The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 Volume I: Peoples and Place

by Scott, Hamish

• ISBN13: 9780199597253
• ISBN10: 0199597251
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-09-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity.

Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, social and economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.

Author Biography

Hamish Scott, Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, University of Glasgow and University of St Andrews

Hamish Scott has published extensively on eighteenth-century international relations, government and enlightened absolutism, and on the early modern nobility. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews, and is now attached to the University of Glasgow. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is currently completing a major study, Forming Aristocracy: The reconfiguration of the European Nobility, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: 'Early Modern' Europe and the Idea of Early Modernity, Hamish Scott
2. The Early Modern Emergence of 'Europe'?, Valerie Kivelson
3. Weather, Climate, and the Environment, Christian Pfister
4. Disease and Medicine, Mary Lindemann
5. Demography, Anne McCants
6. Time, Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
7. Travel and Communications, Wolfgang Behringer
8. Print and Printedness, James R. Raven
9. Languages and Literacy, Fania Oz-Salzberger
10. A Revolution in Information?, Ann Blair and Devin Fitzgerald
11. Economic and Social Trends, Regina Grafe
12. The Social Order, Andreas Gestrich
13. Families and Households, Mikolaj Szoltysek
14. Sexual Identity and the Family, Margaret R. Hunt
15. Consumption and Material Life, Janine Maegraith and Craig Muldrew
16. The Agrarian West, Tom Scott
17. The Agrarian East, Edgar Melton
18. Country and Town in Mediterranean Europe, James S. Amelang
19. Towns and Urbanisation, Rab Houston
20. Manufacturing, Markus Kupker
21. The Christian Church, 1370-1550, David J. Collins, SJ
22. Protestantism and Its Adherents, Ulinka Rublack
23. Early Modern Catholicism, Nicholas Terpstra
24. The World of Orthodoxy, Nikolaos Chrissidis
25. The Transformations of Judaism, David B. Ruderman
26. Islam within Europe, Tijana Krstic
27. The Culture of Peoples, Caroline Castiglione
28. Belief and its Limits, Mack Holt