Europe in the Sixteenth Century

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A General History of Europe General Editor: Denys Hay
EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Second Edition
This famous book - a general survey of Europe in the era of 'Renaissance and Reformation' for students and general readers - was hailed on publication as 'an outstanding addition to an already distinguished series' by the English Historical Review. Now, twenty years after its first appearance, the two authors (with a new colleague, Gerald Bowler) have reworked the original text in the light of a whole new generation of scholarship. The book has been revised, rewritten and expanded; and this eagerly-awaited Second Edition now fills one of the last remaining gaps in the current revision of the entire General History of Europe sequence.
As before, the new text looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its different aspects through the various political structures of the age -empires,... Tovább

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A General History of Europe General Editor: Denys Hay
EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Second Edition
This famous book - a general survey of Europe in the era of 'Renaissance and Reformation' for students and general readers - was hailed on publication as 'an outstanding addition to an already distinguished series' by the English Historical Review. Now, twenty years after its first appearance, the two authors (with a new colleague, Gerald Bowler) have reworked the original text in the light of a whole new generation of scholarship. The book has been revised, rewritten and expanded; and this eagerly-awaited Second Edition now fills one of the last remaining gaps in the current revision of the entire General History of Europe sequence.
As before, the new text looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its different aspects through the various political structures of the age -empires, monarchies, city-republics - and how they functioned and related to one another.
A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the growing importance of town-Jife in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of poUtical change. An entirely new chapter on 'Social Life', however, now takes account of new work on demographic history, on attitudes to women and the family, and on the impact of education, disease and war. The authors also give full weight to the resplendent cultural achievements of the age; and the chapter on Literature has been completely rewritten to give more attention to its international dimension, to popular culture and to the contribution of women.
Central to the book, however, as to the century itself, is the Reformation and the religious and intellectual movements that fuelled it. Religious reform is now seen less as the result of purely political forces, and its success gauged less by official recognition than by the slower processes of popular acceptance. The material on popular religion, witchcraft and magic has been greatly expanded; and the discussion of ideas - particularly the history of political theory and the origins of the scientific revolution - has also been extensively reworked.
Until his retirement in 1984, H.G. Koenigsberger was Professor of History at King's College, University of London; George L. Mosse is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; and G.Q. Bowler teaches history at the Canadian Nazarene College, Winnipeg and at the Univeristy of Manitoba.
Cover illustration: detail from an early sixteenth-century painting of the market on the Perlachplatz in Augsburg. Reproduced by kind permission of the Stadlische Kuntstammlungen, Augsburg.
ISBN D-SflE-M^B^O-D Vissza