Illustrated religious texts in the north of Europe, 1500–1800. Edited by Feike Dietz, Adam Morton, Lien Roggen, Els Stronks and Mark Van Vaeck. Pp. xviii + 282 incl. 71 figs. Farnham–Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2014. £70. 978 1 4094 6751 9 - Books in the Catholic world during the early modern period. Edited by Natalia Maillard Álvarez. (Library of the Written Word, 33. The Handpress World, 25.) Pp. xiii + 240. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2014. €109. 978 90 04 26289 8; 1874 4834

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-195
Author(s):  
Anne Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Written Word

scholarly journals Alternative Pasts and Colonial Engagements in the North: The Materiality and Meanings of the Pajala ‘Runestone’ (Vinsavaara Stone), Northern Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-628
Author(s):  
Vesa-Pekka Herva ◽  
Janne Ikäheimo ◽  
Matti Enbuske ◽  
Jari Okkonen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
General Level ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cosmological Context ◽  
Ancient Times

The unknown and exotic North fascinated European minds in the early modern period. A land of natural and supernatural wonders, and of the indigenous Sámi people, the northern margins of Europe stirred up imagination and a plethora of cultural fantasies, which also affected early antiquarian research and the period understanding of the past. This article employs an alleged runestone discovered in northernmost Sweden in the seventeenth century to explore how ancient times and northern margins of the continent were understood in early modern Europe. We examine how the peculiar monument of the Vinsavaara stone was perceived and signified in relation to its materiality, landscape setting, and the cultural-cosmological context of the Renaissance–Baroque world. On a more general level, we use the Vinsavaara stone to assess the nature and character of early modern antiquarianism in relation to the period's nationalism, colonialism and classicism.

Merchant Organization and Maritime Trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815

1998 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
North American ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The North Atlantic

This journal presents the challenges faced by maritime merchants operating in the North Atlantic in the early modern period, and examines the opportunities, aspirations, and methods utilised in the pursuit of profitable trade. The journal collects nine essays and a reflective conclusion, which cumulatively explore the major themes of trade within empires; growth of trade; new initiatives within trade empires; government initiatives in relation to maritime mercantile trade; merchant migration; and changes in international trade. The journal attempts to provide scholarly insight and perspectives into early modern economic life, through the maritime mercantile activities of various European and North American nations.

scholarly journals The Scottish Reformations and the Origin of Religious and Civil Liberty in Britain and Ireland: Presbyterian Interpretations, c.1800-60

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Civil Liberty ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Period

This article examines Presbyterian interpretations in Scotland and Ireland of the Scottish Reformations of 1560 and 1638–43. It begins with a discussion of the work of two important Presbyterian historians of the early nineteenth century, the Scotsman, Thomas McCrie, and the Irishman, James Seaton Reid. In their various publications, both laid the template for the nineteenth-century Presbyterian understanding of the Scottish Reformations by emphasizing the historical links between the Scottish and Irish churches in the early-modern period and their common theology and commitment to civil and religious liberty against the ecclesiastical and political tyranny of the Stuarts. The article also examines the commemorations of the National Covenant in 1838, the Solemn League and Covenant in 1843, and the Scottish Reformation in 1860. By doing so, it uncovers important religious and ideological linkages across the North Channel, including Presbyterian evangelicalism, missionary activity, church–state relationships, religious reform and revival, and anti-Catholicism.

The Market for Seamen in the Age of Sail

1994 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Free Access ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The North Atlantic

This volume collects eight essays that all attempt to answer two key concerns: did markets for seafarers exist in the age of sail; and, if so, were these markets efficient? The question was initially approach by Charles Kindleberger, who claims a market is efficient if it permits free access for employer and employee, is supply and demand match balance so that wages increase, and that labour must command the same price across the market. The first four focus on the broadly defined early-modern period, and all agree on the existence of the markets but are divided over whether or not they are efficient. The second section asks the same questions of the nineteenth century, and receives similar answers. All of the essays take issue with the definition and application of the term ‘efficiency’ when approaching their conclusions. Each author is considered an expert within their field, and all base their research on the North Atlantic.

Property, power and participation in local administration in the Dutch delta in the early modern period

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-86
Author(s):  
PAUL BRUSSE
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Dutch Delta ◽  
Sea Area

AbstractAccording to the literature inspired by the ideas of Robert Brenner, leaseholders, small farmers and craftsmen did not participate in the local administration of those districts in the Dutch Republic where the majority of land was owned by large landowners. However, in this article we show that, at least in the Dutch river clay area, where water management was an essential part of the population's struggle to survive the annual floods, the battle against the elements induced people, regardless of their property relations and social distinctions, to share power in order to overcome the challenges they all faced. The study also contributes to the growing literature about the effects of water management on political culture in the North Sea area.

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