Early Modern Europe

12 Aug 2008 14:44

---

See also: Alchemy; Demonology; Erasmus; Millenarianism; the Renaissance (a sub-set of this period); the Scientific Revolution; the Witch-Craze

Recommended (naturally, very misc.):
• Peter Burke, The Renaissance Sense of the Past [Extends somewhat before and after the Renaissance proper]
• Anne Goldgar, Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680--1750 ["examines the everyday interactions and values that underpinned the Republic of Letters --- an informal social and cultural community of scholars throughout Europe who, during the period immediately preceding the Enlightenment, traveled to meet each other, exchanged letters, contributed to scholarly journals, and helped with the publication of other scholars' work."]
• Jonathan Israel, The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477--1806
• Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History
• Robert Mandrou, From Humanism to Science, 1480--1700
• Otto Mayr, Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe [Politics and Pendula]
• Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500--1800
• Richard H. Popkin, The History of Skepticism: From Erasmus to Descartes

To read:
• Walter G. Andrews and Memhmet Kalpakli, The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society
• William J. Bouwsma, The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550--1640
• Rebecca Bushnell, A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice
• David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life among the Pirates
• Cunningham and Grell, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe
• Jonathan Dewald, Aristocratic Expereince and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570--1715 [online]
• Robert S. DuPlessis, Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
• Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revoultion in Early Modern Europe
• Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• Paula Findlen
  • Athanasius Kircher
  • Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy [Blurb]
• Don Garrett and Edward Barbanell (eds.), Encyclopedia of Empiricism [Focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries]
• Anne Goldgar, Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age
• Mary S. Hartman, The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past [blurb]
• Henry Heller, Labour, Science, and Technology in France, 1500--1620
• R. Po-chia Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 [Blurb]
• Victoria Tin-Bor Hui, War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe [Blurb]
• Johan Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages
• Henry Kamen, Empire [History of the Spanish empire, 1492--1763]
• Donald F. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe
• Richard Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe [Or, how capitalism was born from the quarrels of tyrants]
• Robert Mandrou, Introduction to Modern France, 1500--1640: An Essay in Historical Psychology
• John Levi Martin, "The objective and subjective rationalization of war", Theory and Society 34 (2005): 229--275 [Pace Weber and Foucault, "[c]lose attention to the question of rationalization and the history of infantry warfare, however, suggests that far from representing a watershed change from non-rationalized to rationalized war, the early-modern period was more like other rapid expansions of armies based on recruitment of commoners, and had little to do with the distinctive characteristics of the emerging nation-states."]
• William G. Naphy, Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps, 1530--1640
• Geoffrey Parker, Success Is Never Final: Empire, War, and Faith in Early Modern Europe
• Geoffrey Parker and Lesley M. Smith, The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
• Annabel Patterson
  • Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England
  • Early Modern Liberalism [Blurb]
  • Nobody's Perfect: A New Whig Interpretation of History [i.e., a new interpretation of the history of the Whigs]
• Mary Elizabeth Perry, The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain [Blurb]
• John Rogers, The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton
• Margaret F. Rosenthal, The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice [Blurb]
• Moshe Sluhovsky, Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, & Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism [Blurb]
• Rodney Stark, For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery
• James D. Tracy, Europe's Reformations, 1450--1650
• Perez Zagorin, How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West [Blurb]