Encyclopedia of Early Modern History, volume 10: (Occupation - Politica Christiana)

The Encyclopedia of Early Modern History offers 400 years of early modern history in one work. Experts from all over the world have joined in a presentation of the scholarship on the great era between the mid-15th to the mid-19th centuries. The perspective is European. That does not mean, however, that the view on the rest of the world is blocked. On the contrary: the multifaceted interrelatedness of European and other cultures is scrutinized extensively.

The Encyclopedia of Early Modern History addresses major historical questions:

• which ideas, inventions, and events changed people’s lives?

• in which ways did living conditions change?

• how do political, social, and economic developments interlock?

• which major cultural currents have begun to become apparent?

• how did historical interpretation of certain phenomena change? The individual articles are connected to one another as in a web of red threads. The reader who follows the threads will keep coming upon new and unexpected contexts and links.