Between the Middle Ages and Modernity: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World

by Charles H. Parker

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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First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Anton Tomsinov · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very stimulating collection of articles in honour of James Tracy, one of my favourite historians. Roughly half of the articles were interesting for me: the ones on the Dutch Revolt, lawers of Renaissance France, judges of Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands, Dutch East india Company, etc. — everything on the evolution of Early Modern state and economy was welcome. Articles like the one about religious women of the sixteenth century — less so.