Graduate Reading List for Early Modern Europe (* denotes books for MA students)

Continental Europe, 1300-1700

1. P. Ari s, Centuries of Childhood 2. M. Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World 3. H. Baron, The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance 4. *M. Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy 5. W. Beik, Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France 6. W. Bouwsma, John Calvin, A Sixteenth-Century Portrait 7. *T. Brady, H. Oberman, J. Tracy (eds), The Handbook of Early Modern Europe 8. *F. Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century 9. *F. Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II 10. *J. Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 11. *P. Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe 12. C. Cipollo, Before the Industrial Revolution 13. *E. Cochrane, Florence in the Forgotten Centuries 14. *N. Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France 15. *J. Delameau, Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire 16. A. Th. van Deursen, Plain Lives in a Golden Age 17. *A.G. Dickens, Martin Luther and the German Reformation 18. E. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe 19. *J.H. Elliott, Imperial Spain 20. *G.R. Elton, The New Cambridge Modern History (vol. 2) 21. J. Flandrin, Families in Former Times 22. *C. Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms 23. A. Grafton, New Worlds, Ancient Texts 24. P. Grendler, Schooling in Renaissance Italy 25. D. Herlihy and C. Klapisch-Zuber. Tuscans and their Families 26. M. Holt, The French Wars of Religion 27. *J. Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages 28. J. Israel, The Dutch Republic, its rise, its greatness, and its fall, 1477-1806 29. *L. Jardine, Erasmus, Man of Letters 30. *D.L. Jensen, The Age of Reform 31. *H. Kamen, Spain, 1469-1714 32. R. Kingdon, Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion 33. P.O. Kristellar, The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino 34. *P.O. Kristellar, Renaissance Thought and its Sources 35. E. Le Roy Ladurie, The Peasants of Languedoc 36. C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image 37. G. Mattingly, Renaissance Diplomacy 38. M. Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death 39. *M. O’Connell, The Counter-Reformation 40. *J. O’Malley, The First Jesuits 41. *L. Origo, The Merchant of Prato 42. Geoffrey Parker, The Dutch Revolt 43. Geoffrey Parker, The Thirty Years War 44. J.H. Parry, The Age of Reconaissance 45. G.R. Potter, The New Cambridge Modern History (Vol. 1) 46. *C. Trinkhaus, In Our Image and Likeness 47. C. Trinkhaus and H. Oberman, The Pursuit of Holiness 48. *M. Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 49. *M. Wiesner-Hanks, Working Women in Renaissance Germany 50. G. Williams, The Radical Reformation

Tudor-Stuart England

1. G.R. Elton, England under the Tudors 2. *P. Laslett, The World We Have Lost 3. *R. Lockyer, Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714 4. *L. Stone, The Causes of the English Revolution 5. *K. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic 6. C. Hill, The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 7. A. Fox, Thomas More 8. L. Baldwin Smith, Elizabeth I 9. A.G. Dickens, The English Reformation 10. C. Russell, Crisis of Parliaments

Total Books for Ph.D. students: 60 Total Books for M.A. students: 28