Presented within the frame of ‘early modern history’ and ‘cultural history’, this course explores early-modern Europe through the three main historiographical categories with which it is usually associated: Renaissance, Reformation, and the Age of Discovery. It investigates the people, events, and ideas that shaped early modern Europe. While roughly adhering to a chronological structure, and focusing on the period 1450–1750, the overall approach will be thematic.
The course introduces students to the foundational themes, methods and skills necessary for the study of upper-level history. With a particular focus on the study of primary sources, including site visits in the city of Rome, it enables students to explore for themselves the characteristics of early modern Europe.
The assessment schedule for this course is set out in stages to allow for the incremental development of core skills in the study of history. It is student-centred and involves short written essays about set primary and secondary readings for the course (with feedback), seminar leadership, site visit leadership, and an examination.
The course introduces students to the foundational themes, methods and skills necessary for the study of upper-level history. With a particular focus on the study of primary sources, including site visits in the city of Rome, it enables students to explore for themselves the characteristics of early modern Europe.
The assessment schedule for this course is set out in stages to allow for the incremental development of core skills in the study of history. It is student-centred and involves short written essays about set primary and secondary readings for the course (with feedback), seminar leadership, site visit leadership, and an examination.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.
Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.
Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.
All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.
A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Programme
***2020 timetable Semester II, First Class 2 March: The cultural History of Early Modern Europe, M-STO/02, Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-6pm***Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.
Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.
Core Documentation
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.
All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.
A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Type of delivery of the course
This course offers a stimulating and effective variety of modes for learning about Early Modern History, inspired by Anglophone university pedagogical practice. Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Both are student-focused and interactive Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week. Total class hours: 36. Please note that the content and assessment of this course is designed to accommodate students who do not have English as a first language, or who are studying Early-Modern History for the first time.Type of evaluation
Final result of the course will be out of a maximum of 30 (e lode). Final result comprises a number of tasks based on class work, site visits and oral exam.5r teacher profile teaching materials
Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.
Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.
Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.
All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.
A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Programme
***2020 timetable Semester II, First Class 2 March: The cultural History of Early Modern Europe, M-STO/02, Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-6pm***Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.
Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.
Core Documentation
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.
All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.
A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Type of delivery of the course
This course offers a stimulating and effective variety of modes for learning about Early Modern History, inspired by Anglophone university pedagogical practice. Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Both are student-focused and interactive Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week. Total class hours: 36. Please note that the content and assessment of this course is designed to accommodate students who do not have English as a first language, or who are studying Early-Modern History for the first time.Type of evaluation
Final result of the course will be out of a maximum of 30 (e lode). Final result comprises a number of tasks based on class work, site visits and oral exam.5r teacher profile teaching materials
Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.
Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.
Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.
All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.
A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Programme
***2020 timetable Semester II, First Class 2 March: The cultural History of Early Modern Europe, M-STO/02, Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-6pm***Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.
Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.
Core Documentation
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.
All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.
A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Type of delivery of the course
This course offers a stimulating and effective variety of modes for learning about Early Modern History, inspired by Anglophone university pedagogical practice. Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Both are student-focused and interactive Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week. Total class hours: 36. Please note that the content and assessment of this course is designed to accommodate students who do not have English as a first language, or who are studying Early-Modern History for the first time.Type of evaluation
Final result of the course will be out of a maximum of 30 (e lode). Final result comprises a number of tasks based on class work, site visits and oral exam.5r teacher profile teaching materials
Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.
Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.
Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.
All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.
A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Programme
***2020 timetable Semester II, First Class 2 March: The cultural History of Early Modern Europe, M-STO/02, Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-6pm***Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.
Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.
Core Documentation
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.
All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.
A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Type of delivery of the course
This course offers a stimulating and effective variety of modes for learning about Early Modern History, inspired by Anglophone university pedagogical practice. Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Both are student-focused and interactive Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week. Total class hours: 36. Please note that the content and assessment of this course is designed to accommodate students who do not have English as a first language, or who are studying Early-Modern History for the first time.Type of evaluation
Final result of the course will be out of a maximum of 30 (e lode). Final result comprises a number of tasks based on class work, site visits and oral exam.5r