Early Modern Europe Issues and Interpretations
by Collins, James B.; Taylor, Karen L.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-09-30
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history. Provides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking on this period. Key themes include evolving early-modern identities; changes in religion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles of women in early-modern societies; the rise of the modern state; and Europe and the new world system Incorporates new scholarship on Eastern and Central Europe. Includes an article translated into English for the first time.
Author Biography
James B. Collins is Professor of History at Georgetown University, and Chair of the History Department.
Karen L. Taylor is Lecturer in History at Georgetown University.
Table of Contents
| Interpreting Early Modern Europe | |
| Evolving Early Modern Identities | |
| Introduction | |
| The Legacy of Rome | |
| Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems | |
| History, Myth and, Historical Identity | |
| The Theresian School Reform of 1774 | |
| The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism in Eighteenth-Century French Political Culture | |
| Changes in Religion and Cultural Life Introduction | |
| Ira Dei super nos | |
| Charitable Activities of Confraternities | |
| The Sins of Belief: A Village Remedy for Hoof and Mouth Disease (1796) | |
| "Dutiful Love and Natural Affection": Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Modern Netherlands | |
| The Revolution of the Mind | |
| Introduction | |
| A Possible Support for Irreligion: The Sciences | |
| The Material Culture of the Church and Incipient Consumerism | |
| From a Culture of Science toward the Enlightenment | |
| Contesting Possession: Patricia Seed | |
| Ritual and Print Discipline and Invention: The Fete in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution | |
| The Roles of Women in Early Modern Society | |
| Introduction | |
| Political, Economic, and Legal Structures | |
| Women before the Bench: Female Litigants in Early Modern Normandy | |
| Review of The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, by Lawrence Stone | |
| Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia | |
| Public Leisure and the Rise of Salons | |
| The Rise of the Modern State System | |
| Introduction | |
| The Crisis in Assumptions about Political Thinking | |
| From Contractual Monarchy to Constitutionalism | |
| Paradoxes of State Power | |
| The Power of the King | |
| The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normany, and Provence | |
| Research Paradigms, Old and New | |
| Introduction | |
| The Courtization of the Warriors | |
| Women on Top | |
| The Contrasts | |
| Transcending East-West Dichotomies: State and Culture Formation in Six Ostensibly Disparate Areas | |
| Introduction to The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy | |
| Between Carnival and Lent | |
| Index | |
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