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3.00 Credits
Examines, through lectures and discussions, the high medieval papacy; the rise of new lay religious movements; Franciscans and Dominicans; dissent and heresy; the Inquisition; Jews and minorities; the rise of universities; scholasticism and humanism; the development of law; Parliament and constitutionalism; the Hundred Years War; the Black Death; the papal schism and conciliarism; gender roles; family structures and child rearing; Europe’s relations with Islam and Byzantium; and the rise of commerce, cities and urban values, as well as of the “new monarchies.” Peterson.
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3.00 Credits
Examines, through lectures and discussions, the Italian Renaissance within the framework of European religious, political and cultural development. The rise and impact of commercial and urban values on religious and political life in the Italian communes to the time of Dante. Cultural and political life in the “despotic” signorie and in republics such as Florence and Venice. The diffusion of Renaissance cultural ideals from Florence to the other republics and courts of 15th-century Italy, to the papacy, and to Christian humanists north of the Alps. Readings from Dante, Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, Pico della Mirandola and Machiavelli. Peterson.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the origins, development, and consequences of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations of the 16th century. The late medieval religious environment; the emergence of new forms of lay religious expression; the impact of urbanization; and the institutional dilemmas of the church. The views of leading reformers, such as Luther, Calvin, and Loyola; and the impact of differing social and political contexts; and technological innovations, such as printing, on the spread of reform throughout Europe. The impact of reform and religious strife on state development and the emergence of doctrines of religious toleration and philosophical skepticism; recent theses and approaches emphasizing “confessionalization,” “social discipline,” and “microhistory.” Peterson.
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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the construction of and relationship between public and private spheres in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. This class investigates the relationship between civil society and democracy, how women’s roles were redefined at the advent of modernity and the relationship between the public and the private spheres. Horowitz.
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3.00 Credits
Historical study of France from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution, tracing the changes to French society, culture and politics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics include absolutism under Louis XIV, the Enlightenment, socioeconomic changes during the 18th century, and the Revolution. Horowitz.
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3.00 Credits
Historical study of France from the Revolution through the present, tracing France’s revolutionary tradition and the continuing “Franco-French” war it spawned, and the construction of and challenges to French national identity. Topics include the successive revolutions of the 19th century, the acquisition and loss of two empires, and the transformations in French society brought by wars, industrialization, and immigration. Horowitz.
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3.00 Credits
The impact of the French Revolution on Germany, the onset of industrialization, the revolution of 1848, the career of Bismarck and Germany’s wars of national unification, the Kulturkampf between Protestants and Catholics, the rise of the socialist labor movement, liberal feminism and the movement for women’s rights, the origins of “Imperialism” in foreign policy, and Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War. Patch.
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3.00 Credits
The failure of Germany’s first attempt at democracy in the Weimar Republic, the interaction between art and politics, the mentality of the Nazis, the institutions of the Third Reich, the Second World War and Holocaust, the occupation and partition of Germany in 1945, the reasons for the success of democratic institutions in the Federal Republic, the origins of modern feminism, the economic collapse of the German Democratic Republic, and the process of national reunification in 1989-91. Patch.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of British history to 1688 through the study of various themes and events, such as social, political and constitutional development, the breach with Rome, the Puritan Revolt, and the Revolution of 1688. Sanders.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of British history since 1688 through the study of various themes and events, such as the England of Newton and Johnson; conflict with France; the growth of the Empire; adjustments to economic, social, and political changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. Sanders.
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