Early Modern Europe Issues and Interpretations

by Collins, James B.; Taylor, Karen L.

• ISBN13: 9780631228936
• ISBN10: 0631228934
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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

Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction: Interpreting Early Modern Europe	1	(6)
Karen L. Taylor
James B. Collins
Part I Evolving Early Modern Identities	7	(76)
Introduction	9	(9)
The Legacy of Rome	18	(14)
Anthony Pagden
Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems	32	(9)
David Eltis
History, Myth and Historical Identity	41	(14)
Karin Friedrich
The Theresian School Reform of 1774	55	(14)
James Van Horn Melton
The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism in Eighteenth-Century French Political Culture	69	(14)
Thomas Kaiser
Part II Changes in Religion and Cultural Life	83	(70)
Introduction	85	(5)
Ira Dei Super Nos	90	(11)
Denis Crouzet
The Charitable Activities of Confraternities	101	(20)
Maureen Flynn
The Sins of Belief: A Village Remedy for Hoof and Mouth Disease (1796)	121	(17)
David Warren Sabean
``Dutiful Love and Natural Affection'': Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Modern Netherlands	138	(15)
Sherrin Marshall
Part III The Revolution of the Mind	153	(62)
Introduction	155	(5)
A Possible Support for Irreligion: The Sciences	160	(12)
Lucien Febvre
The Material Culture of the Church and Incipient Consumerism	172	(14)
Richard A. Goldthwaite
From a Culture of Science toward the Enlightenment	186	(11)
Kathleen Wellman
Contesting Possession	197	(10)
Patricia Seed
Ritual and Print Discipline and Invention: The Fete in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution	207	(8)
Roger Chartier
Part IV The Roles of Women in Early Modern Society	215	(82)
Introduction	217	(5)
Political, Economic, and Legal Structures	222	(19)
Merry E. Wiesner
Women before the Bench: Female Litigants in Early Modern Normandy	241	(17)
Zoe A. Schneider
Review of The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500--1800, by Lawrence Stone	258	(10)
Alan MacFarlane
Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia	268	(14)
David L. Ransel
Public Leisure and the Rise of Salons	282	(15)
Deborah Hertz
Part V The Rise of the Modern State System	297	(80)
Introduction	299	(6)
The Crisis in Assumptions about Political Thinking	305	(12)
Felix Gilbert
From Contractual Monarchy to Constitutionalism	317	(15)
Gerhard Oestreich
The Paradoxes of State Power	332	(16)
John Brewer
The Power of the King	348	(14)
Antonio Feros
The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normandy, and Provence	362	(15)
Clare Haru Crowston
Part VI Research Paradigms, Old and New	377	(82)
Introduction	379	(6)
The Courtization of the Warriors	385	(13)
Norbert Elias
Women on Top	398	(14)
Natalie Zemon Davis
The Contrasts	412	(7)
Alfred W.Crosby, Jr.
Transcending East-West Dichotomies: State and Culture Formation in Six Ostensibly Disparate Areas	419	(11)
Victor Lieberman
Introduction to The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy	430	(13)
Kenneth Pomeranz
Between Carnival and Lent: The Scientific Revolution at the Margins of Culture	443	(16)
Paula Findlen
Index	459