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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 show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. Offering an important contribution 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 Renaissance and Reformation.
List of contents
Introduction: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
Part I: Structures
Chapter 1: Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World
Chapter 2: German Burghers and Peasants in the Reformation and the Peasants' War: Partners or Competitors?
Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Brothers: Corporate Identity and the Revolt in the Towns of Holland
Chapter 4: Family and Community in the Spanish World
Part II: Interactions
Chapter 5: Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia
Chapter 6: Settle or Return: Migrant Communities in Northern Europe, c. 1600-1800
Chapter 7: Forcing the Doors of Heathendom: Ethnography, Violence, and the Dutch East India Company
Chapter 8: Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World
Part III: Transitions
Chapter 9: Custom, Community, and the Crown: Lawyers and the Reordering of French Customary Law
Chapter 10: The Individual on Trial in Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: Between Tradition and Modernity
Chapter 11: "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
Chapter 12: Embodying the Middle Ages, Advancing Modernity: Religious Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond
Chapter 13: The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 14: The Individual Merchant and the Trading Nation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Chapter 15: Between Profit and Power: The Dutch East India Company and Institutional Early Modernities in the Age of Mercantilism
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Edited by Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley
Summary
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, this book explores the theme of individual and community in the early modern period.
