Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Covering European history from the development of the printing press to the French Revolution, this accessible and engaging textbook offers an innovative account of people's lives in the early modern period and the global context of European developments. The text takes in Europe in its entirety as well as the European colonies overseas and integrates religious, ethnic, gender, class, and regional differences. Throughout the text maps, illustrations, timelines, and textboxes of original sources and featured topics illuminate the narrative, with online resources including further primary source material.

Edited by Leslie Brubaker, Julia M. H. Smith

This book uses gender analysis to study power and culture between c. 300 and 900. It examines the women, men and eunuchs who lived in the late Roman, Byzantine, Islamic and western European civilisations, and assesses the ways in which gender identity was established and manifested in written and material cultural forms. In charting the shifting gender order of these centuries, it emphasises the integral relationship between the masculine and feminine by exploring costume, attitudes to the body, social and political institutions and a wide range of literary genres.

Mary Lindemann

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, in the highly successful series of New Approaches, offers undergraduate students a concise introduction to a subject rich in historical excitement and interest. Mary Lindemann, a distinguished scholar of the history of medicine, writes with exceptional clarity and examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective rather than a narrowly scientific one. She focuses on the experience of illness and on patients and folk healers as much as on the rise of medical science, doctors and hospitals.

Peter Burke

In this magisterial study, Peter Burke explores major themes in the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution. One major theme is the relation between languages and communities and the place of language as a way of identifying others, as well as a symbol of one's own identity. A second, linked theme is that of competition: between Latin and the vernaculars, between different vernaculars, dominant and subordinate, and finally between different varieties of the same vernacular.

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Although the importance of the advent of printing for the Western world has long been recognized, it was Elizabeth Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This edition gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. After summarizing the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, it goes on to discuss how printing affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.

Merry E. Wiesner

This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative textbook. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the female life-cycle, literacy, women's economic role, artistic creation, female piety - and witchcraft - and the relationship between gender and power. Accessible, engrossing, and lively, this book will be of central importance for courses in gender history, early modern Europe, and comparative history.

Florin Curta

Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages stood at a crossroads of trade and crusading routes, within the sphere of influence of both the Byzantine Orthodox Church and Latin Christendom. This innovative and authoritative survey draws on historical and archaeological sources in the narration of 750 years of the region's history. Among a number of key themes it addresses the rise of medieval states, the conversion to Christianity, the monastic movement inspired by developments in Western Europe and in Byzantium and the role of material culture in the representation of power.