The “ general crisis ” thesis generated much controversy between those, such as the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who believed in the thesis, but saw the problems of 17th-century Europe as being more social and economic in origin than Trevor-Roper would allow.

In the north chapel is a memorial to Sir Peter Leicester, the 17th-century historian, and in the Warburton Chapel is the alabaster effigy of Sir John Warburton who died in 1575.

The patronymic " Mrnjavčević " comes from Mrnjava, described by 17th-century Ragusan historian Mavro Orbin as a minor nobleman from Zachlumia ( in present-day Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia ).

As a historian, Kogălniceanu notably introduced several more or less influential Romantic nationalist theses: after 1840, he was noted for stressing the image of the 17th-century Wallachian Prince Michael the Brave as a unifier of Romania, although this view had not been at all present in his earlier essays ; he proposed that the Romanian folk was among the first European peoples to record history in their national language, although the earliest Romanian-language chronicles date back to the 17th century ; additionally, he argued that the Second Bulgarian Empire was a Romanian state.

The 17th-century historian Ibn Abi Dinar used Musa's decline in fortune as an object lesson in the vagaries of human existence, with some exaggerations: " Musa, who had conquered half the inhabited world, who had acquired so many riches, died in poverty, begging alms from passers-by, after having been abandoned by the last of his servants.

James Howell ( c. 1594 – 1666 ) was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age.

* the târih ( تاريخ ), or history, a tradition in which there are many notable writers, including the 15th-century historian Aşıkpaşazâde and the 17th-century historians Kâtib Çelebi and Naîmâ

According to 17th-century Ragusan historian Mavro Orbin, his father was a minor noble named Mrnjava from Zachlumia, whose sons Vukašin and Uglješa were born in Livno in western Bosnia.

The 17th-century ecclesiastical historian Tillemont called the edict " insignificant "; likewise, the late 20th-century historian Timothy Barnes cautioned that the " novelty or importance of measure should not be overestimated ".

The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £ 20, 000.

The college also operates the Thayer Conservatory of Music, a 17th-century Thayer family mansion-turned-conservatory.

Although his family had aristocratic relations, they were minor gentry rather than high-ranking members of the upper echelons of 17th-century society.

Next on the left, is Tong Hall, a 17th-century manor house built in the late 17th century, and is part of the historic part of the area, replacing a much older building ( A capital messuage ( manor house ) is recorded in 1343 as part of the holdings of the Tong family, but destroyed by fire around 1700 )

* Ots-Toch, 17th-century Mohawk woman from Canajoharie who married the Dutch trader Cornelius Anthonisse Van Slyck ; together they founded the Van Slyck family in New Netherland.

The coat of arms, conferred on 17 January 1911 by Prince Regent Luitpold and borne ever since, is a combination of the 17th-century community seal, which is no longer on hand, and a smaller version of the arms borne by the family Schad, whose members called themselves Schad von Ostheim.

The present Lord Eccles and his family are life tenants of Moulton Hall, Moulton, near Richmond, North Yorkshire, a 17th-century house, the property of the National Trust.

The Scagliola technique came into fashion in 17th-century Tuscany as an effective substitute for costly marble inlays, the pietra dura works created for the Medici family in Florence.

Its exterior was inspired by the Renaissance-revival style Hôtel Pourtalès in Paris and its interior was modeled after the 17th-century Collegio dei Gesuiti ( now the Palazzo dell ’ Università ) built by the Balbi family for the Jesuits in Genoa.

The family prospered, in part due to fortuitous 16th-and 17th-century marriages into the prominent Todd, Frobisher and Hildyard families in Yorkshire.

* Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th-century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers

Dorothy's father, Henry Hope Shakespear ( 1849-1923 ), traced his family to 17th-century East London rope makers and, like his wife, came from a military family.

Her " Mantlemass Chronicles " is a family saga set in 15th to 17th-century England.

In what some sociologists term the " bourgeois family ", which arose out of typical 16th-and 17th-century European households and is often considered the " traditional Western " structure, the father's role has been somewhat limited.

In what some sociologists term the " bourgeois family ", which arose out of typical 16th-and 17th-century European households and is considered by some the " traditional Western " structure, the father's role has been somewhat limited.

As the 17th-century Fortescue mural monument in the parish church of Weare Giffard states, " Whympstone " ( modern spelling " Whympston ") in the parish of Modbury is the oldest known home of the Fortescue family, influential in British and West Country history.

David Abercromby was a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer, thought to have died in 1702.

* Pool Plantation a 17th-century fishing plantation maintained by Sir David Kirke and his heirs at Ferryland.

Paintings by Rubens ’ followers Van Dyck and Jordaens complete the holdings of the leading names of 17th-century Flemish painting, which also include paintings by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Paul de Vos and David Teniers the Younger.

On the vault are several 17th-century canvases, from left to right: Cumean Sibyl by Ludovico Gimignani ; Moses by Francesco Rosa ; Eternal Father by Giovanni Peruzzini ; David by Luigi Garzi ; and Eritrean Sibyl by Giovanni Andrea Carlone.

The 17th-century authority David HaLevi Segal suggested that the reason was to distinguish Jews from their non-Jewish counterparts, especially while at prayer.

The German Caspar David Friedrich had a distinctive style, influenced by his Danish training, where a distinct national style, drawing on the Dutch 17th-century example, had developed.

* 17th-century plan of Boulogne, Fortified Places, by David Flintham

However, most list Christ the Lord Is Risen Today to be sung to the anonymous tune Nassau ( first found in a late 17th-century German book of sacred tunes ), to the tune Gwalchmai by Welsh composer Joseph David Jones, or to the tune Llanfair, by another Welsh composer, Robert Williams.

Descartes was a major figure in 17th-century continental rationalism, later advocated by Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz, and opposed by the empiricist school of thought consisting of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Hume.

* Tradescant ( TR ) ( 50 boys, 1976 ) is named for John Tradescant the younger, the 17th-century Royal gardener and plant collector, an alumnus of the school, whose father John laid out gardens nearby.

17th-century engraving of the parterre s as first laid out

In 1663, he became director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, where he laid the basis of academicism and became the all-powerful, peerless master of 17th-century French art.

The emerging Baptist movement in 17th-century England, for example, was a microcosm of the historic debate between Calvinists and Arminians.

In " The Complete Calvin And Hobbes ," Watterson does not name the inspiration for Calvin's character, but he does say Calvin is named for " a 16th-century theologian who believed in predestination ," and Hobbes for " a 17th-century philosopher with a dim view of human nature.

Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

In Changes in the Land ( 1983 ), William Cronon analyzed and documented 17th-century English colonists ' reports of increased seasonal flooding in New England during the period when new settlers initially cleared the forests for agriculture.

The rule is named after the 17th-century French mathematician Guillaume de l ' Hôpital, who published the rule in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l ' Intelligence des Lignes Courbes ( literal translation: Analysis of the Infinitely Small for the Understanding of Curved Lines ) ( 1696 ), the first textbook on differential calculus.

Stefan Czarniecki was a 17th-century hetman ( military commander ), famous for his role in driving the Swedish army out of Poland after an occupation that had left the country in ruins and is remembered by Poles as the Deluge.

Soon after his accession, Innocent X ( as he chose to be called ) initiated legal action against the Barberini for misappropriation of public funds, an easily demonstrated crime in 17th-century courts anywhere.

The term ' leveller ' had been used in 17th-century England as a term of abuse for rural rebels.

In A Social History of Truth ( 1994 ), for example, Steven Shapin makes the largely sociological argument that, in 17th-century England, the mode of sociability known as civility became the primary discourse of truth ; for a statement to have the potential to be considered true, it had to be expressed according to the rules of civil society.

Incorporated as the " Collegiate School ", the institution traces its roots to 17th-century clergymen who sought to establish a college to train clergy and political leaders for the colony.

The 17th-century Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens discovered and proved these properties of the cycloid while searching for more accurate pendulum clock designs to be used in navigation.

Due to the islands ' isolation, for many years Bermuda remained an outpost of 17th-century British civilization, with an economy based on the use of the islands ' Bermuda cedar ( Juniperus bermudiana ) trees for shipbuilding, and Bermudians ' control of the Turks Islands, and their salt trade.

Robert Boyle,, was a 17th-century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology.

In 17th-century Leiden, for instance, people opening their homes to services could be fined 200 guilders ( a year's wage for a skilled tradesman ) and banned from the city Throughout this, however, personal freedom of religion did exist, and was one factor – along with economic reasons – in causing large immigration of religious refugees from other parts of Europe.

Other buildings and structures within the grounds are separately grade I listed, including the early 16th-century tilt yard tower the only surviving example of the five original towers ; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.