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Understanding Early Modern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Bob Scribner
Bob Scribner
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Clare College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 743 - 758
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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1 See Shennan, J. H., The origins of the modem European state 1450–1725 (London, 1974)Google Scholar; Liberty and order in early modern Europe. The subject and the state 1650–1800 (London, 1987)Google Scholar.

2 See Holton, R. J., The transition from feudalism to capitalism (London, 1985)CrossRefGoogle Scholar for the most recent critique of this notion.

3 See, for example, the survey article by van Dülmen, Richard, ‘Formierung der europ7auml;ischen Gesellschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit’ Geschichte und Gesellschaft, VII (1981), 1–41Google Scholar, where it is asserted (p. 1) that ‘the development of the “modern”, as it developed since the sixteenth century, is one of the central problems of research on the early modern period’; and see p. 10 ff on the Reformation's role in this process. Schilling, Heinz, ‘Die Geschichte der nordlichen Niederlande und die Modernisierungtheorie’, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, VII (1982), 475–517Google Scholar is sceptical of the direct application of ‘modernisation theory’ to the early modern period, but still accepts a modified framework of the same kind.

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