Field Seminar in Early Modern European History (430-2-20)
Instructors
Lydia Barnett
847/491-7421
Harris Hall - Room 305
Meeting Info
Harris Hall room 101: Tues 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
This seminar is designed to acquaint graduate students with classic and emerging scholarship in Early Modern European history between roughly 1400 and 1800. The course is part of the essential preparation for a graduate field examination in European history but also welcomes the perspectives of students from other fields, programs, and departments. Major topics will include Europe's ties to the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, locality and community, colonialism, the Renaissance, the Reformations, environmental transformations, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, slavery, and the origins of the Atlantic revolutions and Industrial Revolution.
Evaluation Method
Two papers, 60%; Participation in Class Discussion, 40%
Class Materials (Required)
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard, 1983)
Patricia Seed, Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World (Cambridge, 1995)
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (Stanford, 2006)
Deborah Harkness, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Yale, 2007)
Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, 2nd edn. (Yale, 2005)
Class Notes
Concentration: European
Class Attributes
Attendance at 1st class mandatory