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The economic aspects, in addition to the religious aspects. (Time period…

- - - - No more a Moral Economy
        
        Period of Transformation
        
        More Agriculture
        
        Agriculture affected society, politics, and culture
        
        Agricultural revolution
- - - - Holberg was doubtful towards Christianity
        
        Ludvig Holberg’s mother was a granddaughter of a distinguished bishop.
        
        "Children must be made into men,
        before they can become Christians"
        
        "If one learns Theology, before learning to
        become a man, one will never become a man."
        
        Holberg's interest was more on Deism.
        
        Deism refers to what can be called natural religion,
- - - - Multiple references to religion in Jeppe of the hill
        
        Deism = Christianity
        
        Had the ideology God created this world but he will never intervene this world
        
        Anthropocentric Perspective(It is the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet)
        
        Considered it a duty to enlighten the society
- - - - European
        
        Age of Enlightenment
        
        Rejected predominant mercantilism concept, protectionist measures
        
        Enlightenment was predecessor to Adam Smith's (1723-1790) theory of 'the invisible hand', wherein society acts practically for its own benefit, without any intervention and is able to function optimally
        
        Gave rise to Physiocrats, who are considered the fathers of modern Economics
        
        A period of scientific and theological revolution that upended the norms and replaced them with logical ways of thinking
        
        Pragmatic, practical thinking
        
        Big believer in the power of reason, this is evident in his works, and while humor is present, there is always an underlying moral in his works that brings back the element of reason and clear thinking
      - Exports are estimated to have been about 5 percent of GDP between 1550 and 1650.
        
        Rise and fall in GDP (Instability in GDP)
        
        During the seventeenth century, the years of bad harvests, about 80-85 percent of the population lived from subsistence agriculture in small rural communities and this did not change.