Religious Conflict and Accommodation in the Early Modern World. Edited by Marguerite Ragnow and William D. Phillips Jr. Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History 3. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xi + 257 pp. $55.00 cloth.

2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-715
Author(s):  
Scott M. Marr
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Early Modern History

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 475-480
Author(s):  
Simon Ditchfield
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Modern History ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Anniversary Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
The University

Abstract After a discussion of the twentieth anniversary issue, the author of the book which is the subject of our “round table” review of this twenty-fifth anniversary issue: Merry Wiesner Hanks’ What is Early Modern History (2021) is introduced. This is followed by a brief account of the rationale behind the foundation of the JEMH in the 1990s and how, from the very first issue, the journal has tried to decolonize our understanding of the period 1300–1800, as exemplified by Antony Black’s warning that: “we should stop selling off second-hand concepts to unsuspecting non-European cultures.” Passing comment is made on the chronological (as well as geographical) breadth of the coverage of the JEMH which accords well with the recent merger of the Centers for Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota (to form the Center for Premodern Studies). At a time when the advocacy of the study of pre-modern history is vital as never before, this situates the JEMH very well. The introduction closes with a series of acknowledgements and thanks not only directed to the editorial team both in Minnesota and Leiden for the support they have given me, as editor-in-chief, since July 2010, but also to the numerous authors and readers of manuscripts who have made the journal what it is today.

Modernization on the Northern Fringe of Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesa-Pekka Herva ◽  
Magdalena Naum ◽  
Jonas M. Nordin ◽  
Carl-Gösta Ojala
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Northern Fringe

The Atlantic world looms large in discussions of how the modern world emerged, and what modernization was about; but there have been calls to engage with these topics from the perspective of ‘margins’. Covering large areas of Fennoscandia, the seventeenth-century Kingdom of Sweden represented a northern end of urban Europe, but also encompassed the mythical Lapland, homeland of the Sámi and of natural and supernatural wonders—a contested borderland between the European ‘western’ and Russian ‘eastern’ worlds. This northern fringe of early modern Europe saw dynamic arenas of interaction where new cultural forms were generated. These localized transformations and the transmutations of modernity are the subjects of this chapter. Studying early modern processes of modernization from the perspective of the northern peripheries can provide new insights and challenges, not only into the understanding of the early modern history of the Swedish kingdom, but into the general perception of these processes.

What is Early Modern History?: An Origin Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 560-572
Author(s):  
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Origin Story

Abstract What Is Early Modern History?, a volume in the Polity Press “What Is History?” series, is an origin story of the ways historians and those in other fields have seen – and contested – the roots of the modern world and have seen – and contested – whether the period between 1450 and 1800 forms some sort of coherent whole. This essay explains the book’s conceptualization and organization into various subfields, including economic, social, intellectual, cultural, gender, Atlantic world, and environmental history, and responds to the other essays in this forum. The essay and the book discuss the marks of an emerging modernity that have been advanced in different subfields, and ways these have been questioned, nuanced, and rethought. No matter what aspect of life historians investigate, they are likely to see the roots of modernity there, or of multiple modernities, varied and contingent on culture and historical circumstances.

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