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The Sixteenth Century

Edited by Euan Cameron

Price: £62.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-873188-7
Publication date: 23 March 2006
288 pages, 9 Maps, 216x138 mm
Series: The Short Oxford History of Europe
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  • 'This is a marvellous text book for the undergraduate and a stimulating read for anyone else' - Jack Cunningham, Theological Book Review

Description
  • Accessible treatment of themes by a team of leading scholars provides a perfect overview of the period, including chapters on the economy, politics, society, and secular and religious thought, and the development of empires beyond Europe
  • Challenges, tests, and revises the received wisdom of past accounts in the light of the most modern historical scholarship
  • Includes material on regions of Europe often ignored in other general histories of the period, such as the East and the Mediterranean world
  • Captures the diversity of experience across the continent in a period of tumultuous change

Readership: Undergraduate History students opting for courses in early modern European history. Also A-level students studying early modern history and for the general reader interested in early modern Europe and the Reformation.

Contents
Introduction , Euan Cameron
1. The Economy , Tom Scott
2. Authority, Power, and Violence , Mark Greengrass
3. Society , Christopher Black
4. The Mind , Charles G. Nauert
5. The Turmoil of Faith , Euan Cameron
6. Europe and a World Expanded , David Brading
Commentary and Conclusion , Euan Cameron

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Euan Cameron, Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York

Contributors:Christopher Black, University of Glasgow
David Brading, University of Cambridge
Euan Cameron, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield
Charles G. Nauert, University of Missouri-Columbia
Tom Scott, University of Liverpool

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European history: c 1500 to c 1750
History of religion

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