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Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the central features and developments of 16th-century Europe. The author's account of the major events of the age - political and religious conflicts, statebuilding, and exploration - creates a vivid sense of how it would have been to live in this tumultuous century.
Trade Review"Andrew Pettegree is one of the most eloquent and perceptive historians working on early-modern European history, and this work is evidence of that."
C. Scott Dixon, The Queen's University of Belfast "Europe in the Sixteenth Century offers an excellent introduction to the complexities of the sixteenth century and deserves a place on the bookshelf of every library and any student." Reformation
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Table of Contents.
List of Maps and Tables.
List of Illustrations.
1. Time and Space: Living in Sixteenth-Century Europe.
2. Europe in 1500: Political Organization.
3. The Struggle for Italy.
4. The Winds of Change.
5. The Reformation.
6. Charles V and the Defense of Catholic Europe.
7. The Age of Religious War.
8. The French Wars of Religion.
9. The Dutch Revolt.
10. The Making of Protestant Britain.
11. Philip II and the Resolution of the Reformation Conflict.
12. New Worlds.
13. Eastern Europe.
14. Culture.
15. Europe in 1600.
Appendix: List of Major Rulers.
