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	Early modern Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The early modern period is characterized by the rise to importance of science and increasingly rapid technological progress, secularized civic politics and the nation state.
		The beginning of the early modern period is not clear-cut, but is generally accepted to be in the late 15th century or early 16th century.
		The expression "early modern" is sometimes, and incorrectly, used as a substitute for the term Renaissance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_Modern_Europe (642 words)

	Faculty of History: Academic Staff: Subject Groups: Early Modern History
		The Early Modern Subject Group welcomes you to be fascinated by facts and artefacts relating to this extraordinary period in history, and to explore the lives of men and women in Britain and across Europe and the New World during these centuries.
		Early Modern History Historians in the Faculty of History
		His research interests are principally in the history of knowledge and human understanding, in education and political thought, and in the history of relations between the natural and the moral and political sciences of the early modern period.
	www.hist.cam.ac.uk /academic_staff/subject_groups/early_modern (2451 words)

	Graduate Studies in Early Modern History, UC-R
		The History Department at the University of California, Riverside, is currently developing a graduate field in the history of the early modern world.
		From its early concentration on economic factors, then, early modern world history has expanded to include political, social and cultural dimensions; in fact, the discipline is still in the process of definition.
		World history as a discipline for undergraduates is expanding rapidly, as shown by the recent proliferation of genuinely new world history textbooks.
	faculty.ucr.edu /~rhead/earlymod/earlydsc.html (1635 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Overview: Early Modern
		Recently, historians in their periodization of Jewish history have come to refer to this gradual process as the "early modern" period.
		Most scholars agree that modern times are signaled by the appearance of certain new characteristics of individual and communal Jewish life.
		The causes and characteristics of modernity are complex.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /history_community/Modern/EarlyModern.htm (582 words)

	Masters Degrees - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The MA in History is designed for students who wish to study at an advanced level but who do not chose to focus their study in a defined aspect of history as it offers a unique degree of choice.
		Particular attention is paid to the history of sexuality and gender in the early modern period; the nature of witchcraft belief and magic; the force of the law and the value and limitations of the legal record; the changing significance of literacy, print and oral culture; rebellion, riot and popular politics.
		The MA in History of Medicine is structured around specialist units covering the history of medicine from medieval times to the present day with a focus on the medieval, early modern or modern periods.
	www.uea.ac.uk /his/teaching/postgrad/masters (1674 words)

	MA in Early Modern History : History : University of Sussex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The MA in Early Modern History draws on the range of expertise in early modern history at Sussex to offer an unusual breadth of options from English, British and European History, among which students can choose freely.
		This course studies the hermeneutic and methodological traditions that have dominated the study of history in Europe in the last three centuries, and addresses the major problems of scholarly interpretation and research which are at the centre of recent debates.
		This course is a thematic introduction to the literature of politics and religion and their interrelationships in early modern Europe.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /history/1-2-4-2.html (1321 words)

	Early Modern History (1500-1750) - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In later British and European history there are the two standard 'early modern history' series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History(for Britain) and New Studies in European History.
		The difficult task of balancing breadth with depth is accomplished skilfully, and the text is particularly strong on gender and social relations.
		Exposing the 'hidden' history of marital violence between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/browse/default.asp?subjectID=1010708 (449 words)

	Early Modern History - History and Religious Studies Penn State
		The Early Modern group fosters scholarly research and debate around issues of cultural exchange, colonialism, and national identity in a global context.
		An integral part of a University-wide Early Modern Initiative, historians team with faculty working in English, Geography, Art History, Colonial Latin America, and other fields to create vibrant offerings.
		The early modern group is also very active in sponsoring conferences, speaker series, and cultural events.
	php.scripts.psu.edu /dept/history/aboutUs/earlyModernHistory.php (199 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Culinary History Timeline - A history of food from Ancient Egypt to the present.
		Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern West - Primary and overview sources for students of early modern history from Fordham University.
		Early Modern Women Database -- Database of materials on women in the Early Modern Period.
	www.ripon.edu /Library/resources/history.html (1516 words)

	Early Modern - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition the early modern period is very well supported in the library and through other resources, such as Early English Books Online, which offers access to over 125,000 printed titles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
		We are the third largest 5* history deparment in the country, which means that we can offer students a wide variety of choice, not only in the early modern period but also outside it.
		The third is a JISC funded MA in the History of early Modern Political Discourse 1500-1800, taught jointly with Hull.
	www.uea.ac.uk /his/research/earlymodern.shtml (612 words)

	Early Modern World History at UC-Riverside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The goal of the program is to prepare students both for teaching in world history, and also for research that includes large-scale or comparative perspectives while concentrating on particular regions during the early modern period.
		From 1996 to 1998, the study of the Early Modern World at UC-Riverside was part of an intercampus graduate enrichment program on the conceptualization and study of modernity as a historical phenomenon.
		In May of 1999, a proposal was launched for a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group in World History, which has been approved by the UC Office of the President.
	faculty.ucr.edu /~rhead/earlymod/EMWhome.html (340 words)

	Carnivalesque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Carnivalesque was originally launched in September 2004 as a bi-monthly roundup of high-quality blog writing related to the ‘early modern’ period in history (broadly defined as c.1450-1850).
		(The boundary between “medieval” and “early modern” tends to be quite fuzzy, but should probably be taken as somewhere around the mid-fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries CE.
		Sharon Howard is primarily responsible for the early modern side of the carnival.
	carnivalesque.blogsome.com (833 words)

	Amazon.com: Reading History in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History): Books: D. R. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This book focuses on the "after-life" of historical texts in the period between the arrival of printing in England and the early eighteenth century.
		Whereas previous studies of historical writing during this period have focused on their authors and on their style or methodology, this work examines the social forces that controlled what was written, and the impact of readers and publishers on authors.
		The intent is to situate the study of history books within the current literature on the history of the book and the history of print culture.
	www.amazon.com /Reading-History-England-Cambridge-Studies/dp/0521780462 (1084 words)

	Best of History Web Sites: Early Modern Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hosted by the University of Toronto, the CRRC is a research center with a library devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700.
		They began with the premise that the texts of the period could not be taught successfully without a working knowledge of the religions beliefs and controversies of the period and an array of strategies for bringing that material to life in the classroom.
		The searchable site aims to provide a broad picture of the role of biblical interpretation in early modern Europe and shows how stories from the Bible were used by early scientists and Reformation leaders as a story of the growth and decline of knowledge.
	www.besthistorysites.net /EarlyModernEurope.shtml (7689 words)

	Early Modern European History
		The goal of the Department’s program in Early Modern European History is to prepare students to teach in universities, colleges, and other educational institutions as well as careers in research, writing and editing historical works.
		At present the Early Modern Program’s particular strengths are in the social, cultural, and religious history of Italy and the Low Countries.
		Graduate students are welcome to join the Early Modern Dissertation Reading Group, an inter-university and interdisciplinary seminar that meets monthly at the Washington University Hilltop campus.
	www.slu.edu /departments/history/ren.htm (614 words)

	Early Modern
		A digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
		Early English Prose Fiction: Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700.
		The 350-plus poems range from satire to invective to anti-libels, and throw new light on literary and political culture in Enlgand in the decades from the accession of King James I to the outbreak of the English Civil War.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/abhist/brithist/earlymodern.html (1867 words)

	Handout Early Modern 2004
		In a paper of approximately two pages (600 words), compare the overall theme that the two writers have ascribed to the Early Modern Period in Jewish history and outline what kind of sources they will have to "privilege" or emphasize, and what kind they will have to dowplay or ignore.
		You might ask whether the author focused on continuity or change in the period, what the writer's attitude was towards tradition, or whether the writer thought the period was one of progress or regression.
		Note that material on the early modern period is often to be found in lists devoted to the modern period.
	www.history.umd.edu /Faculty/BCooperman/EarlyMod/HandoutEarMod2004.html (1907 words)

	MA Medieval History & Early Modern History
		The MA is ideally suited to those with an interest in (either, or both) the history of medieval and early modern Britain and continental Europe.
		Bristol has long been a centre of excellence for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and in addition to the Department's own extensive resources MA students have the further benefit of the Centre for Medieval Studies contained within the Faculty of Arts.
		Bristol itself is a medieval city with the marks of early modern social, economic and cultural development still visible in many of its buildings, its street-plan and its skyline.
	www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/History/Postgrads/mamedem.htm (480 words)

	Amazon.com: Oman & Muscat: An early modern history: Books: Patricia Risso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the early modern period Oman held a key position in the trade routes whereby the Muslim world dominated indigenous trade in the Indian Ocean.
		In the second half of the eighteenth century, Oman broke free from foreign political control and became the dominant economic and naval force in the western Indian Ocean and the Gulf.
		This study presents a detailed comprehensive history of this important period, and includes tribal politics, the role of religion and Oman's relations with neighboring areas such as Peris and East Africa.
	www.amazon.com /Oman-Muscat-early-modern-history/dp/0709942044 (482 words)

	Early Modern Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In lecture I have described the early modern period as witnessing radical change and explosive creativity in many areas of Jewish religious thought and practice.
		You should also address the question of whether the developments of the early modern period are linked to what followed in the eighteenth century.
		Discuss the impact of printing both on Jewish scholarship and on scholarship about the Jews in the early modern period.
	www.history.umd.edu /Faculty/BCooperman/EarlyMod/Final2001.html (420 words)

	Early Modern Resources
		Early Modern Resources is a gateway site for all those interested in finding electronic resources relating to the early modern period in history.
		My definition of 'early modern' covers the period roughly from 1500-1800.
		Readers looking for scholarly works for research purposes may want to check out Early Modern E-Prints, my new directory of open-access academic papers and publications on topics related to early modern history (or look out for items categorised as 'eprints' in any of the theme pages).
	www.earlymodernweb.org.uk /emr (762 words)

	The Early Modern Age - History - Italy - Europe
		The Early Modern Age - History - Italy - Europe
		During the 16th century the various states on the Italian Peninsula fell prey to armies from the more centralized countries of the north.
		The Utrecht treaties also transferred Spain’s holdings in Italy to the Austrians, who exercised dominion in the peninsula throughout most of the second half of the 18th century.
	www.countriesquest.com /europe/italy/history/the_early_modern_age.htm (374 words)

	Sociability and political society: topics in early modern intellectual history
		Such and related questions exercised the minds of some important theorists who are generally considered to have contributed to the rise of a "science" of society and politics between 1500 and 1800.
		The course will introduce students to the topics and methods of early modern intellectual history through examining these thinkers' attitudes to key concepts in social, moral and political thought (rights and obligations, vice and virtue, liberty and slavery, justice, authority etc.) in the context of their contemporary social and intellectual environment.
		Students are encouraged to introduce comparative viewpoints from their own national intellectual histories.
	www.ceu.hu /crc/Syllabi/97-98/History/KONTLER.htm (807 words)

	Hist 424W Early Modern English History
		Purpose: The purpose of this course is to explore the history of England from 1485 to 1714 (Tudor-Stuart dynasties).
		Students should come away from the class with a better understanding of the social, political, and intellectual history of England and some grasp of the most essential historiographical issues of the field.
		Without a feeling of safety and acceptance, no one will want to participate, and the class will be a disappointing bore.
	www.samford.edu /schools/artsci/history/faculty/gsfrost/Hist424WF03.htm (1708 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Main Page
		The great diversity of available sources for use in modern history classes requires that selections be made with great care - since virtually unlimited material is available.
		To present a diversity of source material in modern European, American, and Latin American history, as well as a significant amount of materal pertinent to world cultures and global studies.
		Although the history of social and cultural elite groups remains important to historians, the lives of non-elite women, people of color, lesbians and gays are also well represented here.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook.html (951 words)

	Internet Women's History Sourcebook
		This approach had the merit of addressing the life histories of the mass of women, but, since it has proved to be possible to find some degree of oppression everywhere, it tended to make women merely subjects of forces that they could not control.
		The history of the Roman Empire 976-1078 by one of the liveliest writers of the middle ages.
		In addition to the political history of Byzantium, which has always been available, the data is now available to address comparative issues in many areas of social and cultural history - religious practice/belief, roles of men and women, variant sexual minorities, ethnic groupings, family history, the cultural history of disease, and so forth.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/women/womensbook.html (6499 words)

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