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The Sixteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Sixteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: The Short Oxford History of Europe
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The sixteenth century witnessed some of the most abrupt and
traumatic transformations ever seen in European society and
culture. Population growth strained the old fabric of community and
economic relations. New supplies of precious metals from east and
west re-wrote the rules of finance and commerce. Politics was
dominated first by the gladiatorial struggle of two great
Renaissance monarchs, then by the bitter and bloody entanglement of
religion and politics. Society became more disciplined but also
more fragmented. Yet this was also the age when the Renaissance
became a European rather than just an Italian phenomenon, an age of
art, architecture, and literature, of unprecedented reflection on
the thinking person's role in government and civic life. It was the
era of the Reformation and Catholic reform, when the ideals and
priorities of the life of faith were examined and reshaped in the
light of new readings of Scripture. For the first time Europeans
not only learned more about the world beyond their continent; they
reached out and grasped huge new overseas empires. Six leading
scholars in their respective fields have here contributed their
insights into the challenging and tumultuous sixteenth century. The
economy, politics, society, and secular and religious thought all
receive careful thematic treatment and analysis. A detailed picture
also emerges of how Europeans made and managed their overseas
empires. The volume challenges, tests, and revises the received
wisdom of past accounts in the light of the most modern
scholarship. The diverse experiences of regions of Europe often
ignored, including the East and the Mediterranean, receive
particular attention where their destinies were different from the
more better-known experiences of France and Germany. Many cliches
of textbook history, from the multiple 'revolutions' to the rise of
the nation-states, emerge transformed from this account.
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