Between The Middle Ages And Modernity Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World   Charles H. Parker     1
Structures
Early Modern Europe and the Early Modern World   Jerry H. Bentley     13
German Burghers and Peasants in the Reformation and the Peasants' War: Partners or Competitors?   Thomas A. Brady Jr.     33
A Tale of Two Brothers: Corporate Identity and the Revolt in the Towns of Holland   Henk van Nierop     53
Family and Community in the Spanish World   Carla Rahn Phillips     71
Interactions
Individual and Community among the Medieval Travelers to Asia   William D. Phillips Jr.     93
Settle or Return: Migrant Communities in Northern Europe, ca. 1600-1800   Douglas Catterall     109
Forcing the Doors of Heathendom: Ethnography, Violence, and the Dutch East India Company   Sanjay Subrahmanyam     131
Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World   Michael N. Pearson     155
Transitions
Custom, Community, and the Crown: Lawyers and the Reordering of French Customary Law   Marie Seong-Hak Kim     169
The Individual on Trial in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands: Between Tradition and Modernity   Hugo de Schepper   Elizabeth Bradbury Pollnow     187
"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   Susan C. Karant-Nunn     211
Embodying the Middle Ages, Advancing Modernity: Religious Women in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe and Beyond   Ulrike Strasser     231
The Transitional Role of Jacques Coeur in the Fifteenth Century   Kathryn L. Reyerson     253
The Individual Merchant and the Trading Nation in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp   Donald J. Harreld     271
Between Profit and Power: The Dutch East India Company and Institutional Early Modernities in the "Age of Mercantilism"   Markus P. M. Vink     285
Index     307
About the Contributors     319