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The completely revised and updated version of this famous book examines sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole and explores the various political structures of the age. Central to the book, is the Reformation and the religious and intellectual movements that fuelled it. A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the town-life in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of political change. An entirely new chapter on `Social Life', however, now takes account of the new work on demographic history, on attitudes to women and the family, and on the impact of education, disease and war.