Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-11-17
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521023672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents an original view of the culture of early modern Italy. The book addresses particular themes - specifically those of perception and communication - as well as serving to exemplify modes of analysis in the currently developing field of historical anthropology.
Author: Sarah Hamilton
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780754651949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Holy sites - churches, monasteries, shrines - defined religious experience and were fundamental to the geography and social history of medieval and early modern Europe. How were these sacred spaces defined? How were they created, used, recognized and tran
Author: Mary Lindemann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0521425921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1107606152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Elegant and accessible, this book is a powerful and imaginative exploration of themes in the history of European ideas.
Author: C. Scott Dixon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-11
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 1000497372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interpreting Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive collection of essays on the historiography of the early modern period (circa 1450-1800). Concerned with the principles, priorities, theories, and narratives behind the writing of early modern history, the book places particular emphasis on developments in recent scholarship. Each chapter, written by a prominent historian caught up in the debates, is devoted to the varieties of interpretation relating to a specific theme or field considered integral to understanding the age, providing readers with a ‘behind-the-scenes’ look at how historians have worked, and still work, within these fields. At one level the emphasis is historiographical, with the essays engaged in a direct dialogue with the influential theories, methods, assumptions, and conclusions in each of the fields. At another level the contributions emphasise the historical dimensions of interpretation, providing readers with surveys of the component parts that make up the modern narratives. Supported by extensive bibliographies, primary materials, and appendices with extracts from key secondary debates, Interpreting Early Modern Europe provides a systematic exploration of how historians have shaped the study of the early modern past. It is essential reading for students of early modern history. For a comprehensive overview of the history of early modern Europe see the partnering volume The European World 3ed Edited by Beat Kumin - https://www.routledge.com/The-European-World-15001800-An-Introduction-to-Early-Modern-History/Kuminah2/p/book/9781138119154.
Author: David M. Whitford
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 0271091231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in the field, new trends, key issues scholars are working with, and fundamental works in their subject area, including the wide range of electronic resources now available to researchers. Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research is a valuable resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe.
Author: Richard Kirwan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1317059204
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the same time, the universities of Europe became increasingly orientated towards serving the territorial state, guided by a humanistic approach to learning which stressed its social and political utility. It was in these contexts that the notion of the scholar as a distinct social category gained a foothold and the status of the scholarly group as a social elite was firmly established. University scholars demonstrated a great energy when characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book investigates the significance and implications of academic self-fashioning throughout Europe in the early modern period. It describes a general and growing deliberation in the fashioning of individual, communal and categorical academic identity in this period. It explores the reasons for this growing self-consciousness among scholars, and the effects of its expression - social and political, desired and real.
Author: Julius R. Ruff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-10-04
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521598941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Julius Ruff summarises a huge body of research and provides readers with a clear, accessible, and engaging introduction to the topic of violence in early modern Europe. His book, enriched with fascinating illustrations, underlines the fact that modern preoccupations with the problem of violence are not unique, and that late medieval and early modern European societies produced levels of violence that may have exceeded those in the most violent modern inner-city neighbourhoods. Julius Ruff examines the role of the emerging state in controlling violence; the roots and forms of the period's widespread interpersonal violence; violence and its impact on women; infanticide; and rioting. This book, in the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History, will be of great value to students of European history, criminal justice sciences, and anthropology.
Author: Kasper von Greyerz
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0195327659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultural and spiritual exercises. This text presents Kaspar von Greyerz's important overview and interpretation of the religions and cultures of Early Modern Europe.