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

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 recreat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parker, Charles H.
Otros Autores: Bentley, Jerry H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1
  • Introduction; Notes; I
  • STRUCTURES; 2
  • Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World; Notes; 3
  • German Burghers and Peasants in the Reformation and the Peasants' War; Burghers and Peasants as Political Partners; Burghers and Peasants as Competitors; Popular Politics, Popular Religion; Notes; 4
  • A Tale of Two Brothers; Corporate Bodies and Corporate Identity; Corporate Identity Under Duress, 1520-1572; Corporate Identity and the Revolt; The Crisis of Urban Corporate Identity; Corporate Identity Restored; Notes.
  • 5
  • Family and Community in the Spanish WorldNotes; II
  • INTERACTIONS; 6
  • Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia; Notes; 7
  • Settle or Return; Migrants and Outsider Status in Early Modern European Society; Following a Traveled Path: Migrants and Precursor Communities; Precursor Communities; Negotiating with Host and Precursor Communities before the Emergence of a Public Enclave; Migrants and Public Community; Conclusion; Notes; 8
  • Forcing the Doors of Heathendom; Notes; 9
  • Creating a Littoral Community; Notes; III
  • TRANSITIONS; 10
  • Custom, Community, and the Crown.
  • Notes11
  • The Individual on Trial in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands; Traditional Tribunals; New Princely Courts; Appeals of Legal Subjects to the "Sovereign Judge"; Conclusion; Notes; 12
  • "They Have Highly Offended the Community of God"; Notes; 13
  • Embodying the Middle Ages, Advancing Modernity; Holy Households and Protestant Nunneries: Religious Women and Political Centralization under Protestantism; Serving God and Government: Religious Virgins, State Formation, and Tridentine Reform; Catholicism Goes Abroad: Religious Virgins and Colonial Empire Building.
  • Final Reflections: Religious Women and the Making of the State SubjectNotes; 14
  • The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the Fifteenth Century; Notes; 15
  • The Individual Merchant and the Trading Nation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp; The Corporation and the Individual; Antwerp's Trading Nations; Merchant Types in Antwerp; Commercial Institutions and Individual Action; Notes; 16
  • Between Profit and Power; Van Leur, Meilink-Roelofsz, Steensgaard, and the "New Institutional Historians"; The "Merchant-Warrior" Revisited: The Early Modern Redistributive Innovation; Afterthoughts; Notes; Index.