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 in the profound transitions of the early modern period. Taking a global and comparative approach to historical issues, the distinguished contributors explore the absorbing theme of individual and community in the early modern period. Taken together, their essays show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. Contributing significantly 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, and modern history, and on the Reformation and Renaissance.