This is a marvellous text book for the undergraduate and a stimulating read for anyone else
Jack Cunningham, Theological Book Review
Six leading experts have contributed their insights into the 16th century in this volume. The economy, politics, society, and secular and religious thought all receive careful thematic treatment and analysis. Many history textbook cliches emerge transformed from their accounts."
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Introduction ; 1. The Economy ; 2. Authority, Power, and Violence ; 3. Society ; 4. The Mind ; 5. The Turmoil of Faith ; 6. Europe and a World Expanded ; Commentary and Conclusion
Accessible treatment of themes by a team of leading scholars provides a perfect overview of the period, including chapters on the economy, politics, society, and secular and religious thought, and the development of empires beyond Europe
Challenges, tests, and revises the received wisdom of past accounts in the light of the most modern historical scholarship
Includes material on regions of Europe often ignored in other general histories of the period, such as the East and the Mediterranean world
Captures the diversity of experience across the continent in a period of tumultuous change
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Euan Cameron is Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History at the Union Theological Seminary, New York, and was previously Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He has published extensively on European history in the age of the Reformation, including The European Reformation and, as editor, Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History, both also published by Oxford University Press.
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Accessible treatment of themes by a team of leading scholars provides a perfect overview of the period, including chapters on the economy, politics, society, and secular and religious thought, and the development of empires beyond Europe
Challenges, tests, and revises the received wisdom of past accounts in the light of the most modern historical scholarship
Includes material on regions of Europe often ignored in other general histories of the period, such as the East and the Mediterranean world
Captures the diversity of experience across the continent in a period of tumultuous change
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ISBN
9780198731887
Publisert
2006
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
461 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
144 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
288
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