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Classic articles

This is a list of classic scholarly articles to be used for the first assignment in Europe in the Making.

You may use an article not on this list, but please consult your seminar tutor first.

These articles are drawn from the reading lists for the seminars across all weeks in term 1.

Origins of Reformation

Duggan, Lawrence, 鈥楾he Unresponsiveness of the Late Medieval Church: a Reconsideration鈥�, Sixteenth Century Journal 9 (1978)

Hendrix, H. Scott, 'Loyalty, Piety and Opportunism: German Princes,' Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 25, no. 2 (1994)

Impact of Reformation

Parker, Geoffrey, 鈥楽uccess and Failure During the First Century of the Reformation鈥�, Past and Present, 136 (1992)

Arnold Hunt, 'The Lord's Supper in Early Modern England,' Past and Present 161, no. 1 (1998): 39-83

Popular culture and witchcraft

Sally Parkin, 鈥榃itchcraft, Women鈥檚 Honour and Customary Law in Early Modern Wales鈥�, Social History 31 (2006): 295-318

Behringer, Wolfgang, 鈥榃eather, Hunger and Fear: Origins of the European Witch-hunts鈥�, German History 13 (1995)

Catholic Christianity in global context

Bossy, John, 鈥楾he Counter Reformation and the People of Catholic Europe鈥�, Past and Present, 47 (1970): 51-70

MacCormack, Sabine, 鈥楪ods, Demons, and Idols in the Andes,鈥� Journal of the History of Ideas 67 (2006): 623鈥�47

The Atlantic world

Brenner, Robert, 鈥楾he social basis of English commercial expansion, 1550-1650鈥�, Journal of Economic History 32 (1972), 361-84

Harley, J. B. 'Silences and Secrecy: The Hidden Agenda of Cartography in Early Modern Europe,' Imago Mundi 20, no. 1 (1988): 57-76

The Mediterranean world

Greene, Molly, 'Beyond the Northern Invasion: the Mediterranean in the Seventeenth Century', Past and Present 172 (2002): 42-71

Robert C. Davis, 'Counting European Slaves on the Barbary Cost', Past and Present 172 (2001): 87-124

The Indian Ocean world

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, 鈥楾aking Stock of the Franks: South Asian Views of Europeans and Europe, 1500-1800鈥�, Indian Economic and Social History Review 42, no. 1 (2005): 69-100

Andrade, Tonio, 鈥楤eyond Guns, Germs, and Steel: European Expansion and Maritime Asia, 1400-1750鈥�, Journal of Early Modern History 14, no. 1 (2010): 165-186

The global renaissance

Brading, David A., 'The Incas and the Renaissance: The Royal Commentaries of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega,' Journal of Latin American Studies 18 (1985): 1鈥�23

Standaert, Nicolas, 鈥楾he Transmission of Renaissance Culture in Seventeenth-Century China鈥�, Renaissance Studies 17, no. 3 (2003): 367鈥�91

journal cover
An early (1976) cover of Past & Present, a major English-language history journal founded in 1952.

This is one of many scholarly journals to have published 'classic' articles in all areas of early modern history.

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