2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American historian at Brigham Young University who specializes in early modern European religious culture — and whose World Gone by: A Family History focuses on Catholic religious life in 17th century Flanders — bringing popular religious culture to life with scholarly rigor.
Geoffrey Parker's 1988 revision and expansion of Michael Roberts's Military Revolution thesis — arguing that tactical, operational, and strategic changes in the 16th-17th centuries transformed European warfare and created the fiscal-military state.