Silver Library

2 total works

Europe in the Sixteenth Century

by H. G. Koenigsberger, George L. Mosse, and Gerry Bowler

Published May 1968

This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Series, `A General History of Europe'.

It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its different aspects through the various political structures of the age - empires, monarchies, city-republics - and how they functioned and related to one another. A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the growing importance of town-life in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of political change.

Early Modern Europe 1500-1789

by H. G. Koenigsberger

Published 18 May 1987

This book opens at the climax of the Renaissance and the dawning of a new age. Challenges to the old social order - especially the Reformation - and the growing power of the individual states opened the way for sustained expansion, but also led to splits across Europe and incessant war. These powerful and vast themes are the subject of this impressive survey.