First published as hardback in 2015. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Volume 1. Peoples and place -- The cartographic emergence of Europe? / Valerie A. Kivelson -- Weather, climate, and the environment / Christian Pfister -- Disease and medicine / Mary Lindemann -- Historical demography / Anne McCants -- Time / Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum -- Travel and communications / Hamish Scott -- Languages and literacy / Fania Oz-Salzberger -- Printing and printedness / James Raven -- A revolution in information? / Ann Blair and Devin Fitzgerald -- Economic and social trends / Regina Grafe -- The social order / Andreas Gestrich -- Households and family systems / Mikolaj Szoltysek -- Social roles and individual identities / Margaret R. Hunt -- Consumption and material life / Janine Maegraith and Craig Muldrew -- The agrarian west / Tom Scott -- The agrarian east / Edgar Melton -- Country and town in Mediterranean Europe / James S. Amelang -- Towns and urbanization / R.A. Houston -- Manufacturing / Markus Küpker -- The Christian church, 1370-1550 / David J. Collins, S.J. -- Protestantism and its adherents / Ulinka Rublack -- Early modern Catholicism / Nicholas Terpstra -- The world of orthodoxy / Nikolaos A. Chrissidis -- The transformations of Judaism / David B. Ruderman -- Islam and Muslims in Europe / Tijana Krstić -- Cultures of peoples / Caroline Castiglione -- Belief and its limits / Mack P. Holt -- Volume 2. Cultures and power -- A return to the ancient world? / Margaret L. King -- Political thought / Annabel Brett -- The scientific revolution / Kathleen Crowther -- Art and architecture / T.K. Rabb -- Music / Thomas Munck -- Europe's Enlightenment / John Robertson -- Exploration and navigation / Felipe Fernández-Armesto -- Iberian empires / J.H. Elliott -- Northern European empire in Asia : the VOC / Leonard Blussé -- Jesuit missions / Thomas M. Cohen and Emanuele Colombo -- Colonial societies / Gabriel Paquette -- Trade and the global economy / Matthew P. Romaniello -- Asian connections and Chinese comparisons : the unconquered East / R. Bin Wong -- Monarchy in western and central European / Ronald G. Asch -- Monarchy in northern and eastern Europe / Robert Frost -- Authority and popular resistance / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. -- Royal courts / Jeroen Duindam -- Governance / Carlo Capra -- Taxation and state debt / James D. Tracy -- Republics and republicanism / Robert von Friedeburg -- Warfare on land / Carol B. Stevens -- European naval warfare / Louis Sicking -- The Ottoman Empire and Europe / Gábor Aǵoston -- Europe's shifting balance of power / Brendan Simms -- The emergence of diplomacy / Paul M. Dover and Hamish Scott.
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