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Europe --- History --- Sources --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- -History --- -Sources. --- Sources. --- Europe - History - 1492 --- -Europe - History - 1492- - Sources

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This collection offers case studies of European regions that were conquered or became absorbed or integrated by another, revealing the strengths and weaknesses, aspirations and limitations, of the early modern state.

History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Europe --- History --- 1492 --- -Europe - History - 1492 --- -Europe --- -History of Europe --- Europe - History - 1492-

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Apocalyptic expectations played a key role in defining the horizons of life and expectation in early modern Europe. Hope and Heresy investigates the problematic status of a particular kind of apocalyptic expectation—that of a future felicity on earth before the Last Judgement—within Lutheran confessional culture between approximately 1570 and 1630. Among Lutherans expectations of a future felicity were often considered manifestations of a heresy called chiliasm, because they contravened the pessimistic apocalyptic outlook at the core of confessional identity. However, during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, individuals raised within Lutheran confessional culture—mathematicians, metallurgists, historians, astronomers, politicians, and even theologians—began to entertain and publicise hopes of a future earthly felicity. Their hopes were countered by accusations of heresy. The ensuing contestation of acceptable doctrine became a flashpoint for debate about the boundaries of confessional identity itself. Based on a thorough study of largely neglected or overlooked print and manuscript sources, the present study examines these debates within their intellectual, social, cultural, and theological contexts. It outlines, for the first time, a heretofore overlooked debate about the limits and possibilities of eschatological thought in early modernity, and provides readers with a unique look at a formative time in the apocalyptic imagination of European culture.

Religion-History. --- Eschatology. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- History of Religion. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Last things (Theology) --- Religious thought --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Religion—History. --- Europe—History—1492-.

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1755 marked the point at which events in America ceased to be considered subsidiary affairs in the great international rivalry that existed between the colonial powers of Great Britain and France. This book examines the Braddock Campaign of 1755, a segment of the wider ‘Braddock Plan’ that aimed to drive the French from all of the contested regions they occupied in North America. Rather than being an archetypal military history-styled analysis of General Edward Braddock’s foray into the Ohio Valley, this work will argue that British defeat at the infamous Battle of the Monongahela should be viewed as one that ultimately embodied military, political and diplomatic divergences and weaknesses within the British Atlantic World of the eighteenth century. These factors, in turn, hinted at growing schisms in the empire that would lead to the breakup of British North America in the 1770s and the birth of the future United States. Such an interpretation moves away from the conclusion so often advanced that Braddock’s Defeat was a distinctly, and principally ‘British’, martial catastrophe; hence allowing the outcome of this pivotal event in American history to be understood in a different vein than has hitherto been apparent.

History. --- Europe --- France --- Military history. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- History of France. --- History of Military. --- History—1492-. --- United States --- History --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Annals --- Historiography --- Europe-History-1492-. --- France-History. --- Naval history --- Europe—History—1492-. --- France—History.