Renaissance and Reformation

ISBN	9780761476504       © 2007

Specifications

8 1/2" X 11"; 288 pages in each volume of articles; 1584 total p; Full Color Throughout; Library Binding

Editor(s)

James A. Patrick

Interest/Age Group

HIGH SCHOOL AND UP

No. of Volumes

6

Special Features

More than 1,400 photographs, diagrams, illustrations, maps, and chronologies

List Price

US$ 671.36

Discounted Price

US$ 469.95

This sweeping, detailed, and strikingly beautiful new reference set (one of Booklist magazine’s Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers) examines a highly significant period in European history, the four-hundred-year span from 1300 to 1700, with primary focus on the critical three centuries from 1350 to 1650. These centuries begin with the structures and civilization of the High Middle Ages entering a gradual decline. As the people of Europe rebound from the twin catastrophes of plague and warfare, they create a range of societies that seek to incorporate the heritage and learning of their classical past and to forge a fresh understanding of the human being’s place in the world. This new outlook—humanism—became the foundation for all present-day societies of the West.

Arrangement

-	5 volumes of articles in A-Z format
-	Volume indexes
-	Additional index volume
-	158 articles
-	All entries include:
	-	Topic summary
	-	One or more display boxes, including primary-source, biographical, special feature, and analysis panels
	-	Photographs, diagrams, and illustrations
	-	Guide to further reading
	-	Cross-references to related articles
-	Many entries include:
	-	Maps
	-	Chronologies

Scope
Renaissance and Reformation opens a window on high politics and daily life alike; on the technological and scientific advances that became the basis of the industrial present; on awe-inspiring achievements in literature, the arts, and architecture; on religions division and conflict; and on the accomplishments of individuals of all sorts: architects, painters, philosophers, writers, musicians, and figures of authority in the secular and ecclesiastical spheres. Articles concerned with life as most people actually lived it deal with familiar topics, such as agriculture, astrology, disease, and households, and with unfamiliar but no less important ones, too: bearbaiting, chivalry, and magic.

Index Volume 6 contains:

-	Comprehensive time line
-	Comprehensive glossary
-	Resources for further study, including
	-	Thematically arranged and annotated bibliography
	-	Lists of Internet resources and places to go
	-	Resources for younger readers
-	List and index of maps
-	Biographical index
-	Cultural and literary index
-	Index of philosophy, religion, politics, and scholarship
-	Index of places
-	Index of science, technology, and exploration
-	Index of wars and battles
-	Comprehensive index

Benefits
Thought-provoking articles engage all aspects of life in early modern Europe and cast light on the forces and circumstances that transformed first a continent and later much of the modern world.