Chapter I. The End of the Renaissance, 1480.
Chapter II. Reformation Culture, 1520-1559.
Chapter III. Culture in Peril: The Religious Wars, 1560-1599.
Chapter IV. Baroque Culture in a Disordered Europe, 1600-1649.
Chapter V. Classical Culture, 1650-1699.
Chapter VI. The Culture of the Rococo and the Enlightenment, 1700-1739.
Chapter VII. The Culture of the Age of Reason, 1740-1784.
Chapter VIII. The Culture of Revolution and War, 1785-1820.
Biography
Charlie R. Steen is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He has a long interest in the cultural history of Early Modern Europe and is particularly interested in Dutch, Italian, and French history. His previous publications include Margaret of Parma: A Life (2013) and The Reign of Louis XIV, with Paul Sonnino, William Roosen, and John C. Rule, eds. (1990).
'A wonderful book both insightful and stimulating, demonstrating to students how to see relationships in history that they never suspected existed and leading them directly to a bibliography of the kinds of books in which they could explore these relationships.'
Paul Sonnino, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
