Europe in the Sixteenth Century

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Routledge, Jun 6, 2014 - History - 558 pages
This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Series, `A General History of Europe'.

It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its different aspects through the various political structures of the age - empires, monarchies, city-republics - and how they functioned and related to one another. A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the growing importance of town-life in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of political change.


 

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LIST OF GENEALOGICAL CHARTS
THE SOURCES Increase of sourcematerial
The radicals the CatholicReformation contemporary histories 3 ECONOMIC LIFE Rural society inEuropein1500
SOCIAL LIFE Parish registers and demography the family
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