Between the Middle Ages and
Modernity
Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between
individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the
early modern period. Historians have traditionally identified the
origins of a modern individualist spirit in the European Renaissance
and Reformation. Yet since the 1960s, evolving scholarship has
challenged this perspective by calling into question its basic
assumptions about individualism, its exclusive focus on elite
individuals, and its inherent Eurocentric bias. Arguing that individual
identity drew from traditional forms of community, these essays by
leading scholars convincingly show that individual and community
created and recreated one another in the major structures,
interactions, and transitions of early modern times. The authors
contend that on the one hand, communities provided the stability that
allowed for individual agency, even as they imposed new forms of
discipline that confined individuals to more rigid moral and social
norms. On the other hand, individuals established forms of association
to advance their own economic, social, political, and religious
agendas. Offering an important contribution to our understanding both
of the early modern period and of its historiography, this volume will
be an invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of
medieval, early modern, modern history, on the Renaissance and
Reformation.
Paperback 321
pages Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2007
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