Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World / Jonathan Dewald, Editor in Chief

by Dewald, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780684312026
• ISBN10: 0684312026
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

Alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced entries explore the social, cultural, and political developments of the early modern world, including profiles of European city-states, prominent figures, empires, and geographical regions.

Table of Contents

VOLUME 2

C (CONTINUED)

Cologne

Colonialism

Columbus, Christopher

Comenius, Jan Amos

Commedia dell'Arte

Commerce and Markets

Communication, Scientific

Communication and Transportation

Comuneros Revolt (1520-1521)

Concubinage

Condé Family

Condorcet, Marie-Jean Caritas, marquis de

Confraternities

Constantinople

Constitutionalism

Consumption

Converses

Copernicus, Nicolaus

Cornaro Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia

Corneille, Pierre

Correggio

Corsica

Cortés, Hernán

Cosmology

Cossacks

Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de

Court and Courtiers

Cracow

Cranach Family

Crime and Punishment

Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

Cromwell, Oliver

Cromwell, Thomas

Cullen, William

Czech Literature and Language

D

Daily Life

Dance

Dashkova, Princess Catherine

David, Jacques-Louis

Death and Dying

Decorative Arts

Dee, John

Defoe, Daniel

Deism

Democracy

Denmark

Descartes, René

Design

Determinism

Devolution, War of (1667-1668)

Diamond Necklace, Affair of the

Diaries

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Diderot, Denis

Dientzenhofer Family

Diplomacy

Dissemination of Knowledge

Dissenters, English

Divine Right Kingship

Divorce

Donne, John

Dort, Synod of

Drama

English

German

Italian

Spanish and Portuguese

Dresden

Dryden, John

Dublin

Duel

Duma

Dürer, Albrecht

Dutch Colonies

The Americas

The East Indies

Dutch Literature and Language

Dutch Republic

Dutch Revolt (1568-1648)

Dutch War (1672-1678)

E

Early Modern Period: Art Historical Interpretations

Earth, Theories of the

Eboli, Ruy Gómez de Silva, prince of

Economic Crises

Edinburgh

Education

Edward VI (England)

El Greco

Elizabeth I (England)

Elizabeth (Russia)

Empiricism

Enclosure

Encyclopédie

Engineering

Civil

Military

England

English Civil War and Interregnum

English Civil War Radicalism

English Literature and Language

Enlightened Despotism Enlightenment

Ensenada, Cenón Somodevilla, marqués de la

Enthusiasm

Environment

Epistemology

Equality and Inequality

Erasmus, Desiderius

Espionage

Estates and Country Houses

Estates-General, French

Estates-General, 1614

Estates-General, 1789

Ethnography

Euler, Leonhard

Europe and the World

Exclusion Crisis

Exploration

F

False Dmitrii, First

Family

Farnese, Isabel (Spain)

Febronianism

Feminism

Fénelon, François

Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Empire)

Ferdinand II (Holy Roman Empire)

Ferdinand III (Holy Roman Empire)

Ferdinand VI (Spain)

Ferdinand of Aragón

Festivals

Feudalism

Fielding, Henry

Firearms

Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard

Florence

Florence, Art in

Floridablanca, Jose Moñino, count of

Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

Fontainebleau, School of

Food and Drink

Food Riots

Forests and Woodlands

Forgeries, Copies, and Casts

Fragonard, Jean Honore

France

France, Architecture in

France Art in

Francis I (France)

Francis II (Holy Roman Empire)

Franck, Sebastian François de Sales

Frankfurt am Main

Frederick III (Holy Roman Empire)

Frederick I (Prussia)

Frederick II (Prussia)

Frederick William (Brandenburg)

Frederick William I (Prussia)

Frederick William II (Prussia)

Free and Imperial Cities

Free Will

Freemasonry

French Colonies

The Caribbean

India

North America

French Literature and Language

Fronde

Fugger Family

Fur Trade

North America

Russia