Bücher der Reihe Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe 4 Volume Paperback Set

Religious beliefs were fundamental to the cultural fabric of early modern Europe. This volume, first published in 2007, examines the role of religion as a vehicle for cultural exchange with case studies ranging across Europe. It will appeal to scholars in early modern European history, history of religion, and social and cultural history.

This 2007 volume explores the importance of correspondence and communication to cultural exchanges in early modern Europe. Leading historians examine the correspondence of scholars, scientists, spies, artists, noblemen, and even illiterate peasants. They study the various functions that correspondence had for members of different strata in European society.

As transfer points between different economic and cultural zones, cities are crucial to shaping processes of cultural exchange. This volume compares and contrasts the spaces, sites and buildings which expressed and shaped inter-cultural relationships within the cities of early modern Europe and looks at the central role of foreigners.

This 2007 volume reveals how a first European identity was forged from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Cultural exchange played a central role in the elites' fashioning of self. The cultures they exchanged and often integrated with included palaces, dresses and jewellery but also gestures and dances.