Guide to the Study of Early Modern European History For Students ...

Monod, Paul Kléber. The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: N.L.B., 1974.
Ertman, Thomas. Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern
Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Miller, John, ed. Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Europe. New York: St. Martin's, 1990.
Henshall, Nicholas. The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early Modern European
History. London - New York: Longman, 1992.
Major, J. Russell. From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and
Estates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Mousnier, Roland E. The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy, 1589-1789: Society and
the State. Trans. Brian Pearce and Arthur Goldhammer. 2 vols. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1979-84.
Potter, David. A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1995.
Collins, James B. The State in Early Modern France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995.
Ranum, Orest. The Fronde: A French Revolution, 1648-1652. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.
Strauss, Gerald. Law, Resistance, and the State: The Opposition to Roman Law in Reformation
Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
*Raeff, Marc. The Well-Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change through Law in the
Germanies and Russia, 1600-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
*Herzog, Tamar. Defining Nations: Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish
America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Peter Riesenberg, Citizenship in the Western Tradition: Plato to Rousseau (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1992)
Wells, Charlotte C. Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1994.
Bell, David A. Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
2.21 POLITICAL THOUGHT
**Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1978.
**Allen, John William. A History of Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century. London: Methuen,
1928.
**Mesnard, Pierre. L'Essor de la philosophie politique au XVIe siècle. Paris: Boivin & Cie., 1936.
**Figgis, John Neville. Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius, 1414-1625. 2nd ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916.
**Koselleck, Reinhart. Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988.
**Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. Trans. George
Schwab. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.
*Davis, Kathleen. Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the
Politics of Time. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
*Franklin, Julian H. Jean Bodin and the Sixteenth-Century Revolution in the Methodology of Law and
History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.
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