Early Modern Europe (eBook, PDF)

Issues and Interpretations
Redaktion: Collins, James B.; Taylor, Karen L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This reader brings together original and influential recent work inthe field of early modern European history. * * Provides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking onthis period. * Key themes include evolving early-modern identities; changes inreligion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles ofwomen in early-modern societies; the rise of the modern state; andEurope and the new world system * Incorporates new scholarship on Eastern and CentralEurope. * Includes an article translated into English for the firsttime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405152075
• Artikelnr.: 38281976

Autorenporträt

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend and mentor. Some of Collins's works appeared first in Dickens's journals All the Year Round and Household Words and they collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins achieved financial stability and an international following with his best known works in the 1860s, but began suffering from gout. Taking opium for the pain grew into an addiction. In the 1870s and 1880s his writing quality declined with his health. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between Caroline Graves and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledments.

Introduction: Interpreting Early Modern Europe: Karen L. Taylorand James B. Collins.

Part I Evolving Early Modern Identities.

Introduction.

1 The Legacy of Rome: Anthony Pagden.

2 Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems: David Eltis.

3 History, Myth and, Historical Identity: Karin Friedrich.

4 The Theresian School Reform of 1774: James Van HornMelton.

5 The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism inEighteenth-Century French Political Culture: Thomas Kaiser.

Part II Changes in Religion and Cultural Life.

Introduction.

6 Ira Dei super nos: Denis Crouzet.

7 Charitable Activities of Confraternities: Maureen Flynn.

8 The Sins of Belief: A Village Remedy for Hoof and MouthDisease (1796) David Warren Sabean.

9 "Dutiful Love and Natural Affection": Parent-ChildRelationships in the Early Modern Netherlands: SherrinMarshall.

Part III The Revolution of the Mind.

Introduction.

10 A Possible Support for Irreligion: The Sciences: LucienFebvre.

11 The Material Culture of the Church and Incipient Consumerism:Richard A. Goldthwaite.

12 From a Culture of Science toward the Enlightenment: KathleenWellman.

13 Contesting Possession: Patricia Seed.

14 Ritual and Print Discipline and Invention: The Fête inFrance from the Middle Ages to the Revolution: Roger Chartier.

Part IV The Roles of Women in Early Modern SocietyIntroduction.

15 Political, Economic, and Legal Structures: Merry E.Wiesner.

16 Women before the Bench: Female Litigants in Early ModernNormandy: Zoë A Schneider.

17 Review of The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800,by Lawrence Stone: Alan Macfarlane.

18 Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia: David LRansel.

19 Public Leisure and the Rise of Salons: Deborah Hertz.

Part V The Rise of the Modern State System.

Introduction.

20 The Crisis in Assumptions about Political Thinking: FelixGilbert.

21 From Contractual Monarchy to Constitutionalism: GerhardOestrich.

22 Paradoxes of State Power: John Brewer.

23 The Power of the King: Antonio Feros Feros.

24 The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris,Normany, and Provence: Clare Haru Crowston.

Part VI Research Paradigms, Old and New.

Introduction.

25 The Courtization of the Warriors: Norbert Elias.

26 Women on Top: Natalie Zemon Davis.

27 The Contrasts: Alfred W. Crosby.

28 Transcending East-West Dichotomies: State and CultureFormation in Six Ostensibly Disparate Areas: Victor Lieberman.

29 Introduction to The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and theMaking of the Modern World Economy: Kenneth Pomeranz.

30 Between Carnival and Lent: Paula Findlen.

Index

Rezensionen

"Collin and Taylor's anthology... will be a valuable resource in teaching the historiography of the early modern era." History "Touches on a wide range of methodologies ... .Offers ... a broadening of horizons beyond any specialty. Much undiscovered territory ... much inspiration." Sixteenth Century Journal