In France, life expectancy in the mid-18th century was just 25 years, rising to between 60 and 70 by the end of the Second World War. These days, life expectancy in France is a little over 79 for ...

However 17th-century readers faced some of the same problems we encounter today. The challenge of finding unbiased, accurate reportage of relevant political issues was as daunting in the 1640s as ...

Investigating this case was possible by understanding the 17th century economic conditions, land holdings and political strife in this famous wine-producing region." In addition to translating the ...

A major new study has explored the dramatic criminal trials of authors accused of subversion in 17th century France. The Italian philosopher Giulio Cesare Vanini was brutally executed for blasphemy by ...

Historian Wilkinson (Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory) illuminates the political upheavals of 17th-century France in this meticulous look at the case of Eustache Dauger, the prisoner believed to ...

The 17th-Century Heretic We Could ... whose political motto was “true freedom,” was lynched and mutilated by a mob whipped into a frenzy by reactionary rabble ... Catholics in France, ...

“Fashion is the mirror of history,” King Louis XIV wrote in 17th century France. “It reflects social, economic, and political change rather than mere whimsy.” Little did he know that ...

In 17th-century France, only the lower orders did physical labor; thus anyone doing physical labor occupied a lower order. Plus ça change! Poulain doesn’t buy that, of course.

Such a move could have helped drag the country out of the 17th century, where it has so long been mired. But there was still the question of a ballooning budget deficit and national debt.

By the late 17th century, Europe had begun to regard China as more than Marco Polo’s land of legends. With an increase in luxury goods—notably porcelain—heading west, and scientific ...

The exhibition in Beijing of 17th- and 18th-century objects from the Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles will look at how artisans on opposite sides of the world influenced each other J.S ...