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Philip Benedict is professor ordinaire at the University of Geneva's Institut d'Histoire de la Réformation. Myron P. Gutmann directs the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at Ann Arbor.
Fifty years after the beginning of the debate about the 'general crisis of the seventeenth century, ' and thirty years after Theodore K. Rabb's reformulation of it as the 'European struggle for stability, ' this volume returns to the fundamental questions raised by the long-running discussion: What continent-wide patterns of change can be discerned in European history across the centuries from the Renaissance to the French Revolutio