Early modern Europe [[electronic resource] ] : issues and interpretations / / edited by James B. Collins and Karen L. Taylor

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (482 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.2; 940.22
• Soggetto geografico: Europe History 1492-1648; Europe History 1648-1789; Europe Civilization 16th century; Europe Civilization 17th century; Europe Civilization 18th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CollinsJames B TaylorKaren L
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 11 The Material Culture of the Church and Incipient Consumerism; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Interpreting Early Modern Europe; Introduction; 1 The Legacy of Rome; 2 Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems; 3 History, Myth and Historical Identity; 4 The Theresian School Reform of 1774; 5 The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism in Eighteenth-Century French Political Culture; Part II Changes in Religion and Cultural; Introduction; 6 Ira Dei Super Nos; 7 The Charitable Activities of Confraternities; 8 The Sins of Belief:A Village Remedy for Hoof and Mouth Disease (1796) ; 9 "Dutiful Love and Natural Affection": Parent - Child Relationships in the Early Modern NetherlandsPart III The Revolution of the Mind; Introduction; 10 A Possible Support for Irreligion: The Sciences; 11 The Material Culture of the Church and Incipient Consumerism; 12 From a Culture of Science toward the Enlightenment; 13 Contesting Possession; 14 Ritual and Print Discipline and Invention:The Fête in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution; Part IV The Roles of Women in Early Modern Society; Introduction; 15 Political, Economic, and Legal Structures ; 16 Women before the Bench: Female Litigants in Early Modern Normandy17 Review of The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500 - 1800, by Lawrence Stone; 18 Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia; 19 Public Leisure and the Rise of Salons; Part V The Rise of the Modern State System; Introduction; 20 The Crisis in Assumptions about Political Thinking; 21 From Contractual Monarchy to Constitutionalism; 22 The Paradoxes of State Power; 23 The Power of the King; 24 The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normandy, and Provence ; Part VI Research Paradigms, Old and NewIntroduction; 25 The Courtization of the Warriors; 26 Women on Top; 27 The Contrasts; 28 Transcending East - West Dichotomies: State and Culture Formation in Six Ostensibly Disparate Areas; 29 Introduction to The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy; 30 Between Carnival and Lent: The Scientific Revolution at the Margins of Culture; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This reader brings together original and influential recent work in the field of early modern European history.Provides a thought-provoking overview of current thinking on this period. Key themes include evolving early-modern identities; changes in religion and cultural life; the revolution of the mind; roles of women in early-modern societies; the rise of the modern state; and Europe and the new world system Incorporates new scholarship on Eastern and Central Europe. Includes an article translated into English for the first time.
• Titolo autorizzato: Early modern Europe
• ISBN: 1-281-21381-0; 9786611213817; 0-470-70467-5; 0-470-77421-5; 1-4051-5207-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145303003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II