This six-volume set presents the history of Europe from the Renaissance, the printing revolution, and the Protestant Reformation in the 1400s and 1500s through the Scientific Revolution of the 1600s, and the Enlightenment and the French Revolution of the 1700s. With 1150 articles by specialists in art, religion, philosophy, science and technology, ranging from essays to biographies, this set places European history within a world history context and shows the development of ideas, customs and institutions that have spread around the globe. The encyclopedia also covers contributions of Asia, Africa and the New World to European thought and culture.