Seventeenth-Century Europe State, Conflict and Social Order in Europe, 1598–1700 /

• Main Author: Munck, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave, 2005.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Palgrave History of Europe
• Subjects: History.; Europe > History.; European History.

This thematically organised text provides a compelling introduction and guide to the key problems and issues of this highly controversial century. Offering a genuinely comparative history, Thomas Munck adeptly balances Eastern and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Ottoman Empire against the bett...

Table of Contents:

• Chronology of Main Events 1598-1700
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Maps
• The Thirty Years War in the German Lands
• Government in Wartime Europe
• The Framework of Life
• Enterprise and Profit
• The Structure of Society: Nobility, Office-Holders and the Rich
• The Structure of Society: Urban Life
• Provincial Revolts, Civil Wars and Crises in Mid-century Europe
• The Structure of Society: Peasant and Seigneur
• Beliefs, Mentalités, Knowledge and the Printed Text
• The Arts, the Value of Creativity and the Cost of Appearances
• Absolute Monarchy and the Return of Order After 1660
• Power and State-Sponsored Violence in the Later Seventeenth Century
• Conclusions
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Index.