Between the Middle Ages and modernity: individual and community in the early modern world

Abstract

Introduction: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World Part I: Structures Chapter 1: Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World Chapter 2: German Burghers and Peasants in the Reformation and the Peasants' War: Partners or Competitors? Chapter 3: A Tale of Two Brothers: Corporate Identity and the Revolt in the Towns of Holland Chapter 4: Family and Community in the Spanish World Part II: Interactions Chapter 5: Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia Chapter 6: Settle or Return: Migrant Communities in Northern Europe, c. 1600-1800 Chapter 7: Forcing the Doors of Heathendom: Ethnography, Violence, and the Dutch East India Company Chapter 8: Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World Part III: Transitions Chapter 9: Custom, Community, and the Crown: Lawyers and the Reordering of French Customary Law Chapter 10: The Individual on Trial in Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: Between Tradition and Modernity Chapter 11: They have highly offended the community of God: Rituals of Ecclesiastical Discipline and Pastoral Membership in the Community in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German Parishes Chapter 12: Embodying the Middle Ages, Advancing Modernity: Religious Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond Chapter 13: The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the Fifteenth Century Chapter 14: The Individual Merchant and the Trading Nation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp Chapter 15: Between Profit and Power: The Dutch East India Company and Institutional Early Modernities in the Age of Mercantilism