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

by Dewald, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780684312040
• ISBN10: 0684312042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• 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 4

M

Macau

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Madness and Melancholy

Madrid

Magellan, Ferdinand

Magic

Malpighi, Marcello

Mandeville, Bernard

Manila

Mannerism

Mansart, François

Mantua

Mantuan Succession, War of the (1627-1631)

Marburg, Colloquy of

Marguerite de Navarre

Maria Theresa (Holy Roman Empire)

Mariana, Juan de

Marie Antoinette

Marie de l'Incarnation

Marie de Médicis

Marillac, Michel de

Marlowe, Christopher

Marriage

Marseille

Martyrs and Martyrology

Marvels and Wonders

Mary I (England)

Mathematics Matter, Theories of

Matthias (Holy Roman Empire)

Maulbertsch, Franz Anton

Maximilian I (Holy Roman Empire)

Maximilian II (Holy Roman Empire)

Mazarin, Jules

Mazepa, Ivan

Mechanism

Medici Family

Medicine

Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán,

7th duke of

Mediterranean Basin

Mehmed II (Ottoman Empire)

Melanchthon, Philipp

Mendelssohn, Moses

Mengs, Anton Raphael

Mercantilism

Mercenaries

Merian, Maria Sibylla

Mersenne, Marin

Mesmer, Franz Anton

Messianism, Jewish

Methodism

Mexico City

Michael Romannu (Russia)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Midwives

Milan

Military

Armies: Recruitment, Organization, and Social Composition

Battle Tactics and Campaign Strategy

Early Modern Military Theory

Historiography

Milton, John

Miracles

Missions, Parish

Missions and Missionaries

Asia

Spanish America

Mobility, Geographic

Mobility, Social

Mohyla, Peter

Molière

Monarchy

Money and Coinage

Central and Eastern Europe

Western Europe

Monopoly

Montaigne, Michel de

Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat de

Monteverdi, Claudio

Moral Philosophy and Ethics

Moravian Brethren

More, Henry

More, Thomas

Moriscos

Moriscos, Expulsion of (Spain)

Morozova, Boiarynia

Moscow

Motherhood and Childbearing

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Munich

Münster

Muratori, Ludovico Antonio

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban

Museums

Music

Music Criticism

N

Nantes, Edict of

Naples, Art in

Naples, Kingdom of

Naples, Revolt of (1647)

Nasi Family

National Identity

Natural History

Natural Law

Nature

Navigation Acts

Navy

Neoclassicism

Neoplatonism

Nepotism

Netherlands, Art in the

Art in the Netherlands, 1500-1585

Art in Flanders, 1585-1700

Art in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1700

Netherlands, Southern

Neumann, Balthasar

New York

Newton, Isaac

Nikon, patriarch

Noble Savage

Northern Wars

Novalis

Novikov, Nikolai Ivanovich

Nuremberg

O

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Occult Philosophy

Odalisque

Officeholding

Old Age

Old Believers

Oldenbarneveldt, Johan van

Oldenburg, Henry

Olivares, Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, count of

Opera

Oprichnma

Optics

Orphans and Foundlings

Orthodoxy, Greek

Orthodoxy, Russian

Ottoman Dynasty

Ottoman Empire

Oxenstierna, Axel

P

Pacific Ocean

Pacifism

Painting

Palatinate

Palestripa, Giovanni

Pierluigi da

Palladio, Andrea, and Palladianism

Papacy and Papal States

Paracelsus

Paris

Parlements

Parliament

Parma

Parma, Alexander Farnese, duke of

Pascal, Blaise

Passarowitz, Peace of (1718)

Passions

Pastel

Patiño y Morales, José

Patriarchy and Paternalism

Patriot Revolution

Patronage

Paul I (Russia)

Paul III (pope)

Paul V (pope)

Pawning

Peasantry

Peasants' War, German

Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de

Pepys, Samuel

Perrault, Charles

Persecution

Peter I (Russia)

Petty, William

Philadelphia

Philip II (Spain)

Philip III (Spain)

Philip IV (Spain)

Philip V (Spain)

Philosophes

Philosophy

Physics

Physiocrats and Physiocracy

Picturesque

Pietism

Pilon, Germain

Piracy

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Pitt, William the Elder and William the Younger

Pius IV (pope)

Pius V (pope)

Pizarro Brothers

Plague

Poisons, Affair of the

Poissy, Colloquy of

Poland, Partitions of

Poland to 1569

Poland-Lithuania, Commonwealth of, 1569-1795

Police

Polish Literature and Language

Polish Succession, War of the (1733-1738)

Political Parties in England

Political Philosophy

Political Secularization

Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette

Poisson

Pompeii and Herculaneum

Poniatowski, Stanislaw II Augustus

Pope, Alexander