From Long-Distance Trade to the Global Lives of Things: Writing the History of Early Modern Trade and Material Culture

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 526-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Gerritsen
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Parts

Until quite recently, the field of early modern history largely focused on Europe. The overarching narrative of the early modern world began with the European “discoveries,” proceeded to European expansion overseas, and ended with an exploration of the factors that led to the “triumph of Europe.” When the Journal of Early Modern History was established in 1997, the centrality of Europe in the emergence of early modern forms of capitalism continued to be a widely held assumption. Much has changed in the last twenty years, including the recognition of the significance of consumption in different parts of the early modern world, the spatial turn, the emergence of global history, and the shift from the study of trade to the commodities themselves.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Renaissance

This chapter explores the material culture of everyday life in late-Renaissance Paris by setting L’Estoile’s diaries and after-death inventory against a sample of the inventories of thirty-nine of his colleagues. L’Estoile and his family lived embedded in the society of royal office-holders and negotiated their place in its hierarchy with mixed success. His home was cramped and his wardrobe rather shabby. The paintings he displayed in the reception rooms reveal his iconoclastic attitude to the visual, contrasting with the overwhelming number of Catholic devotional pictures displayed by his colleagues. Yet the collection he stored in his study and cabinet made him stand out in his milieu as a distinguished curieux. It deserves a place in the early modern history of collecting, as his example reveals that the civil wars might be a stimulus as much as a disruption to collecting in sixteenth-century France.

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.

A Source Publication for the History of European Expansion

Itinerario ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
Full Support ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of

Prof. Eberhard Schmitt (University of Bamberg, Germany) has initiated an ambitious project: the publication in German of a great number of documentary sources on early modern European Expansion. His proposal was made before an international scholarly committee in Bamberg on 6–8 Septermber, 1977, and received its full support. Concerning his project, Prof. Schmitt wrote the following article:Anyone who is even superficially informed about source publications concerning early modern history will quickly remark that publications are urgently needed about the history of the European Expansion. Especially in the German-speaking world is this need obvious. There are publications on various themes, as for instance the ‘Bauernkrieg’ or the Reformation, but very seldom do we find published sources on one of the most central developments of the history of the 15th–18th century, European expansion overseas and the reaction it caused on Europe itself.

Early Modern History of Ottoman Bilād al-Šām

Arabica ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 399
Author(s):  
Thomas Philipp
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
History Of

The Geographies and Methodologies of Religion in the Journal of Early Modern History

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 545-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Clossey
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Invasive Approach ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
History Of

Looking at historiography and methodology for the risks of Eurocentrism and presentism, this essay reflects on the study of the history of religion in the two decades of the Journal of Early Modern History’s life to date. It first counts the locations of the subjects of the Journal’s articles, both generally and specifically on religion, to measure patterns in geographical focus. Considering the language these articles use to describe religion, the essay then draws a contrast between treating religion on its own terms and adapting a more analytical, though invasive, approach. Andrew Gow’s emphasis on continuity between the medieval and the early-modern inspires a late-traditional perspective that avoids both eurocentrism and presentism.

scholarly journals On Raising and Educating the Nobility in Russia and in Europe: Results of International Cooperation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia But
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
General Notion ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Educational Trajectories ◽  
Different Parts

This review examines a collection of sixteen research papers by a group of renowned Russian and non-Russian specialists in early modern history. The authors try to formulate the essence of the all-European ideal of noble education and to outline the educational trajectories and strategies of the nobility both from Russia and different parts of Europe. The papers refer to a considerable number of archival sources and employ relevant methods and original approaches. The authors agree that during the period in question, for a well-educated representative of the European nobility, it was important to be able to communicate with those of equal standing, which entailed following social niceties and the art of letter-writing. As for academic knowledge, a nobleman was expected to have a general notion of various domains, including new disciplines, such as fortification, cameralism, mining, agriculture, etc. The reviewer criticises the scholarly apparatus of the publication and its design.

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