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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 Hamish Scott (Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, University of Glasgow and University of St Andrews)

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 By Hamish Scott (Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, University of Glasgow and University of St Andrews)

Summary

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. Volume I addresses social and cultural identity, examining structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place by Hamish Scott (Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, University of Glasgow and University of St Andrews)

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 Reviews

the very real achievement the two volumes represent ... will be valuable indeed as introductions, for those, students and established scholars alike, seeking to find their conceptual and bibliographical footing in unfamiliar terrain. * Spencer J. Weinreich, Journal of Jesuit Studies *

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

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place by Hamish Scott (Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, Hon. Senior Research Fellow and Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of International History, University of Glasgow and University of St Andrews)
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