Early Modern Europe Reading List
Part One: 1300-1600
August 2008
Prof. Margaret L. King
Part One (1300-1600)
Compiled by Prof. Margaret L. King
Italian cities, economy, and politics
Humanism: the studia humanitatis and civic humanism
Humanism: philology, philosophy, historiography
Italian Renaissance society and culture
Machiavelli, Castiglione, and the later Italian Renaissance
Erasmus and the northern Renaissance; printing and literacy
Protestant Reformation
Catholic Reformation
Exploration, encounter, and world trade
Economy and society, 15th and 16th centuries
Nation states and war: to 1600
Women, learning, and the witchhunt
1. Italian cities, economy, and politics
Brucker, Gene A. Renaissance Florence. Rev. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983; rpt. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Dandelet, Thomas James. Spanish Rome, 1500-1700. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Hurlburt, Holly S. The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500: Wife and Icon. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
Jones, Philip. The Italian City-State: From Commune to Signoria. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Kent, F. W. Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Kirk, Thomas Allison. Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Martines, Lauro. April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Martines, Lauro. Power and Imagination: City-States in the Italian Renaissance. New York: Knopf, 1979. PB Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Miskimin, Harry A. The Economy of Early Renaissance Europe, 1300-1460. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969
Najemy, John M. A History of Florence 1200-1575. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2006.
Osborne, June & John Mortimer. Urbino: The Story of a Renaissance City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Parks, Tim. Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Profile, 2005.
Shaw, Christine, Dr. Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2006.
Siegmund, Stefanie B. The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
van Veen, Henk Th. Cosimo I De' Medici and His Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Waley, Donald. The Italian City-Republics. 3rd ed. White Plains New York: Longman, 1988.
2. Humanism: the studia humanitatis and civic humanism
Baron, Hans. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966.
Biow, Douglas. Doctors, Ambassadors, and Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Bisaha, Nancy. Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Black, Robert. Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Celenza, Christopher S. The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Frazier, Alison Knowles. Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Garin, Eugenio. Italian Humanism, Philosophy and Civic Life in the Renaissance. Trans. by Peter Munz. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965. Orig. German 1947.
Grafton, Anthony. Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Hill & Wang, 2000.
Grendler, Paul. Schooling in Renaissance Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Kristeller, P. O. Renaissance Thought and Its Sources. Ed. Michael Mooney. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. NB: one of several collections of Kristeller=s essays.
Mazzocco, Angelo. Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston: Brill, 2006.
Nauert, Charles. Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Kelley, Donald R. Renaissance Humanism. Studies in Intellectual and Cultural History. Boston: Twayne, 1991.
Rabil, Albert, ed. Renaissance Humanism: Foundations, Forms, and Legacy. 3 vols. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. NB: the state of the sub-discipline as of 1988.
Trinkaus, Charles. In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Weiss, Roberto. The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969.
Witt, Ronald G. In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism From Lovato to Bruni. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
3. Humanism: philology, philosophy, historiography
Allen, Michael J. B. & Valery Rees, eds., with Martin Davies. Marsilio Ficino: his Theology, his Philosophy, his Legacy. Leiden-Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002.
Fiorani, Francesca. The Marvel of Maps : Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Cochrane, Eric. Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Copenhaver, Brian, and Charles B. Schmitt. Renaissance Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Gill, Meredith Jane. Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo. Cambridge ;; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Grafton, Anthony. What was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Grendler, Paul. The Universities of the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Hankins, James. Plato in the Italian Renaissance. 2 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990
Long, Pamela O. Openness, Secrecy Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Yates, Frances. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition London, 1964; repr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
4. Italian Renaissance society and culture
Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of a Pictorial Style. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972; 2nd ed. 1988.
Brown, Judith C. & Robert C., eds. Davis. Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy. London-New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
Davis, Robert C. and Benjamin C. I. Ravid. The Jews of Early Modern Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Brucker, Gene. Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California P, 1986.
Burke, Peter. The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy. rev. ed. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999; orig. 1986.
Chonjacka, Monica. Working Women of Early Modern Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Cohen, Thomas V. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Cohn, Samuel K., Jr. Death and Property in Siena, 1205-1800: Strategies for the Afterlife. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Crabb, Ann. The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Crum, Roger J. and John T. Paoletti. Renaissance Florence: A Social History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Dameron, George W. Florence and its Church in the Age of Dante. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Davis, Robert C. Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Pre-Industrial City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Edgerton, Samuel Y. The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Ferraro, Joanne M. Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Frick, Carole Collier. Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Gaggio, Dario. In Gold we Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Glixon, Beth Lise and Jonathan Emmanuel Glixon. Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Goldthwaite, Richard. Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600. Baltimore: the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Harness, Kelley Ann. Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Heller, Wendy. Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Herlihy, David and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Tuscans and Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. French orig. 1978.
Hollingsworth, Mary. The Cardinal's Hat: Money, Ambition and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court. Profile, 2005.
Hurlburt, Holly S. The Dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500: Wife and Icon. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
Jacks, Phili & William Caferro. The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
Kent, F.W. Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Killerby, Catherine M. Kovesi. Sumptuary Law in Italy: 1200-1500. Oxford: Oxford University Pesss, 2002.
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane. Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Kuehn, Thomas J. Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Lowe, Kate. Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Luongo, F. Thomas. The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Martines, Lauro. April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Martines, Lauro. Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy. London: Cape, 2006.
Muir, Edward. Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981; pb 1986.
Murphy, Caroline. The Pope's Daughter : The Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
O'Malley, Michelle. The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Parks, Tim. Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Profile, 2005.
Pullan, Brian. Rich and Poor in Renaissance Venice: The Social Institutions of a Catholic State, to 1620. Oxford: Basil Blackwell; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Rice, Eugene F., Jr. Saint Jerome in the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Robin, Diana Maury. Publishing Women: Salons, the Presses, and the Counter-Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Rowland, Ingrid. The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Ruggiero, Guido. The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. New York-London: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Seward, Desmond. The Burning of the Vanities: Savonarola and the Borgia Pope. Sutton, 2006.
Stow, Kenneth R. Theater of Acculturation : The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Stuard, Susan Mosher. Gilding the Market : Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Terpstra, Nicholas. Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance : Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Vol. 123rd ser. 4. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Trexler, Richard C. Public Life in Renaissance Florence. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
Welch, Evelyn S. Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
5. Machiavelli, the crisis, and the later Italian Renaissance
Chastel, André. The Sack of Rome, 1527. Trans. Beth Archer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Cochrane, Eric. The Late Italian Renaissance, 1525-1630. London and New York, 1970.
Dandelet, Thomas James. Spanish Rome, 1500-1700. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Dooley, Brendan. Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Fenlon, Iain. Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Ferraro, Joanne M. Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Findlen, Paula. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994.
Freedberg, David. The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Gilbert, Felix. Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Godman, Peter. The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine between Inquisition and Index. Leiden, Boston and Cologne: Brill, 2000.
Grafton, Anthony. Cardano's Cosmos: the Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Heller, Wendy. Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Hornqvist, Mikael. Machiavelli and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Hulliung, Mark. Citizen Machiavelli. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Lowe, Kate. Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Pocock, J.G.A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Rowland, Ingrid D. The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Ruggiero, Guido. Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and Society in the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Schutte, Anne Jacobson. Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Shea, William R. Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. I: The Renaissance. II: The Age of Reformation. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Stephens, J.N.. The Fall of the Florentine Republic, 1512-1530. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Viroli, Maurizio. Machiavelli. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
6. Erasmus and the northern Renaissance; printing and literacy
Augustijn, Cornelis. Erasmus: His Life, Works and Influence. Trans. J.C. Grayson. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 1991, paper 1995.
Bejczy, Istvan. Erasmus and the Middle Ages: the Historical Consciousness of a Christian Humanist. Leiden: Brill, 2001.
Broomhall, Susan M. Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France. Aldershot-Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2002.
Burke, Peter. Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge Unviersity Press, 2004.
Chartier, Roger. Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Chrisman, Miriam Usher. Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599 . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe. 2 vols. Cambridge and NY: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Abr. ed. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Goodman, Anthony and Mackay, Angus, eds.. The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe. London: White Plains NY: Longman, 1990.
Friedrich, Hugo. Montaigne. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.
Hampton, Timothy. Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Houston, R. A. Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Its Growth, Uses and Impact, 1500-1800. 2nd edition, Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2002.
Jardine, Lisa. Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Marius, Richard. Thomas More. New York: Vintage, 1985.
Mayer, Thomas F. Thomas Starkey and the Commonweal: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
McKitterick, David. Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Nuttall, A. D. Shakespeare the Thinker. New Haven Conn.] ; London: Yale University Press, 2007.
Overfield, James H. Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984.
Schoeck, R J. Erasmus of Europe: The Making of a Humanist 1467-1500. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Schiffman, Zachary. On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in The French Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Shuger, Debora K. Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Todd, Margo. Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
7. Protestant Reformation
Benedict, Philip. Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Bernard, G. W. The King's Reformation : Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Bossy, John. Christianity in the West, 1400-1700. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Bouwsma, W.J. John Calvin: A Sixteenth Century Portrait. New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Brown, Christopher Boyd. Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Chadwick, Owen. The Early Reformation on the Continent. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Cohn, Samuel K. The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Renaissance Europe. London: Arnold, 2002.
Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1991.
Crawford, Patricia. Women and Religion in England, 1500-1750. London: Routledge, 1993.
Daniell David. William Tyndale. New Haven:Yale University Press, 1994.
Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c. 1400-c.1580 . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Gorski, Philip S. The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the Early Modern State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Gregory, Brad. Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Haigh, Christopher. English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Harline, Craig & Eddy Put. Miracles at the Jesus Oak : Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
Housley, Norman. Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400-1536. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Hsia, R. Po-Chia. Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe 1550-1759. London: Routledge, 1990.
Jones, Norman L. The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
King, John N. Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Lake, Peter and Michael Questier. The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Leonard, Amy. Nails in the Wall : Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany. Women in Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
MacCullough, Diarmaid. The Reformation: A History. Harmondsworth England: Penguin, 2004.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of Caliifornia Press, 1992.
McGrath, Alister. Reformation Thought: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Mullett, Michael. Radical Religious Movements in Early Modern Europe. London-Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1980.
Ozment, Steven. Protestants. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Peters, Christine. Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Pettegree, Andrew, Alastair Duke and Gillian Lewis, eds. Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1620. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Ryrie, Alec. The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Scott, Tom. Thomas Müntzer: Theology and Revolution in the German Reformation. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.
Scribner, Bob, Roy Porter & Mikulas Teich, eds. The Reformation in National Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Shagan, Ethan H. Popular Politics and the English Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Shepardson, Nikki. Burning Zeal : The Rhetoric of Martyrdom and the Protestant Community in Reformation France, 1520-1570. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2007.
Strauss, Gerald. Luther's House of Learning . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978
Tracy, James D. Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650. Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
Waite, Gary K. Eradicating the Devil's Minions : Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe, 1525-1600. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Wandel, Lee Palmer. The Eucharist in the Reformation : Incarnation and Liturgy. Cambridge ;; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Witte, John and Robert McCune Kingdon. Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva. Grand Rapids, Mich: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 2005.
8. Catholic Reformation
Bireley, Robert L., S.J. The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Diefendorf, Barbara. Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Diefendorf, Barbara. From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Trans. A. and J. Tedeschi. Penguin 1980.
Godman, Peter. The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine between Inquisition and Index. Leiden, Boston and Cologne: Brill, 2000.
Griffin, Clive. Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Harvey, L.P. Muslims in Spain, 1500-1614. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Hsia, R. Po-Chia. The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Lowe, Kate. Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Melammed, Renee Levine. A Question of Identity: Iberian Conversos in Historical Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Mullett, Michael. The Catholic Reformation. London: Routledge, 1999.
Olin, John C. Catholic Reform from Cardinal Ximenes to the Council of Trent, 1495-1563: An Essay with Illustrative Documents and a Brief Study of St. Ignatius Loyola. New York: Fordham University Press, 1990.
O'Malley, John, W. The First Jesuits. Cambridge, MA-London: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Perry, Mary Elizabeth. The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Pérez, Joseph. History of a Tragedy : The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Translated by Lysa Hochroth. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Peters, Edward. Inquisition. New York: Free Press, 1988.
Russell, Camilla. Giulia Gonzaga and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century Italy. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies ;; v. 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.
Schutte, Anne Jacobson. Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Starr-Le-Beau, Gretchen D. In the Shadow of the Virgin: Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Teter, Magda. Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland : A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
9. Exploration, encounter, and world trade
Axtell, James. Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Bisaha, Nancy. Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Brockey, Liam Matthew. Journey to the East : The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Brotton, Jerry. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2006.
Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Cushner, Nicholas P. Why have You Come here? : The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Davis, Natalie Zemon. Trickster Travels : A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.
Dursteler, Eric. Venetians in Constantinople : Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Earle, T. F. and K. J. P. Lowe. Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. Cambridge, UK ;; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Edson, Evelyn. The World Map, 1300-1492 : The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Gruzinski, Serge. The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies into the Western World, 16th-18th Centuries. Trans. Eileen Corrigan. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993.
Hart, Jonathan. Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan 2003.
Harvey, L.P. Muslims in Spain, 1500-1614. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
MacCormack, Sabine. On the Wings of Time : Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
MacMillan, Ken. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World : The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Mancall, Peter C. Hakluyt's Promise : An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Pagden, Anthony. Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500-c.1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Phillips, William D., Jr. & Carla Rahn Phillips. The Worlds of Christopher Columbus. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Restall, Matthew. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Richards, John F. The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2003.
Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Schmidt, Benjamin. Innocence Abroad: the Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Seed, Patricia. Ceremonies of Possession: Europe's Conquest of the New Word, 1492-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Spence, Jonathan. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. New York: Viking Penguin, 1984.
Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken. A Nation upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Thomas, Hugh. Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan. New York: Random House, 2003.
Tracy, James D, ed. The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Tracy, James D, ed. The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Zupanov, Ines G. Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India, 16th-17th Centuries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.
10. Economy and society
Ariès, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. Trans. Robert Baldick. New York: Random House (Vintage), 1962. French orig. Paris, 1960.
Betteridge, Tom, ed. Sodomy in Early Modern Europe. New York: Manchester University Press. 2002.
Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, I: The Structures of Everyday Life; II: The Wheels of Commerce; III: The Perspective of the World. Trans. Sian Reynolds. Rev. ed. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992.
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