Preparatory Reading

E. Cameron, ‘Editor's Introduction’, in his: Early Modern Europe (1999)
B. Kümin (ed.), The European World (2009), Part I ‘Starting Points’ (Europe in 1500 / Beyond Europe c. 1500)
A. Pagden, ‘Europe and the World around’, in: Cameron (ed.), Early Modern Europe (1999) (scanned extract of 'Prologue' available here)
R. W. Scribner, ‘Understanding early modern Europe’, in Historical Journal 30 (1987), pp. 743-758 [review article]
Textbook surveys listed under ‘Reference Works'

C. Cook, The Longman Handbook of Early Modern Europe (2001)
G. Elton, Reformation Europe (1963)
S. Fletcher, The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe, 1330-1590 (1999)
J.R. Hale, Renaissance Europe 1480-1520 (1971)
H. Koenigsberger & G. Mosse, Europe in the Sixteenth Century (new edn, 1989)
R. MacKenney, Sixteenth-Century Europe (1993)
G. Elton, New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 2: The Reformation, 1520-1559 (1990 edn) (ebook)
H. C. Darby and Harold Fullard, New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 14: Atlas (1970)
A. Pettegree, Europe in the Sixteenth Century (2002)
R. Porter & M. Teich (eds), The Renaissance in National Context (1992)
J. Shennan, Origins of the Modern European State 1450-1725 (1974)
L. Spitz, The Renaissance and Reformation Movements (1971)
R.N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe c. 1215-c. 1515 (1995)
J.A.F. Thomson, Popes and Princes 1417-1517: Politics and Piety in the Late Medieval Church (1980)

Map of Europe in 1500
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (c. 1505), esp. chaps. 7, 14
Old Serbian Tales, Marko and the Turks (c. 1450)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525?-69), 'The Fight Between Carnival and Lent' (1559)
Jan Hus (1372/3-1415), Final Declaration (1415)
Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book 2: 'The Interior Life: On Meditation'
Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, trans. John Wilson (1509), esp. chapters on ‘Great Illuminated Divines’ and ‘Monks’
Jörg Breu the Elder, ‘A question to a mintmaker’ (1530), showing the sale of indulgences