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The Encyclopedia of Early Modern History offers 400 years of Early Modern History in one work. Experts from all over the world have joined in a presentation of the scholarship on the great era between the mid-15th to the mid-19th centuries. The perspective is European. That does not mean, however, that the view on the rest of the world is blocked. On the contrary: the multifaceted interrelatedness of European and other cultures is scrutinized extensively.

The Encyclopedia of Early Modern History provides the latest answers to history’s key questions:
- Which ideas, inventions, and events changed people’s lives?
- In which ways did living conditions change?
- How do political, social, and economic developments interlock?
- Which major cultural currents have begun to become apparent?
- How did historical interpretation of certain phenomena change?

As in a web of red threads, the individual articles are connected to one another. The reader who follows the threads will keep coming upon new and unexpected contexts and links.

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Executive editor (English edition)
Prof. Dr. Andrew Colin Gow (Edmonton)

Executive editor (German edition)
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Jaeger (Essen)

Subject area 01: State, political authority, and the international system of states
Prof. Dr. Horst Carl (Giessen)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Kampmann (Marburg)

Subject area 02: Global interaction
Prof. Dr. Helmut Bley (Hanover)
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim König (Eichstätt)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rinke (Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Rüther (Vienna)

Subject area 03: Law and constitution
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Brauneder (Vienna)
Prof. Dr. Sibylle Hofer (Bern)
Prof. Dr. Diethelm Klippel (Bayreuth)

Subject area 04: Lifestyles and social change
Prof. Dr. Josef Ehmer (Vienna)
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lenger (Giessen)

Subject area 05: Economy
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister (Münster)
Prof. Dr. Werner Plumpe (Frankfurt am Main)
Prof. Dr. Werner Troßbach (Kassel)

Subject area 06: Natural sciences and medicine
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle (Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Reith (Salzburg)

Subject area 07: Bildung, culture and communication
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behringer (Saarbrücken)
Prof. Dr. Gerrit Walther (Wuppertal)

Subject area 08: Churches and religious culture
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Beutel (Münster)
Prof. Dr. Walter Sparn (Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Subject area 09: Literature, art, and music
Prof. Dr. Markus Fauser (Vechta)
Prof. Dr. Roland Kanz (Bonn)
Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken (Zürich)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Rode-Breymann (Hanover)
Prof. Dr. Silvia S. Tschopp (Augsburg)

Subject area 10: Environment and technological change
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Reith (Salzburg)
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle (Berlin)
"A stellar addition to collections serving research on the early modern period. […] Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." – Brian W. Vetruba, Washington University in St. Louis, in: CHOICE, Vol. 54, No. 8 (April 2017)
Publication schedule:

July 2016: Abandoned Settlement – Beer
December 2016: Beggar - Class consciousness
May 2017: Classical economics - Cyclicality
September 2017: Damages - Epistemology
March 2018: Epistolary Novel - Geocentric model
September 2018: Geocentric model - Indulgence
March 2019: Industrial cycle - Latin Studies
September 2019: Lauda - Migratory labor
March 2020: Military - Occasional verse
September 2020: Occident - Police
March 2021: Police, town/city - Religion, critique of
September 2021: Religion, history of - Settlers' report
March 2022: Seven Years' War - Symbol
September 2022: Symphony - Uomo universal
May 2023: Urban administration - Zunft revolution