Once again about the crisis of the seventeenth century: a historiographical approach

Abstract

Although the idea of the seventeenth century crisis has suffered a intense review during the last decades, for many years it has been the source of numerous historical researches. This idea was created within the debate of the transition from feudalism to capitalism carried out by the british marxist historiography of the Second World War postwar period. Since the late 1950s, a growing attention was paid to the revolts of the middle of the century and some traditional thoughts and tales about the crisis were eventually abandoned. The main goal of the article is to draw a landscape of the already named crisis notion’s background and its respectiv bibliographical trajectory. On the other hand, the article seeks to understand the practical application of the notion in nowadays researches.