Hamish Scott has published extensively on eighteenth-century international relations, government and enlightened absolutism, and on the early modern nobility. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews, and is now a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is currently completing a major study, Forming Aristocracy: The Reconfiguration of the European Nobility, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.

the very real achievement the two volumes represent ... will be valuable indeed as introductions, for those, students and established scholars alike, seeking to find their conceptual and bibliographical footing in unfamiliar terrain.

• 1: Hamish Scott: Introduction: 'Early Modern' Europe and the Idea of Early Modernity 2: Valerie Kivelson: The Early Modern Emergence of 'Europe'? 3: Christian Pfister: Weather, Climate, and the Environment 4: Mary Lindemann: Disease and Medicine 5: Anne McCants: Demography 6: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum: Time 7: Hamish Scott: Travel and Communications 8: James R. Raven: Print and Printedness 9: Fania Oz-Salzberger: Languages and Literacy 10: Ann Blair and Devin Fitzgerald: A Revolution in Information? 11: Regina Grafe: Economic and Social Trends 12: Andreas Gestrich: The Social Order 13: Mikolaj Szoltysek: Families and Households 14: Margaret R. Hunt: Sexual Identity and the Family 15: Janine Maegraith and Craig Muldrew: Consumption and Material Life 16: Tom Scott: The Agrarian West 17: Edgar Melton: The Agrarian East 18: James S. Amelang: Country and Town in Mediterranean Europe 19: Rab Houston: Towns and Urbanisation 20: Markus Küpker: Manufacturing 21: David J. Collins, SJ: The Christian Church, 1370-1550 22: Ulinka Rublack: Protestantism and Its Adherents 23: Nicholas Terpstra: Early Modern Catholicism 24: Nikolaos Chrissidis: The World of Orthodoxy 25: David B. Ruderman: The Transformations of Judaism 26: Tijana Krstic: Islam within Europe 27: Caroline Castiglione: The Culture of Peoples 28: Mack Holt: Belief and its Limits

Hamish Scott has published extensively on eighteenth-century international relations, government and enlightened absolutism, and on the early modern nobility. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews, and is now a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is currently completing a major study, Forming Aristocracy: The Reconfiguration of the European Nobility, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.

the very real achievement the two volumes represent ... will be valuable indeed as introductions, for those, students and established scholars alike, seeking to find their conceptual and bibliographical footing in unfamiliar terrain.

• 1: Hamish Scott: Introduction: 'Early Modern' Europe and the Idea of Early Modernity 2: Valerie Kivelson: The Early Modern Emergence of 'Europe'? 3: Christian Pfister: Weather, Climate, and the Environment 4: Mary Lindemann: Disease and Medicine 5: Anne McCants: Demography 6: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum: Time 7: Hamish Scott: Travel and Communications 8: James R. Raven: Print and Printedness 9: Fania Oz-Salzberger: Languages and Literacy 10: Ann Blair and Devin Fitzgerald: A Revolution in Information? 11: Regina Grafe: Economic and Social Trends 12: Andreas Gestrich: The Social Order 13: Mikolaj Szoltysek: Families and Households 14: Margaret R. Hunt: Sexual Identity and the Family 15: Janine Maegraith and Craig Muldrew: Consumption and Material Life 16: Tom Scott: The Agrarian West 17: Edgar Melton: The Agrarian East 18: James S. Amelang: Country and Town in Mediterranean Europe 19: Rab Houston: Towns and Urbanisation 20: Markus Küpker: Manufacturing 21: David J. Collins, SJ: The Christian Church, 1370-1550 22: Ulinka Rublack: Protestantism and Its Adherents 23: Nicholas Terpstra: Early Modern Catholicism 24: Nikolaos Chrissidis: The World of Orthodoxy 25: David B. Ruderman: The Transformations of Judaism 26: Tijana Krstic: Islam within Europe 27: Caroline Castiglione: The Culture of Peoples 28: Mack Holt: Belief and its Limits

Hamish Scott has published extensively on eighteenth-century international relations, government and enlightened absolutism, and on the early modern nobility. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews, and is now a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is currently completing a major study, Forming Aristocracy: The Reconfiguration of the European Nobility, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.

the very real achievement the two volumes represent ... will be valuable indeed as introductions, for those, students and established scholars alike, seeking to find their conceptual and bibliographical footing in unfamiliar terrain.

• 1: Hamish Scott: Introduction: 'Early Modern' Europe and the Idea of Early Modernity 2: Valerie Kivelson: The Early Modern Emergence of 'Europe'? 3: Christian Pfister: Weather, Climate, and the Environment 4: Mary Lindemann: Disease and Medicine 5: Anne McCants: Demography 6: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum: Time 7: Hamish Scott: Travel and Communications 8: James R. Raven: Print and Printedness 9: Fania Oz-Salzberger: Languages and Literacy 10: Ann Blair and Devin Fitzgerald: A Revolution in Information? 11: Regina Grafe: Economic and Social Trends 12: Andreas Gestrich: The Social Order 13: Mikolaj Szoltysek: Families and Households 14: Margaret R. Hunt: Sexual Identity and the Family 15: Janine Maegraith and Craig Muldrew: Consumption and Material Life 16: Tom Scott: The Agrarian West 17: Edgar Melton: The Agrarian East 18: James S. Amelang: Country and Town in Mediterranean Europe 19: Rab Houston: Towns and Urbanisation 20: Markus Küpker: Manufacturing 21: David J. Collins, SJ: The Christian Church, 1370-1550 22: Ulinka Rublack: Protestantism and Its Adherents 23: Nicholas Terpstra: Early Modern Catholicism 24: Nikolaos Chrissidis: The World of Orthodoxy 25: David B. Ruderman: The Transformations of Judaism 26: Tijana Krstic: Islam within Europe 27: Caroline Castiglione: The Culture of Peoples 28: Mack Holt: Belief and its Limits