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    Selected Abstracts

    Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency and Identity edited by Andrea Pearson Women, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe edited by Sylvia Brown

    GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2009
    FIONA WILLIAMSON
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Origins of English Puritanism

    HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 4 2007
    Karl Gunther
    Author's Introduction This essay makes the familiar observation that when one part of an historiography changes, so must other parts. Here the author observes that the phenomenon known as puritanism has dramatically changed meanings over the past quarter century, though the change has focused on the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. He asks that we consider the impact of that change on the earlier period, when puritanism in England had its origins. Focus Questions 1Why is the author unable to posit an answer to his question? 2If new study of the origins of puritanism were to reveal that it was not a mainstream Calvinist movement, but a radical critique of the Henrician and early Elizabethan church, how would that affect the new orthodoxy in Puritan studies? Author Recommends * A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation (Batsford, 1989). The starting place for all modern discussions of the English Reformation and the origins of both conservative and radical protestantism in England. Dicken's view is that the reformation was a mixture of German ideas, English attitudes, and royal leadership. * Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c.1400,1580 (Yale Univeristy Press, 2005). What was it that the Reformation reformed? In order to understand early English protestantism, one needs to see it within the context of Catholicism. Eamon Duffy rejects the narrative of the Catholic church told by Protestant reformers and demonstrates the ruthlessness of the reformation. * Ethan Shagen, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Shagan asks the question, how is a conservative population energized to undertake the overthrow of their customs and beliefs? He too is centrally concerned with the issue of how radical was the English Reformation. * Brad Gregory, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe (Harvard University Press, 1999). Nothing better expressed the radicalism of religious belief than the dual process of martyrdom, the willingness of the established religion to make martyrs of its enemies and of dissendents to be martyrs to their cause. Gregory explores this phenomenon across the confessional divide and comes to surprising conclusions about similarities and differences. Online Materials 1. Puritan Studies on the Web http://puritanism.online.fr A site of resources for studies of Puritanism, this contains a large number of primary sources and links to other source sites. The Link to the English Reformation is particularly useful. 2. The Royal Historical Society Bibliography http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/dataset.asp The bibliography of the Royal Historical Society contains a complete listing of articles and books on all aspects of British history. Subject searches for Puritanism or the English Reformation will yield hundreds of works to choose from. [source]

    Horror Crime or Bad Habit?

    JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 4 2008
    Blasphemy in Premodern Europe
    In public debates the issue of blasphemy is often marked as a modern phenomenon. In fact, blasphemous speech acts were also an integral part of everyday life in the Middle Ages and in Early Modern Europe. Cursing and swearing, oaths and other blasphemous utterances were used in all strata of society. While enraged preachers condemned this mortal sin and various laws threatened with capital punishment, the common practice was different as most blasphemies passed with minor punishments or even without any kind of prosecution. Attacks on the honour of God were constituent elements of everyday conflict behaviour. Blasphemy therefore must not be misinterpreted as indication of religious indifference or even unbelief, but rather as different usage of the religious sphere in premodern times. [source]

    Defining Community in Early Modern Europe , Edited by Michael J. Halvorson and Karen E. Spierling

    RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 2 2010
    Christine Kooi
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe , By Andrew Spicer

    RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2010
    R. Ward Holder
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe Edited by Will Coster and Andrew Spicer

    RENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 4 2006
    Alison Forrestal
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe.

    THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2009
    All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance, By Benjamin J. Kaplan, Salvation in the Iberian World.
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe: For, Against, and Beyond Persecution and Toleration.

    THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2007
    Edited by John Christian Laursen
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Divided By Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe , By Benjamin J. Kaplan

    THE HISTORIAN, Issue 4 2009
    Brad S. Gregory
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon , By David Lederer

    THE HISTORIAN, Issue 1 2008
    Pompa Banerjee
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]

    The Visual Arts and the Theatre in Early Modern Europe

    ART HISTORY, Issue 2 2010
    Caroline Van Eck
    First page of article [source]

    Progress and poverty in early modern Europe

    ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2003
    Robert C. Allen
    An econometric model of economic development is estimated with data from leading European countries between 1300 and 1800. The model explores the impact of population, enclosure, empire, representative government, technology, and literacy on urbanization, agricultural productivity, proto-industry, and the real wage. Simulations show that the main factors leading to economic success in north-western Europe were the growth of American and Asian commerce and, especially, the innovations underlying the export of the new draperies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The enclosure of the open fields, representative government, and the spread of literacy did not play major roles. [source]

    Factor mobility and fiscal policy in the EU: policy issues and analytical approaches

    ECONOMIC POLICY, Issue 31 2000
    David E. Wildasin
    Increased integration of labour and capital markets creates significant challenges for the welfare states of modern Europe. Taxation of capital and labour that finances extensive programmes of cash and in-kind redistribution creates incentives for capital owners and workers to locate in regions where they obtain favourable fiscal treatment. Competition among countries for mobile resources constrains their ability to alter the distribution of income and may lead to reductions in the size and scope of redistributive policies. Mobility of labour and capital is imperfect, however. Recent trends indicate that labour and capital are neither perfectly mobile nor perfectly immobile, but rather adjust gradually to market conditions and economic policies. This paper presents an explicitly dynamic analysis showing that governments can achieve some redistribution when it is costly for factors of production to relocate. As the costs of factor mobility fall, however, the effectiveness of redistributive policies is more limited, and governments have weaker incentives to pursue them. Liberalized immigration policies, EU enlargement, and other steps that promote integration of the factors markets of Western Europe with those of surrounding regions thus present a challenge to policy-makers if they also wish to maintain fiscal systems with extensive redistribution. [source]

    The Ideology of Early Modern Colonisation

    HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2004
    Andrew Fitzmaurice
    This article argues that colonial ideologies were the concern of more than a privileged élite in early modern Europe. The article shows that early modern English colonisation was torn between the humanistic pursuit of glory, or greatness, and humanist and scholastic scepticism of empire. The article also addresses the relation between state formation and European expansion, and concludes that these processes were inherently linked rather than merely parallel. Historians have focused on the Machiavellian character of the early modern European ideology of greatness, or grandezza. They have accordingly concluded that where grandezza informed the pursuit of empire, it was driven by the Machiavellian concern with virtue rather than profit. According to such accounts, early modern ideologies of empire were uncomfortable with commerce. It is argued here that these accounts have overlooked the emergence of an alternative account of grandezza in early modern Europe, which presented commerce as the means to greatness. [source]

    Growing Sovereignty: Modeling the Shift from Indirect to Direct Rule

    INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2010
    Lars-Erik Cederman
    Drawing on theories of historical sociology, we model the emergence of the territorial state in early modern Europe. Our modeling effort focuses on systems change with respect to the shift from indirect to direct rule. We first introduce a one-dimensional model that captures the tradeoff between organizational and geographic distances. In a second step, we present an agent-based model that features states with a varying number of organizational levels. This model explicitly represents causal mechanisms of conquest and internal state-building through organizational bypass processes. The computational findings confirm our hypothesis that technological change is sufficient to trigger the emergence of modern, direct-state hierarchies. Our theoretical findings indicate that the historical transformation from indirect to direct rule presupposes a logistical, rather than the commonly assumed exponential, form of the loss-of-strength gradient. [source]

    ,Amsterdam is Standing on Norway' Part II: The Global North Atlantic in the Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century

    JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE, Issue 2 2010
    JASON W. MOORE
    ,Amsterdam is standing on Norway', this was a popular saying in the Dutch Republic of the seventeenth century. There was more than one inflection to the phrase. Amsterdam was, in the first instance, built atop a subterranean forest of Norwegian origin. But southern Norway was also a vital resource zone, subordinated to Amsterdam-based capital. This paper follows the movement of strategic commodity frontiers within early modern Europe from the standpoint of capitalism as world-ecology, joining in dialectical unity the production of capital and the production of nature. Our geographical focus is trained upon the emergence of the Global North Atlantic, that zone providing the strategic raw materials and food supplies indispensable to the consolidation of capitalism , timber, naval stores, metals, cereals, fish and whales. I argue for a broader geographical perspective on these movements, one capable of revealing the dialectical interplay of frontiers on all sides of the Atlantic. From its command posts in Amsterdam, Dutch capital deployed American silver in the creation of successive frontiers within Europe, transforming Scandinavian and Baltic regions. The frontier character of these transformations was decisive, premised on drawing readily exploitable supplies of land and labour power into the orbit of capital. We see in northern Europe precisely what we see in the Americas , a pattern of commodity-centred environmental transformation, and thence relative ecological exhaustion, from which the only escape was renewed global conquest and ever-wider cycles of combined and uneven development. [source]

    How Europe is portrayed in exhibitions

    MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2001
    Jean-Yves Marin
    Jean-Yves Marin is director of the Museum of Normandy in Caen and president of the International Committee of the Museums of Archaelogy and History of ICOM. With a long international and European experience in the organization of exhibitions, he is also a renowned medievalist and general superintendent of a large number of archaelogical and history exhibitions. In this article, he describes the forces behind the growth in the European public's desire to know their shared past and understand their origins, and the corresponding trend to identify and recognize the intermixing of the peoples of Europe in all their complexity. He believes that this evolution encourages a revision of the concept of the history museum and recommends an example that would integrate objects and work with the historical dimension , including the delicate political aspects of the origins of modern Europe , to enable the creation of a global museographic discourse on European history. [source]

    Towards a Metaphorology of the Novel

    ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 3 2006
    Metaphor, Narration, the Early Modern Novel
    Most of the attempts to define the novel seem condemned in advance to an insignificant vagueness or a restricted view on the genre. Not surprisingly, writers have often resorted to analogy and metaphorical language to qualify the genre and talk about the essential aims of their work, thus overcoming the novel's resistance to definition. After briefly examining a number of theoretical implications that this question raises, I will investigate two metaphorical constellations with which the novelistic genre has been identified in early modern Europe (Mateo Alemán and the Marquis de Sade). I will tackle these metaphors not only as rhetorical devices, but also and foremost as authentic ways of grasping the connections between writer, novel form and reader on the one hand, and the novel and its larger cultural-historical context on the other. As such, this essay wants to be a contribution to what one could call, in line with Hans Blumenberg, a metaphorology of the novel. [source]

    ,Condemned by some, read by all': the attempt to suppress the publications of the Louvain humanist Erycius Puteanus in 1608,

    RENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 3 2010
    Demmy Verbeke
    Numerous examples of censorship in early modern Europe prove that church and state frequently collaborated in their efforts to prevent the publication and distribution of heretical or seditious works. Yet, the prosecution of Erycius Puteanus (1574,1646) on account of his De conviviorum luxu epistola (1608) shows that a publication could also be opposed on other than religious or political grounds. The case, as well as the strategic presentation of Puteanus'Comus, published later that same year, demonstrates how an early modern author could even find support with political, legal and ecclesiastical dignitaries to overcome opposition against a questionable publication. Moreover, this study sheds new light on the continuing success of the Comus, which became one of the standard seventeenth-century texts satirizing excessive eating and drinking. [source]

    Isaac Laughing: Caravaggio, non-traditional imagery and traditional identification

    ART HISTORY, Issue 5 2001
    Conrad Rudolph
    From the time it was completed nearly four hundred years ago, Caravaggio's painting of a nude boy embracing a ram (today in the Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome) has confounded viewers as to its subject, which has been variously called ,Pastor friso', Saint John the Baptist, Corydon, Paris, and ,nude youth with a ram'. This essay argues that none of these titles accounts for what we see in the painting and, no less importantly, what we do not. Using a range of modes of analysis, we propose a new reading of the painting as a variant on the theme of the Sacrifice of Isaac, one that has fascinating implications for Caravaggio's conception of the viewer,subject relationship and which contributes to a deepening of our understanding of one of early modern Europe's most innovative and provocative painters. [source]