List of Maps | p. XXIV |
List of Boxes | p. XXVII |
Books Related Interest | p. XXX |
Preface | p. XXXI |
Introduction | p. XXXVII |
Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague | |
Population Catastrophes Demographic Decline | |
Plague | |
Economic Depression and Recovery Agricultural Specialization | |
Protectionism | |
Technological Advances | |
The Standard of Living | |
Popular Unrest Rural Revolts | |
Urban Revolts | |
The Seeds of Discontent | |
Challenges of the Governments of Europe Roots of Political Unrest | |
The Nobility and Factional Strife | |
England, France, and the Hundred Years' War | |
The Tides of the Battle | |
The Effectors of the Hundred Years' War | |
The States of Italy | |
The Fall of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire The Fall of Constantinople | |
Tradition and Change in European Culture, 1300-1500 | |
The New Learning The Founding of Humanism | |
Humanism in the Fifteenth Century | |
The Florentine Neoplatonists | |
The Heritage of the New Learning | |
Art and the Artists in the Italian Renaissance Three Friends | |
The High Renaissance | |
Status and Perception | |
The Culture of the NorthChivalry and Decay | |
Contemporary Views of Northern Society | |
Art and Music | |
Scholastic Philosophy, Religious Thought, and Piety The 'Modern Way' | |
Social and Scientific Thought | |
The State of Christendom Styles of Piety | |
Movements of Doctrinal Reform | |
Reformations in Religion | |
Piety and DissentDoctrine and Reform | |
Causes of Discontent | |
Popular Religion | |
Piety and Protest in Literature and Art | |
Christian Humanism | |
The Lutheran ReformationThe Conditions for Change | |
Martin Luther | |
The Break with Rome | |
Lutheran Doctrine and Practice | |
The Spread of Lutheranism | |
Lutheranism Established | |
The Spread of Protestantism Zwingli and the Radicals | |
Persecution of the Radicals | |
John Calvin | |
Calvinism | |
The Anglican Church | |
The Catholic RevivalStrengths and Weaknesses | |
The Council of Trent | |
The Aftermath of Trent | |
Ignatius Loyola | |
Religion and Politics | |
Economic Expansion and a New Politics | |
Expansion at HomePopulation Increase | |
Economic Growth | |
Social Change | |
Expansion OverseasThe Portuguese | |
The Spaniards | |
The First Colonial Empire | |
The Centralization of Political Powers Tudor England | |
Louis XI and Charles VIII | |
The Growth of Government Powers | |
United Spain | |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | |
The Splintered States | |
The New StatecraftNew International Relations | |
Machiavelli and Guicciardini | |
War and Crisis | |
Rivalry and War in the Age of Philip II Elizabeth I of England | |
The Dutch Revolt | |
Civil War in France | |
From Unbounded War to International Crisis The Thirty years' War | |
The Peace of Westphalia | |
The Military Revolution Weapons and Tactics | |
The Organization and Support of Armies | |
The Life of the Soldier | |
Revolution in EnglandPressures for Change | |
Parliament and Law | |
Rising Antagonisms | |
England Under Cromwell | |
Revolts in France and SpainThe France of Henry IV | |
Louis XIII | |
Political and Social Crisis | |
The Fronde | |
Sources of Discontent in Spain | |
Revolt and Secession | |
Political Change in an Age of Crisis The Unites Provinces | |
Sweden | |
Eastern Europe and the Crisis | |
Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution | |
Scientific Advance from Copernicus to Newton Origins of the Scientific Revolution | |
The Breakthroughs | |
The Climax of the Scientific Revolution: Isaac Newton | |
The Effects of the Discoveries The New Epistemology | |
Bacon and Descartes | |
Pascal's Protest Against New Sciences | |
Science Institutionalized | |
The Arts and Literature Unsettling Art | |
Unsettling Writers | |
The Return of Assurance to the Arts | |
Stability and Restraint in the Arts | |
Social Patterns and Popular Culture Popular Trends | |
Social Status | |
Mobility and Crime | |
Changes in the Villages and Cities | |
Belief in Magic and Rituals | |
Forces of Restraint/Conclusion | |
The Emergence of the European State System | |
Absolutism in France The Rule of Louis X | |
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