baroque age 1600-1715

Absolutism, Monarchy, and the Balance of Power

Warfare in the Baroque Period

• The Thirty Years War 1618-1648
• Wars of Louis XIV 1665-1713

Literature

• Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
• Jean Racine (1639-1699)

Music

• Johann Sebastian Bach - devout Lutheran (1685-1750)
• George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Painting and Architecture

• Rembrandt van Rijn
• Palace of Versailles
• Peter Paul Rubens
• The Florid Baroque
• The Classical Baroque
• The Restrained Baroque
• Jan Vermeer
• Anthony Van Dyck
• Gianlorenzo Bernini

Scientific Revolution

Astronomy and Physics

• Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543)
• Johannes Kepler (1546-1601)
• Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
• Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Impact of Science on Philosophy

• Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Religion

Puritanism

Cause of split with the Anglican Church under Elizabeth I

• Thomas Manton (1620-1677)
• Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
• William Bates (1625-1699)
• Thomas Goodwin (1600-1679)
• John Owen (1616-1683)
• John Howe (1630-1705)
• Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
• Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Westminster Large Catechism 1647

Westminster Short Catechism 1647

Westminster Confession 1646

Canons of Dordt 1618-1619

London Baptist Confession of Faith 1646

Suggestions for Further Reading

• Behn, A Oroonoko and Other Stories
• Corneille, P The Cid
• Milton, J Paradise Lost
• Racine, J B Phaedra

Suggestions for Listening

• Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
• Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
• Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)
• Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)