Modern World: a History of a Global Power (Cambridge: 2019).

• J. Parsons, The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France (Washington DC: 2004).

• H. Philipps, Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge: 1997).