The European World 1500–1800

Beat Kümin is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Warwick, UK. His previous publications include Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe (2007) and Imperial Villages: Cultures of Political Freedom in the German Lands​​ (2019). He has also - with C. Scott Dixon - co-edited the partnering volume Interpreting Early Modern Europe (2019), which supports students with surveys of key debates in early modern historiography.

Part I: Starting Points

I.1 Introduction

Beat Kümin

I.2 Europe in 1500

Humfrey Butters

Part II: Society and Economy

II.1 Environments

John Morgan

II.2

Gender and Family

Bernard Capp

II.3 Rural Society

Steve Hindle

II.4 Urban Society

Penny Roberts

II.5 Marginals and Deviants

Penny Roberts

II.6 Sickness and Health

Claudia Stein

II.7 The Early Modern Economy

Steve Hindle

Part III: Religion

III.1 Church and People at the Close of the Middle Ages

Beat Kümin and Peter Marshall

III.1A The Long Reformation – an introduction

Beat Kümin

III.2 The Long Reformation – Lutheran

Henry J. Cohn

III.3 The Long Reformation – Reformed

Penny Roberts

III.4 The Long Reformation – Catholic

Anne Gerritsen, Kevin Gould and Peter Marshall

III.5 Religious Culture in Early Modern Europe

Peter Marshall

III.6 Jews and Muslims

Henry J. Cohn†

Part IV: The Wider World

IV.1 Beyond Europe c. 1500

Anne Gerritsen and Anthony McFarlane

IV.2 European Relations with the Ottoman World

James Baldwin

IV.3 Expanding Horizons

Anne Gerritsen and Anthony McFarlane

IV.4 Europe Overseas

Anthony McFarlane

IV.5 The Global Exchange of Goods

Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello

IV.6 Europe and the World c. 1800

Anne Gerritsen and Anthony McFarlane

Part V: Culture

V.1 Renaissance

Humfrey Butters

V.2 Arts and Society

Luca Molà

V.3 From Pen to Print

Mark Knights and Angela McShane

V.4 Food and Drink Cultures

Rebecca Earle and Beat Kümin

V.5 Popular Culture(s)

Bernard Capp

V.6 Witchcraft and Magic

Penny Roberts

V.7 The Scientific Revolution

Claudia Stein

V.8 Enlightenment

Colin Jones

Part VI: Politics

A) Surveys

VI.1 The Theory and Practice of Politics and Government

Humfrey Butters

VI.2 Dynastic Politics, Religious Conflict and Reason of State c.1500-1650

Humfrey Butters and Henry J. Cohn

VI.3 European Politics from the Peace of Westphalia to the French Revolution c.1650-1800

Colin Jones and Mark Knights

B) Themes

VI. 4 Courts and Centres

Stéphane van Damme and Janet Dickinson

VI.5 Centre and Periphery

Steve Hindle and Beat Kümin

VI.6 The Impact of War

Jonathan Davies

VI.7 Riot and Rebellion

Bernard Capp

VI.8 Revolution

Bernard Capp and Colin Jones