James B. Collins is Professor of History at Georgetown University, and Chair of the History Department. Karen L. Taylor is Lecturer in History at Georgetown University.

• Acknowledments. Introduction: Interpreting Early Modern Europe: Karen L. Taylor and James B. Collins.Part I Evolving Early Modern Identities.Introduction.1 The Legacy of Rome: Anthony Pagden.2 Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems: David Eltis.3 History, Myth and, Historical Identity: Karin Friedrich.4 The Theresian School Reform of 1774: James Van Horn Melton.5 The Evil Empire? The Debate on Turkish Despotism in Eighteenth-Century French Political Culture: Thomas Kaiser.Part II Changes in Religion and Cultural Life.Introduction.6 Ira Dei super nos: Denis Crouzet.7 Charitable Activities of Confraternities: Maureen Flynn.8 The Sins of Belief: A Village Remedy for Hoof and Mouth Disease (1796) David Warren Sabean.9 “Dutiful Love and Natural Affection”: Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Modern Netherlands: Sherrin Marshall.Part III The Revolution of the Mind.Introduction.10 A Possible Support for Irreligion: The Sciences: Lucien Febvre.11 The Material Culture of the Church and Incipient Consumerism: Richard A. Goldthwaite.12 From a Culture of Science toward the Enlightenment: Kathleen Wellman.13 Contesting Possession: Patricia Seed.14 Ritual and Print Discipline and Invention: The Fête in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution: Roger Chartier.Part IV The Roles of Women in Early Modern Society Introduction.15 Political, Economic, and Legal Structures: Merry E. Wiesner.16 Women before the Bench: Female Litigants in Early Modern Normandy: Zoë A Schneider.17 Review of The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, by Lawrence Stone: Alan Macfarlane.18 Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia: David L Ransel.19 Public Leisure and the Rise of Salons: Deborah Hertz.Part V The Rise of the Modern State System.Introduction.20 The Crisis in Assumptions about Political Thinking: Felix Gilbert.21 From Contractual Monarchy to Constitutionalism: Gerhard Oestrich.22 Paradoxes of State Power: John Brewer.23 The Power of the King: Antonio Feros Feros.24 The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normany, and Provence: Clare Haru Crowston.Part VI Research Paradigms, Old and New.Introduction.25 The Courtization of the Warriors: Norbert Elias.26 Women on Top: Natalie Zemon Davis.27 The Contrasts: Alfred W. Crosby.28 Transcending East-West Dichotomies: State and Culture Formation in Six Ostensibly Disparate Areas: Victor Lieberman.29 Introduction to The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy: Kenneth Pomeranz.30 Between Carnival and Lent: Paula Findlen.Index

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