1st Edition
The European Crisis of the 1590s Essays in Comparative History
Part One
1. Introduction
Peter Clark
2. Dearth, the English Crown and the ‘Crisis of the 1590s’
R.B. Outhwaite
3. A Crisis Contained? The Condition of English Towns in the 1590s
Peter Clark
4. Dearth, Famine and Social Policy in the Dutch Republic at the End of the Sixteenth Century
Leo Noordegraaf
5. Civil War and Natural Disaster in Northern France
Philip Benedict
6. The Later Wars of Religion in the French Midi
M. Greengrass
7. The European Crisis of the 1590s: the Situation in German Towns
Heinz Schilling
8. Northern Italy in the 1590s
N.S. Davidson
9. Southern Italy in the 1590s: Hard Times or Crisis?
Peter Burke
10. Village-Building in Sicily: an Aristocratic Remedy for the Crisis of the 1590s
Timothy Davies
11. Spain: a Failed Transition
James Casey
Part Two
12. Demographic Crisis and Europe in the 1590s
David Souden
13. Popular Disorder
C.S.L. Davies
14. The Impact of War
I.A.A. Thompson
15. The Roles of the State and the Town in the General Crisis of the 1590s
Brian Pullan
16. Yet Another Crisis?
J.H. Elliott
Biography
Peter Clark is Emeritus Professor of European Urban History at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published extensively on European and global urban history
Reviews of the first publication:
‘… a highly successful volume of comparative history…’
— Kristen B. Neuschel, The Journal of Modern History
‘Peter Clark has assembled a first-rate collection of essays which no student of early-modern Europe can afford to ignore. They are likely to stimulate much fruitful debate and investigation for years to come.’
— Roger B. Manning, The Sixteenth Century Journal
