Introduction: Interpreting Early Modern Europe
C. Scott Dixon and Beat Kümin
Chapter 1: Medieval and Modern
Euan Cameron
Chapter 2: Identities and Encounters
Charles H Parker
Chapter 3: Gender and Social Structures
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Chapter 4: Renaissance
Edward Muir
Chapter 5: Reformations
C. Scott Dixon
Chapter 6: Media and Communication
Mark Greengrass
Chapter 7: Material Cultures
Bruno Blondé and Wouter Ryckboch
Chapter 8: The State
James Collins
Chapter 9: War and the Military Revolution
Christopher Storrs
Chapter 10: Expansion, Space and People
Dagmar Freist
Chapter 11: Commerce and Industry
Maarten Prak
Chapter 12: Science and Reason
John Henry
Chapter 13: Popular Cultures and Witchcraft
Kathryn Edwards
Chapter 14: Political Thought
Noah Dauber
Chapter 15: Enlightenment Struggles
Dorinda Outram
Chaper 16: French Revolution
Paul Hanson
Chapter 17: Turns and Perspectives
Beat Kümin
Biography
C. Scott Dixon is Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. His previous books include Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740 (2010), Contesting the Reformation (2012), and The Church in the Early Modern Age (2016).
Beat Kümin is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Warwick, U.K. Publications include Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe (2007), Imperial Villages (2019) and the edited collection The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History (3rd edn, 2018).
‘Interpreting Early Modern Europe will provide generations of students with a secure guide to how their subject has evolved and is evolving. Its value is enhanced by the inclusion of extracts from important sources and from the writings of key historians.’
Hamish Scott, Canadian Journal of History, 2022
‘[M]any [of the authors] are themselves responsible for the current shape of important fields in the discipline of history. […] No contribution merely dishes up a standard story; many offer strikingly imaginative rethinkings of the subject at hand. […] In the end, readers will find themselves struck by the ways in which a larger, more original picture of early modern Europe, as a whole, has emerged.’
Mary Lindemann, Renaissance Quarterly, 2022
