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Europe in a Wider World, 1350-1650

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ISBN-10: 0195154487

ISBN-13: 9780195154481

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robin W. Winks, Lee Palmer Wandel

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Between roughly 1350 and 1650, Europe underwent seismic changes in economics, politics, culture, and religion. Feudal monarchies were reconceived as abstract states. The new technology of the printing press transformed how information was disseminated, bringing texts to different social groups. Painters perfected the artifice of perspective for an increasingly commercial patronage, even as they themselves cultivated the value of their own "genius" through increasingly distinctive styles and visions. Reformers called into question 1500 years of tradition, splitting the One True Church into multiple churches. In the midst of all these changes, Europeans reached farther and farther out into a…    
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List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

The Late Middle Ages in Eastern Europe
The Crusades
The Fall of Byzantium, 1081-1453
The Ottoman Empire, 1453-1699
Russia from the Thirteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Centuries
Summary
The Rise of the Nation
A World Turned Upside Down
The Emerging National Monarchies
Particularism in Germany and Italy
Summary
The Renaissance
A Money Economy
Printing, Thought, and Literature
Science and Religion
The Fine Arts
The Art of Daily Living
Summary
Exploration and Expansion
Exploration and Expansion
East by Sea to the Indies
West by Sea to the Indies
The North Atlantic Powers
Russia
The Impact of Expansion
Summary
The Age of Reformation
Protestant Founders: Martin Luther, 1483-1546
Protestant Founders: Zwingli, Calvin, and Others
Protestant Beliefs and Practices
The Catholic Reformation
Protestantism and the Idea of Progress
Summary
The Great Powers in Conflict
A Long Duree
A Complexity of Wars
The Catholic Monarchies: Spain and France
France: Toward Absolutism, 1547-1588
The Protestant States: Tudor England and the Dutch Republic
The Holy Roman Empire and the Thirty Years' War
Science and Religion
Summary