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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452691103321

Titolo

Between the Middle Ages and modernity : individual and community in the early modern world / / edited by Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-7425-5309-4

0-7425-7147-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern

History, Modern

Individualism - History

Individuality - History

Community life - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World Charles H. Parker; Part One: Structures; 2 Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World Jerry H. Bentley; 3 German Burghers and Peasants in the Reformation and the Peasants' War: Partners or Competitors? Thomas A. Brady Jr.; 4 A Tale of Two Brothers: Corporate Identity and the Revolt in the Towns of Holland Henk van Nierop; 5 Family and Community in the Spanish World Carla Rahn Phillips; Part Two: Interactions

6 Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia William D. Phillips Jr.7 Settle or Return: Migrant Communities in Northern Europe, ca. 1600-1800 Douglas Catterall; 8 Forcing the Doors of Heathendom: Ethnography, Violence, and the Dutch East India Company Sanjay Subrahmanyam; 9 Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World Michael N.



Pearson; Part Three: Transitions; 10 Custom, Community, and the Crown: Lawyers and the Reordering of French Customary Law Marie Seong-Hak Kim

11 The Individual on Trial in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: Between Tradition and Modernity Hugo de Schepper (translated by Elizabeth Bradbury Pollnow)12 ""They Have Highly Offended the Community of God"": Rituals of Ecclesiastical Discipline and Pastoral Membership in the Community in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German Parishes Susan C. Karant-Nunn; 13 Embodying the Middle Ages, Advancing Modernity: Religious Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond Ulrike Strasser; 14 The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the Fifteenth Century Kathryn L. Reyerson

15 The Individual Merchant and the Trading Nation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp Donald J. Harreld16 Between Profit and Power: The Dutch East India Company and Institutional Early Modernities in the ""Age of Mercantilism"" Markus P. M. Vink; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities in the profound transitions of the early modern period. Taking a global and comparative approach to historical issues, the distinguished contributors show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. Offering an important contribution to our understanding both of the early modern period and of its historiography, this volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of medieval, e