- 1. Introduction: 'Early Modern' Europe and the Idea of Early Modernity
- 2. The Early Modern Emergence of 'Europe'?
- 3. Weather, Climate, and the Environment
- 4. Disease and Medicine
- 5. Demography
- 6. Time
- 7. Travel and Communications
- 8. Print and Printedness
- 9. Languages and Literacy
- 10. A Revolution in Information?
- 11. Economic and Social Trends
- 12. The Social Order
- 13. Families and Households
- 14. Sexual Identity and the Family
- 15. Consumption and Material Life
- 16. The Agrarian West
- 17. The Agrarian East
- 18. Country and Town in Mediterranean Europe
- 19. Towns and Urbanisation
- 20. Manufacturing
- 21. The Christian Church, 1370-1550
- 22. Protestantism and Its Adherents
- 23. Early Modern Catholicism
- 24. The World of Orthodoxy
- 25. The Transformations of Judaism
- 26. Islam within Europe
- 27. The Culture of Peoples
- 28. Belief and its Limits.
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- 1. Political Thought
- 2. A Return to the Ancient World?
- 3. A Revolution in Natural Philosophy
- 4. Art and Architecture
- 5. Music
- 6. Europe's Enlightenment
- 7. Navigation and Discovery
- 8. Iberian Empires
- 9. Northern European Empires
- 10. The Role of the Religious Orders
- 11. Colonial Societies
- 12. Trade and the 'Global Economy'
- 13. The Unconquered East
- 14. Western European Monarchies
- 15. Northern and Eastern Monarchies
- 16. Authority and Popular Resistance
- 17. Rulers and Courts
- 18. Governance
- 19. Taxation and Finance
- 20. Republics and Republicanism
- 21. Warfare on Land
- 22. Warfare at Sea
- 23. The Ottoman Empire and Europe
- 24. Europe's Shifting Balance of Power, c.1450-1815
- 25. The Growth of Diplomacy, c.1450-1815.
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This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, social and economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.
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This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume II is devoted to 'Cultures and Power', opening with chapters on philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine 'Europe beyond Europe', with the transformation of contact with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power.
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