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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Charles H., 1958-

Bentley, Jerry H., 1949-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

History, Modern.

Individualism--History.

Individualism.

History.

Individuality--History.

Individuality.

Community life--History.

Community life.

Social structure--History.

Social structure.

Intercultural communication--History.

Intercultural communication.

Civilization.

Europe--Civilization--16th century.

Europe.

Europe--Civilization--17th century.

Europe--Civilization--18th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007]

Summary:

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 explore the absorbing theme of individual and community in the early modern period. Taken together, their essays show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. Contributing significantly 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, early modern, and modern history, and on the Reformation and Renaissance.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World / Charles H. Parker 1

Part 1 Structures

2 Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World / Jerry H. Bentley 13

3 German Burghers and Peasants in the Reformation and the Peasants' War: Partners or Competitors? / Thomas A. Brady Jr. 33

4 A Tale of Two Brothers: Corporate Identity and the Revolt in the Towns of Holland / Henk van Nierop 53

5 Family and Community in the Spanish World / Carla Rahn Phillips 71

Part 2 Interactions

6 Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia / William D. Phillips Jr. 93

7 Settle or Return: Migrant Communities in Northern Europe, ca. 1600-1800 / Douglas Catterall 109

8 Forcing the Doors of Heathendom: Ethnography, Violence, and the Dutch East India Company / Sanjay Subrahmanyam 131

9 Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World / Michael N. Pearson 155

Part 3 Transitions

10 Custom, Community, and the Crown: Lawyers and the Reordering of French Customary Law / Marie Seong-Hak Kim 169

11 The Individual on Trial in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: Between Tradition and Modernity / Hugo de Schepper, Elizabeth Bradbury Pollnow 187

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 211

13 Embodying the Middle Ages, Advancing Modernity: Religious Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond / Ulrike Strasser 231

14 The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the Fifteenth Century / Kathryn L. Reyerson 253

15 The Individual Merchant and the Trading Nation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp / Donald J. Harreld 271

16 Between Profit and Power: The Dutch East India Company and Institutional Early Modernities in the "Age of Mercantilism" / Markus P. M. Vink 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742553094

0742553108

OCLC:

68799422

Publisher Number:

9780742553095

9780742553101