Individual and community in the early modern world / Charles H. Parker -- Early modern Europe and the early modern world / Jerry Bentley -- German burghers and peasants in the Reformation and the peasants' war : partners or competitors? / Thomas A. Brady, Jr. -- A tale of two brothers : corporate identity and the revolt in the towns of Holland / Henk van Nierop -- Family and community in the Spanish world / Carla Rahn Phillips -- Individual and community among the medieval travelers to Asia / William D. Phillips Jr. -- Settle or return : migrant communities in Northern Europe, ca. 1600-1800 / Douglas Catterall -- Forcing the doors of heathendom : ethnography, violence and the Dutch East India Company / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Creating a littoral community : Muslim reformers in the early modern Indian Ocean world / Michael N. Pearson -- Custom, community, and the crown : lawyers and the reordering of French customary law / Marie Seong-Hak Kim -- The individual on trial in the sixteenth-century Netherlands : between tradition and modernity / Hugo de Schepper, translated by Elizabeth Bradbury Pollnow -- 'They have highly offended the community of God' : rituals of ecclesiastical discipline and pastoral membership in the community in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German parishes / Susan C. Karant-Nunn -- Embodying the Middle Ages, advancing modernity : religious women in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Europe and beyond / Ulrike Strasser -- The transitional role of Jacques Coeur in the fifteenth century / Kathryn L. Reyerson -- The individual merchant and the trading nation in sixteenth-century Antwerp / Donald J. Harreld -- Between profit and power : the Dutch East India Company and institutional early modernities in the "age of mercantilism" / Markus P.M. Vink