Between the Middle Ages and Modernity

Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
Herausgeber: Parker, Charles H.; Bentley, Jerry H.

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Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities in the profound transitions of the early modern period. Taking a global and comparative approach to historical issues, the distinguished contributors show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. Offering an important contribution to our understanding both of the early modern period and of its historiography, this volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of medieval, early modern, and modern history, and on the Renaissance and Reformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780742553095
• ISBN-10: 0742553094
• Artikelnr.: 21974154

Autorenporträt

Charles H. Parker is associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. Jerry H. Bentley is professor of history and director, Center for World History, at the University of Hawai`i.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World Part I:
Structures Chapter 1: Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World
Chapter 2: German Burghers and Peasants in the Reformation and the
Peasants' War: Partners or Competitors? Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Brothers:
Corporate Identity and the Revolt in the Towns of Holland Chapter 4: Family
and Community in the Spanish World Part II: Interactions Chapter 5:
Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia Chapter 6:
Settle or Return: Migrant Communities in Northern Europe, c. 1600-1800
Chapter 7: Forcing the Doors of Heathendom: Ethnography, Violence, and the
Dutch East India Company Chapter 8: Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim
Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World Part III: Transitions
Chapter 9: Custom, Community, and the Crown: Lawyers and the Reordering of
French Customary Law Chapter 10: The Individual on Trial in
Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: Between Tradition and Modernity Chapter 11:
"They have highly offended the community of God": Rituals of Ecclesiastical
Discipline and Pastoral Membership in the Community in Sixteenth- and
Seventeenth-Century German Parishes Chapter 12: Embodying the Middle Ages,
Advancing Modernity: Religious Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century
Europe and Beyond Chapter 13: The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the
Fifteenth Century Chapter 14: The Individual Merchant and the Trading
Nation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp Chapter 15: Between Profit and Power:
The Dutch East India Company and Institutional Early Modernities in the Age
of Mercantilism

Rezensionen

This excellent volume powerfully makes the case for Early Modernity as a field of historical studies, doing so specifically from the perspective of the 'new social history.' It is impressive both in its insistence on bringing the 'structures of everyday life' to the fore and its vigour in moving away from eurocentrism. -- Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study Parker and Bently have done a nice job of pulling together a wide range of topics in these 16 essays, which make the case for the early modern world as a field of historical studies... This collection is a significant contribution to the study of early modernity. Highly recommended. CHOICE The editors selected a program of ... broad relevance to the early modern subfield, one that successfully accommodates both methodological reflections and more empirical studies. Sixteenth Century Journal A fine volume that will contribute significantly to understanding of both the early modern period and its historiography. At the cutting edge of historical scholarship, it is particularly illuminating in combining European with non-European histories and exploring interactions between cultures and continents. -- Anthony Black, University of Dundee