Revoluciones y crisis del siglo XVII

Abstract

This text seeks to trace the relationship between crisis and revolution. These two categories were applied, for a more economic and social historiography, almost as necessary and fundamental elements to overcome the traditional social obstacles and the seventeenth century as a potentially revolutionary period. It is intended, however, to propose a new partnership between the two terms, in which emphasizes not the economics, but the breakdown of fidelity bonds, which disrupted the hierarchies and obedience commitments. Thus, it is necessary to understand how the actors of the seventeenth century perceived and acted on the crisis, how the revolution was an important vocabulary to provide the legitimacy necessary to make the changes in society and as political and secular sense of the word entered in England during the period called "English Revolution".