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Between the Middle Ages and Modernity
Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
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2006
Summary
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
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Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-5310-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7147-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
321
Product type
Edited Book
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1 Introduction: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World Charles H. Parker No access Pages 1 - 10
2 Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World Jerry H. Bentley No access
3 German Burghers and Peasants in the Reformation and the Peasants' War: Partners or Competitors? Thomas A. Brady Jr. No access
4 A Tale of Two Brothers: Corporate Identity and the Revolt in the Towns of Holland Henk van Nierop No access
5 Family and Community in the Spanish World Carla Rahn Phillips No access
6 Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia William D. Phillips Jr. No access
7 Settle or Return: Migrant Communities in Northern Europe, ca. 1600-1800 Douglas Catterall No access
8 Forcing the Doors of Heathendom: Ethnography, Violence, and the Dutch East India Company Sanjay Subrahmanyam No access
9 Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World Michael N. Pearson No access
10 Custom, Community, and the Crown: Lawyers and the Reordering of French Customary Law Marie Seong-Hak Kim No access
11 The Individual on Trial in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: Between Tradition and Modernity Hugo de Schepper (translated by Elizabeth Bradbury Pollnow) No access
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 No access
13 Embodying the Middle Ages, Advancing Modernity: Religious Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond Ulrike Strasser No access
14 The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the Fifteenth Century Kathryn L. Reyerson No access
15 The Individual Merchant and the Trading Nation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp Donald J. Harreld No access
16 Between Profit and Power: The Dutch East India Company and Institutional Early Modernities in the "Age of Mercantilism" Markus P. M. Vink No access
