HIST 202: Early Modern Europe

This is just a short selection of primary and secondary sources pertaining to early modern European history.  Use library resources to find more.
 

PRIMARY SOURCES:

Atherton, Margaret. Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 1994

Ber, and Mark Wischnitzer. The memoirs of Ber of Bolechow (1723-1805). London, New York etc.: H. Milford Oxford university press, 1922.

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987.

The ritual murder libel and the Jew. London,: The Woburn press, 1935.

Ferrazzi, Cecilia. Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Fonte, Moderata. The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Golden, Richard M., and Thomas Kuehn. Western Societies: Primary Sources in Social History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993

Hanover, Nathan Nata. Abyss of despair (Yeven metzulah) The famous 17th century chronicle depicting Jewish life in Russia and Poland during the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-49. New Brunswick (USA), London: Transaction Books, 1983.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994

Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983

Karant-Nunn, Susan C., and Merry E. Wiesner. Luther on Women : a Sourcebook. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Kors, Alan Charles, and Edward Peters. Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700 : a documentary history. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

———. Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700; a documentary history. Philadelphia,: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972

Locke, John.  The Political Writings of John Locke. New York: Penguin-Mentor, 1993.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. Selected Political Writings. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.

Modena, Leone, and Allen Howard Podet. A translation of the Magen wa-hereb by Leon Modena, 1571-1648. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 2001.

____________. An Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi.  Princeton, NJ, 1998.

More, Thomas. Utopia. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999.

Reuchlin, Johannes, Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy and Burn All Jewish books : A Classic Treatise against Anti-Semitism, Studies in Judaism and Christianity. New York: Paulist Press, 2000.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques. The Basic Political Writings. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987.

Scott, Tom, and Robert W. Scribner. The German peasants' war : a history in documents. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1991.

Stow, Kenneth R. Catholic thought and papal Jewry policy, 1555-1593. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977.

———. The Jews in Rome, Studia post-biblica, v. 48. Leiden ; New York: E.J. Brill, 1995.

Usque, Samuel. Consolation for the tribulations of Israel (Consolaçam ás tribulaçoens de Israel). [1st ] ed, Judaica: texts & translations, 2d ser., no. 1. Philadelphia,: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1965.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Vindications. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1997.

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. The Lisbon massacre of 1506 and the royal image in the Shebet Yehudah. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1976.

SECONDARY SOURCES:

Bennett, Judith M., and Amy M. Froide. Singlewomen in the European past, 1250-1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Bireley, Robert. The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic statecraft in early modern Europe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

———. The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

———. The refashioning of Catholicism, 1450-1700: A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999.

———. Religion and Politics in the Age of the Counterreformation : Emperor Ferdinand II, William Lamormaini, S.J., and the Formation of Imperial Policy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Bodian, Miriam. Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Burnett, Stephen G. "Distorted Mirrors:  Antonius Margaritha, Johann Buxtorff and Christian Enthographies of the Jews." Sixteenth Century Journal 25, no. 2 (1994): 275-287.

———. From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies : Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) and Hebrew Learning in the Seventeenth Century, Studies in the history of Christian thought, v. 68. Leiden ; New York: Brill, 1996.

Carlebach, Elisheva. Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Early Modern German Lands, 1500-1750. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

———. The pursuit of heresy : Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Chatellier, Louis. The Religion of the Poor: Rural Missions in Europe and the Formation of Modern Catholicism, c.1500-c.1800. Cambridge, U.K.; New York; Paris: Cambridge University Press; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1997.

Cohen, Mark R. "Leone da Modena's Riti: A Seventeenth-Century Plea for Social Toleration of Jews." In Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, edited by David Ruderman, 429-473. New York: NYU Press, 1992.

Cowan, Alexander. Urban Europe, 1500-1700. London ; New York: Arnold, 1998.

Davis, Natalie Zemon. Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1987.

———. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1975.

Delumeau, Jean. Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire: a New View of the Counter-Reformation. London, Philadelphia: Burns & Oates; Westminster Press, 1977.

DeMolen, Richard L., and John C. Olin. Religious orders of the Catholic Reformation : in honor of John C. Olin on his seventy-fifth birthday. New York: Fordham University Press, 1994.

Evennett, H. O. The Cardinal of Lorraine and the Council of Trent : a study in the Counter-Reformation. Cambridge Eng.: The University Press, 1930.

Evennett, H. O., and John Bossy. The spirit of the Counter-Reformation: the Birkbeck lectures in ecclesiastical history given in the University of Cambridge in May 1951, by the late H. Outram Evennett. Cambridge, London,: Cambridge U.P., 1968.

Fradenburg, Louise Olga, and Carla Freccero. Premodern Sexualities. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Fram, Edward. Ideals Face Reality: Jewish Law and Life in Poland 1550-1655. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1997.

Geremek, Bronislaw. Poverty : a history. Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994

Gierowski, Jozef Andrzej. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the XVIIIth Century : From Anarchy to Well-Organised State, Rozprawy Wydzialu Historyczno-Filozoficznego ; t. 82. Krakow: Nakladem Polskiej Akademii Umiejetnosci, 1996.

Grafton, Anthony and Ann Blair. The Transmission of culture in early modern Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Greene, Molly. A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Grell, Ole Peter, and Robert W. Scribner. Tolerance and intolerance in the European reformation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Harbison, E. Harris, Theodore K. Rabb, and Jerrold E. Seigel. Action and conviction in early modern Europe; essays in memory of E. H. Harbison. Princeton, N.J.,: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Hexter, J. H., Barbara C. Malament, and William James Bouwsma. After the Reformation : essays in honor of J. H. Hexter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980.

Hsia, R. Po-chia. The German People and the Reformation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

———. The myth of ritual murder : Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

———. Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750. London ; New York: Routledge, 1989.

———. Society and Religion in Mèunster, 1535-1618, Yale historical publications. Miscellany ; 131. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

———. Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial. New Haven: Published by Yale University Press in cooperation with Yeshiva University Library, 1992.

———. The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770, New approaches to European history ; 12. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Hsia, R. Po-chia, and Hartmut Lehmann. In and out of the ghetto : Jewish-gentile relations in late medieval and early modern Germany, Publications of the German Historical Institute. Washington, D.C. Cambridge ; New York: German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Hsia, R. Po-chia, and Henk F. K. van Nierop. Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Hsia, R. Po-chia, and Robert W. Scribner. Problems in the Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Europe, Wolfenbèutteler Forschungen ; Bd. 78. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997.

Hundert, Gershon David. Jews in Early Modern Poland. Edited by Antony Polonsky. Vol. 10, Polin. London ; Portland, Or.: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1997.

Israel, Jonathan Irvine. European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750. 3rd ed, The Littman library of Jewish civilization. London ; Portland, Or.: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998.

Kamen, Henry Arthur Francis. The Spanish Inquisition : a historical revision. New Haven, Conn. ; London: Yale University Press, 1998.

Katchen, Aaron L. Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis: Seventeenth Century Apologetics and the Study of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Harvard Judaic texts and studies ; 3. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1984.

Katz, Jacob. Exclusiveness and tolerance : studies in Jewish-Gentile relations in medieval and modern times. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Katz, Jacob, and Bernard Dov Cooperman. Tradition and crisis : Jewish society at the end of the Middle Ages. New York: New York University Press, 1992.

Kermode, Jennifer, and Garthine Walker. Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. Chapel Hill: UCL Press, 1994.

Kessel, Peter van, and Elisja Schulte van Kessel. Rome, Amsterdam: Two Growing Cities in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1997.

Kuehn, Thomas. Law, Family & Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Kuehn, Thomas. Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence, Studies in medieval and early modern civilization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Leber, Barbara. A Jewish convert in Counter-Reformation Rome : Giovanni Paolo Eustachio, 2000.

Lewis, Bernard. Cultures in conflict : Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the age of discovery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Malino, Frances, and David Jan Sorkin. From East and West : Jews in a changing Europe, 1750-1870. Cambridge, Mass., USA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Meyerson, Mark D., and Edward D. English. Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Interaction and Cultural Change. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.

Muir, Edward, and Guido Ruggiero. History from crime, Selections from Quaderni storici. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

———. Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe, Selections from Quaderni storici. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Muir, Edward, Guido Ruggiero, Margaret A. Gallucci, Mary M. Gallucci, and Carole C. Gallucci. Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Okin, Susan Moller. Women in Western political thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979.

O'Malley, John W. Catholicism in early modern history : a guide to research, Reformation guides to research ; v. 2. St. Louis, Mo.: Center for Reformation Research, 1988.

———. The First Jesuits. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

———. Giles of Viterbo on church and reform. A study in Renaissance thought, Studies in medieval and Reformation thought, v. 5. Leiden,: E. J. Brill, 1968.

———. The Jesuits : cultures, sciences, and the arts, 1540-1773. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

———. Praise and blame in Renaissance Rome : rhetoric, doctrine, and reform in the sacred orators of the papal court, c. 1450-1521, Duke monographs in medieval and Renaissance studies ; no. 3. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1979.

———. Religious culture in the sixteenth century : preaching, rhetoric, spirituality, and reform. Aldershot, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, 1993.

———. Rome and the Renaissance : studies in culture and religion. London: Variorum Reprints, 1981.

———. Trent and all that : renaming Catholicism in the early modern era. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

O'Malley, John W., Kathleen M. Comerford, and Hilmar M. Pabel. Early modern Catholicism : essays in honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Ozment, Steven E. The age of reform (1250-1550) : an intellectual and religious history of late medieval and Reformation Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.

———. The burgermeister's daughter : scandal in a sixteenth-century German town. New York: HarperPerennial, 1997.

———. Flesh and spirit : private life in early modern Germany. New York: Viking, 1999.

———. Reformation Europe : a guide to research. St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1982.

———. The Reformation in the cities : the appeal of Protestantism to sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.

———. Religion and culture in the Renaissance and Reformation, Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 11. Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1989.

———. Three Behaim boys : growing up in early modern Germany : a chronicle of their lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

———. When fathers ruled : family life in Reformation Europe, Studies in cultural history. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Paumgartner, Magdalena Balthasar, Balthasar Paumgartner, and Steven E. Ozment. Magdalena and Balthasar : an intimate portrait of life in 16th-century Europe. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Rabb, Theodore K. The struggle for stability in early modern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Rabb, Theodore K., and Sherrin Marshall. Origins of the modern West : essays and sources in Renaissance & early modern European history. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.

Rapley, Elizabeth. The devotes : women and church in seventeenth-century France, McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ; 4. Montreal ; Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.

Roper, Lyndal. The holy household : women and morals in Reformation Augsburg, Oxford studies in social history. Oxford New York: Clarendon Press;Oxford University Press, 1989.

________. Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe. London; New York: Routledge, 1994.
 
 

Rosenthal, Frank. "The Study of the Hebrew Bible in Sixteenth Century Italy." Studies in the Renaissance 1 (1954): 81-91.
Rotberg, Robert I., Theodore K. Rabb, Roger Schofield, E. A. Wrigley, and Michael Anderson. Population and economy : population and history from the traditional to the modern world, Studies in interdisciplinary history. Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Ruggiero, Guido. Binding passions : tales of magic, marriage, and power at the end of the Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

———. The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Segal, Lester A. Historical consciousness and religious tradition in Azariah de' Rossi's Me` or `einayim. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989.

Stow, Kenneth R. Catholic thought and papal Jewry policy, 1555-1593. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977.

———. "Church, Conversion and Tradition:  The Problem of Jews Conversion in Sixteenth Century Italy." Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica: rivista del Dipartimento di studii storici dal Medioevo all'et'a conemportanea dell'Universit'a "La Sapienza" di Roma 2 (1996): 25-34.

———. The Jews: a Mediterranean Culture, Progetto "Cultura mediterranea" ; 1. Fasano: Schena, 1994.

———. "The Papacy and the Jews:  Catholic Reformation and Beyond." Jewish History 6, no. 1-2 (1992): 257-279.

———. Theater of Acculturation: the Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.

Weissler, Chava. Voices of the Matriarchs:  Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. From Spanish court to Italian ghetto; Isaac Cardoso; a study in seventeenth-century marranism and Jewish apologetics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981.

———. The Lisbon massacre of 1506 and the royal image in the Shebet Yehudah. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1976.