This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between
individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the
early modern period. Historians have traditionally identified the
origins of a modern individualist spirit in the European
Renaissance and Reformation. Yet since the 1960s, evolving
scholarship has challenged this perspective by calling into
question its basic assumptions about individualism, its exclusive
focus on elite individuals, and its inherent Eurocentric bias.
Arguing that individual identity drew from traditional forms of
community, these essays by leading scholars convincingly show that
individual and community created and recreated one another in the
major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern
times. The authors contend that on the one hand, communities
provided the stability that allowed for individual agency, even as
they imposed new forms of discipline that confined individuals to
more rigid moral and social norms. On the other hand, individuals
established forms of association to advance their own economic,
social, political, and religious agendas. Offering an important
contribution to our understanding both of the early modern period
and of its historiography, this volume will be an invaluable
resource for scholars working in the fields of medieval, early
modern, and modern history, and on the Renaissance and Reformation.
Contributions by: Jerry H. Bentley, Thomas A. Brady Jr., Douglas
Catterall, Donald J. Harreld, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Marie Seong-Hak
Kim, Henk van Nierop, Charles H. Parker, Michael N. Pearson, Carla
Rahn Phillips, William D. Phillips Jr., Elizabeth Bradbury Pollnow,
Kathryn L. Reyerson, Hugo de Schepper, Ulrike Strasser, Sanjay
Subrahmanyam, and Markus P. M. Vink
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