Lives Uncovered

A Sourcebook of Early Modern Europe

By: Nicholas Terpstra (Editor)

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Paperback | 3 July 2019

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304 Pages

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Curated by acclaimed scholar Nicholas Terpstra, Lives Uncovered is a captivating collection of early modern primary sources organized around the human life cycle. The collection begins with a short essay titled "How to Read a Primary Source," which helps readers recognize different kinds of primary sources and introduces the idea of critical reading. A second brief essay, "Life Cycles in the Early Modern Period," details the organization of the volume and explains each stage in the life cycle within its historical context.

Over 150 readings examine men and women from different social classes and different religious and racial groups, addressing topics that include sex and sexuality, food and drink, poverty, crime and punishment, religious tension and coexistence, and migration and emigration. Using a creative range of sources such as letters, wills, laws, diaries, fiction, and poems, Terpstra gives readers a comprehensive picture of everyday life in early modern Europe and in other parts of the globe that Europeans were beginning to settle and colonize.

Each of the life-cycle chapters includes a combination of longer readings, shorter readings, and images. Every reading begins with a short introduction that sets the context of the primary source, while review questions complement the main themes of the readings. Over 30 illustrations serve as non-textual primary sources. An index is also provided.

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"Terpstra has opened up the past in a dynamic and invigorating way. Students will no doubt be enthralled by dipping into this collection. It brings out a new three-dimensional view of the history of this important period of cultural and geographic expansion. Nicholas Terpstra’s Lives Uncovered is an essential source with which to teach the social history of early modern Europe."

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