Between the Middle Ages and Modernity (eBook)

Individual and Community in the Early Modern World

Jerry H. Bentley, Charles H. Parker (Herausgeber)

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2006
332 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-7147-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the early modern period. Historians have traditionally identified the origins of a modern individualist spirit in the European Renaissance and Reformation. Yet since the 1960s, evolving scholarship has challenged this perspective by calling into question its basic assumptions about individualism, its exclusive focus on elite individuals, and its inherent Eurocentric bias. Arguing that individual identity drew from traditional forms of community, these essays by leading scholars convincingly show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. The authors contend that on the one hand, communities provided the stability that allowed for individual agency, even as they imposed new forms of discipline that confined individuals to more rigid moral and social norms. On the other hand, individuals established forms of association to advance their own economic, social, political, and religious agendas. 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.Contributions by: Jerry H. Bentley, Thomas A. Brady Jr., Douglas Catterall, Donald J. Harreld, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Henk van Nierop, Charles H. Parker, Michael N. Pearson, Carla Rahn Phillips, William D. Phillips Jr., Elizabeth Bradbury Pollnow, Kathryn L. Reyerson, Hugo de Schepper, Ulrike Strasser, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and Markus P. M. Vink

Autor

Charles H. Parker is associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. Jerry H. Bentley is professor of history and director, Center for World History, at the University of Hawai`i.

Inhalt

Introduction: Individual and Community in the Early Modern WorldPart I: StructuresChapter 1: Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern WorldChapter 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 HollandChapter 4: Family and Community in the Spanish WorldPart II: InteractionsChapter 5: Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to AsiaChapter 6: Settle or Return: Migrant Communities in Northern Europe, c. 1600–1800Chapter 7: Forcing the Doors of Heathendom: Ethnography, Violence, and the Dutch East India CompanyChapter 8: Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean WorldPart III: TransitionsChapter 9: Custom, Community, and the Crown: Lawyers and the Reordering of French Customary LawChapter 10: The Individual on Trial in Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: Between Tradition and ModernityChapter 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 ParishesChapter 12: Embodying the Middle Ages, Advancing Modernity: Religious Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe and BeyondChapter 13: The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the Fifteenth CenturyChapter 14: The Individual Merchant and the Trading Nation in Sixteenth-Century AntwerpChapter 15: Between Profit and Power: The Dutch East India Company and Institutional Early Modernities in the Age of Mercantilism

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.12.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-7425-7147-5 / 0742571475
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-7147-1 / 9780742571471