Nuove prospettive per la storia dell’Europa dell’età moderna

Abstract

The field of early modern European history has long been a site of methodological innovation, thanks to the Annales school, then microhistory and cultural history. Early modern scholarship has abandoned the notion of modernization in favor of a focus on competing modernities, on the contingency of their development, and on the permeability of cultures as they came into greater contact in an increasingly globalized world. Most recently, an emphasis on practices of interaction and interdependence and on histories of knowledge are signs of the continued vitality of early modern European history.