Fashion of the 17th Century

Davenport (1948) notes a number of the major shifts taking place during the Seventeenth Century. She notes that this was a period of alteration and realignment as royal prerogative gained over feudal power so that the lord's responsibility for his people was weakened, shifting responsibility to the people themselves to a much greater degree. This was the era of the rise of new types of guild. The old, vertically-composed craft guilds broke into separate entities of merchant-employers and journeymen hired-help. This was also the era of the rise of Protestantism, another force tending toward greater personal responsibility, a form of individualism fueled by such democratizing forces as the invention of printing. Previously, the bible had been a possession of the higher levels of the Church alone, and a monk, who might read his breviary, had to have permission of a superior to read the Bible. A layman could neither hope to own nor read a manuscript Bible, but with printing it was possible that anyone could own a Bible. When people could read on their own, they could also come to their o

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