Europe in the Sixteenth Century

Europe in the Sixteenth Century by Bowler, G.Q.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780582418639.

This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation - was originally published in Denys Hays famous Series, `A General History of Europe. It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its different aspects through the various political structures of the age - empires, monarchies, city-republics - and how they functioned and related to one another. A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the growing importance of town-life in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of political change.