The crisis in government, society, and ideas which occurred, both in Europe and in England, between the Reformation and the middle of the seventeenth century constituted the crucible for what went down in the general social and intellectual revolution of the mid-seventeenth century. Trevor-Roper from his preface --The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
About the Author
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre, is retired Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.