The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however,
the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject
during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established
field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity.

Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, social and economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.


Author: Hamish Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/05/2018
Pages: 816
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.95lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780198820567

About the Author

Hamish Scott has published extensively on eighteenth-century international relations, government and enlightened absolutism, and on the early modern nobility. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews and is now a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He is also a Fellow of
the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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