Europe in the Sixteenth Century

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-631-20701-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Assuming no prior knowledge of the period, this engaging narrative history introduces readers to the central features and main developments of sixteenth-century Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pettegree, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.

Table of Contents.

List of Maps and Tables.

List of Illustrations.

1. Time and Space: Living in Sixteenth-Century Europe.

2. Europe in 1500: Political Organization.

3. The Struggle for Italy.

4. The Winds of Change.

5. The Reformation.

6. Charles V and the Defense of Catholic Europe.

7. The Age of Religious War.

8. The French Wars of Religion.

9. The Dutch Revolt.

10. The Making of Protestant Britain.

11. Philip II and the Resolution of the Reformation Conflict.

12. New Worlds.

13. Eastern Europe.

14. Culture.

15. Europe in 1600.

Appendix: List of Major Rulers.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrew's and Director of the St Andrew's Reformation Studies Institute. He has published widely on sixteenth-century history, the English and European Reformations, and the history of the Book, including most recently a survey of The Reformation World (2000).