Resrach Paper
The Early Modern Period
General Bibliography
The recommended survey text is Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (Cambridge U.P., 2006). In preparation for this section of the core course, you should read chapter 1.
Other one-volume surveys include:
Euan Cameron, ed., Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History (1999): stimulating thematic essays, but not the place to get your facts straight George Huppert, After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe (2nd ed. 1998): highly recommended, readable overview but only covers social history
Numerous publishers have a multi-volume series that covers the early modern period. They include ---
Norton: Eugene Rice & Anthony Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (2nd ed. 1994) Richard S. Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715 (2nd ed. 1979) Isser Woloch, Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 (1982)
Macmillan: Richard Mackenney, Sixteenth Century Europe (1993) Thomas Munck, Seventeenth Century Europe (1990) Jeremy Black, Eighteenth Century Europe (1990)
Oxford University Press: Richard Bonney, The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660 (1991) William Doyle, The Old European Order, 1660-1800 (2nd ed. 1992)
Blackwell: J.H. Elliott, Europe Divided, 1559-1598 (2nd ed. 2000) Geoffrey Parker, Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648 (2nd ed. 2001) J. Stoye, Europe Unfolding, 1648-1668 (2nd ed. 2000) Olwen Hufton, Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789 (2nd ed. 2000)
Penguin/Allen Lane: Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 (2007) (other volumes in preparation)
Cambridge University Press has a paperback textbook series entitled `new approaches to european history’. Intended as high-level introductions to specific episodes and topics, volumes in this series tend to be of high quality. I strongly recommend them.
In addition to the Further Reading lists
General Bibliography
The recommended survey text is Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (Cambridge U.P., 2006). In preparation for this section of the core course, you should read chapter 1.
Other one-volume surveys include:
Euan Cameron, ed., Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History (1999): stimulating thematic essays, but not the place to get your facts straight George Huppert, After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe (2nd ed. 1998): highly recommended, readable overview but only covers social history
Numerous publishers have a multi-volume series that covers the early modern period. They include ---
Norton: Eugene Rice & Anthony Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (2nd ed. 1994) Richard S. Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715 (2nd ed. 1979) Isser Woloch, Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 (1982)
Macmillan: Richard Mackenney, Sixteenth Century Europe (1993) Thomas Munck, Seventeenth Century Europe (1990) Jeremy Black, Eighteenth Century Europe (1990)
Oxford University Press: Richard Bonney, The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660 (1991) William Doyle, The Old European Order, 1660-1800 (2nd ed. 1992)
Blackwell: J.H. Elliott, Europe Divided, 1559-1598 (2nd ed. 2000) Geoffrey Parker, Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648 (2nd ed. 2001) J. Stoye, Europe Unfolding, 1648-1668 (2nd ed. 2000) Olwen Hufton, Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789 (2nd ed. 2000)
Penguin/Allen Lane: Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 (2007) (other volumes in preparation)
Cambridge University Press has a paperback textbook series entitled `new approaches to european history’. Intended as high-level introductions to specific episodes and topics, volumes in this series tend to be of high quality. I strongly recommend them.
In addition to the Further Reading lists
Bibliography: The recommended survey text is Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (Cambridge U.P., 2006). In preparation for this section of the core course, you should read chapter 1. Other one-volume surveys include: Euan Cameron, ed., Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History (1999): stimulating thematic essays, but not the place to get your facts straight George Huppert, After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe (2nd ed. 1998): highly recommended, readable overview but only covers social history Numerous publishers have a multi-volume series that covers the early modern period Norton: Eugene Rice & Anthony Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (2nd ed Richard S. Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715 (2nd ed. 1979) Isser Woloch, Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789 (1982) Macmillan: Richard Mackenney, Sixteenth Century Europe (1993) Thomas Munck, Seventeenth Century Europe (1990) Jeremy Black, Eighteenth Century Europe (1990) Oxford University Press: Richard Bonney, The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660 (1991) William Doyle, The Old European Order, 1660-1800 (2nd ed. 1992) Blackwell: J.H. Elliott, Europe Divided, 1559-1598 (2nd ed. 2000) Geoffrey Parker, Europe in Crisis, 1598-1648 (2nd ed J. Stoye, Europe Unfolding, 1648-1668 (2nd ed. 2000) Olwen Hufton, Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789 (2nd ed Penguin/Allen Lane: Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 (2007) (other volumes in preparation) A few reference works: Thomas Brady, Heiko Oberman, & James Tracy, eds., Handbook of European History, 1400-1600, 2 vols Chris Cook and Philip Broadhead, The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763 (2006): timelines, genealogies, statistics, etc. Paul F. Grendler, ed., Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (1999) Hans J The New Cambridge Modern History Atlas, edited by H.C. Darby and Harold Fullard (volume XIV of The New Cambridge Modern History (1970) 1 George Huppert, After the Black Death (2nd ed. 1998) Henry Kamen, Early Modern European Society (2000) Fernand Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life (1972) (= vol. 1 of Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century) Pierre Goubert, The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century (Eng Keith Wrightson, English Society, 1580-1680 (1982) Michael W Beatrice Gottlieb, The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age (1994) Merry E Documents (a) Petition requesting the prohibition of grain exports, The Azores (Portugal), 1591 (b) Robert Brenner, A Good Speed to Virginia (1609) There is nothing more dangerous for the estate of commonwealths than when the people do increase to a greater multitude and number than may justly parallel with the largeness of the place and country Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance Thought and Its Sources (1979) – or any other book by Kristeller Wallace K Charles Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (1995) Peter Burke, The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy (rev Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (1996) Jill Kraye, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Cambridge, 1996) James Hankins, ed., Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections (2000) Paula Findlen, ed., The Italian Renaissance: the essential readings (2002) Cornelis Augustijn, Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence (Eng. trans. 1991) Documents (a) Francesco Petrarch, Letter to Cicero (1345) (Familiarium Rerum Libri, xxiv, 3)