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Early Modern period

early modern
(1500 to 1750 A.D.)


The Early Modern period is a period of change and reorientation. The period begins with economic and religous upheavals in Europe, as the opposed forces of Reformation and Counter-reformation struggle, plunging Europe into bloody warfare of a kind never seen before. This is also a period of growth and of opening; the age of discovery, when the establishment of new trade routes and new forms of mercantile endeavour create the basis for a qualitatively as well as quantitatively different world economy.

In this period, my interest lies chiefly with the East India trade (particularly of the Danish East India Company) and with the Thirty Years' War.


original material at this site

A glossary of useful terms for the period 1500-1750 (in Danish).

There is a special theme page on the East India trade, with some original material, at this site.

general links

The British royal dynasties of the Tudors and Stuarts.

English Renaissance and 17th century texts are available from Voice of the Shuttle.

A timeline of the 1600s is available at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Sweden - it's in Swedish, though.


documents available on-line

Note: For additional documents, see my page on Historians and Philosophers of the Early Modern Period.


Book recommendations:

Early Modern Europe 1500-1789 (History of Europe)
by Helmut Koenigsberger

War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime, 1618-1789
by Matthew Smith Anderson

...in association with Amazon.com


This page is the work of Peter Ravn Rasmussen.

Updated: August 10, 1998.

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