European Modern Life: Religion, Witchcraft, Enlightenment

Author: Richard van Dülmen
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Europe in the Modern Era provides an overview of the daily lives of Europeans from the 16th to the 18th centuries from a cultural history perspective. Home and Family explores the lives of urban and rural residents within their living environments: birth and childhood, love and marriage, old age and death. Illustrated with 64 images. Villages and Cities delves into the world of village and urban life, vividly describing farmers and merchants, artisans and their guilds, festivals, customs, public life, and state power. Illustrated with 68 images. Religion, Witchcraft, and the Enlightenment examines the great religious movement of the Reformation, witchcraft, superstition, and the profound spiritual transformation of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Explores how the Reformation and the Enlightenment influenced people's lives. Illustrated with 63 images. Richard van Dülmen, the author, is a professor of modern history at the University of Saarland in Germany.