HISTORY 332G: Early Modern Cities (HISTORY 232G)
Colloquium on the history of early modern European cities, covering urbanization, street life, neighborhoods, fortifications, guilds and confraternities, charity, vagrancy, and begging, public health, city-countryside relationship, urban constitutions, and confederations. Assignments include annotated bibliography, book review, and a final paper. Second-quarter continuation of research seminar available (HIST299S or HIST402).
Last offered: Summer 2021
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 333: Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts (HISTORY 233)
English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political culture of the ruling elite, emergence of Puritanism, and causes of the Civil War.
HISTORY 333 is a prerequisite for
HISTORY 402 (Spring quarter).
Last offered: Winter 2025
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 333C: Two British Revolutions (HISTORY 233C)
Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in the late 17th century; changing contours of religious life; the crisis leading to the Glorious Revolution; and the new order that emerged after the deposing of James II.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Como, D. (PI)
HISTORY 333F: Political Thought in Early Modern Britain (HISTORY 233F)
1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life.
Last offered: Winter 2025
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 334: The Enlightenment (DLCL 324, HISTORY 234, HISTORY 432A)
This course explores the European Enlightenment: the eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural movement that gave rise to some of the ideas that informed the American and French political revolutions at the end of the century. These included ideas of human equality and human rights, and the foundation of knowledge and authority in reason and experience rather than in religion and tradition. At the same time, Enlightenment writers also habitually ranked human beings by sex, race, and class and drew upon the European conquest and plunder of the rest of the world to frame their theories. Because of its importance and its profound contradictions, the Enlightenment has recently been the focus of much controversy. In the course, we will discuss all of this - the ideas, the contradictions, and the controversy.
Last offered: Winter 2025
| Units: 5
HISTORY 334P: The Age of Plague: Medicine and Society, 1300-1750
(Graduates, enroll in 334P. Undergraduates, enroll in 234P.) The arrival of plague in Eurasia in 1347-51 affected many late medieval and early modern societies. It transformed their understanding of disease, raised questions about the efficacy of medical knowledge, and inspired new notions of public health. This class explores the history of medicine in the medieval Islamic and European worlds. Changing ideas about the body, the roles of different healers and religion in healing, the growth of hospitals and universities, and the evolution of medical theory and practice will be discussed. How did medicine and society change in the age of plague?
Last offered: Autumn 2020
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 334R: Risk and Credit Before Modern Finance (HISTORY 234R)
In today's world, credit scores are nearly as important as citizenship. Creditworthiness is measured in numbers, but is also bound up with moral qualities. To lack credit is to be on the margins of society, and vice versa. How did we get here? How did lenders mitigate risks before credit scores were available? Where do the risk management tools of modern finance come from? How did merchants trade over long distances when information technology was extremely poor? This one-unit course will address these pressing questions from a historical perspective, starting from the modern U.S. and reaching back in time to the Middle Ages. Classroom discussions and readings include articles written by historians and social scientists, as well as primary sources in English translation.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| Units: 1
HISTORY 335: Global Voyages: Navigating the Early Modern World (HISTORY 235, HISTORY 435A)
[Graduate students completing a two-quarter research seminar must enroll in 435A in Winter and 435B in Spring.] This seminar explores global travel, knowledge, curiosity, experience, and understanding, ca. 1500-1800. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period of global realignments, an age of empires, missionaries, embassies, and trading companies. This seminar takes students around the world, following global travelers, merchants, missionaries, and mapmakers. Students will work extensively with rare books, manuscripts, maps and other artifacts, especially in the Rumsey Map Center to design an exhibit. Urbano Monti's 1587 world map and Francesco Carletti's accidental circumnavigation of the world, 1594-1603, will guide our global voyage, contextualized by sources, artifacts, and histories from many other parts of the world.
Last offered: Winter 2024
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 335C: Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology (HISTORY 235C, HISTORY 435C)
Colloquium on witchcraft, magic, and demonology in early modern Europe. Readings will cover the history of the European witch hunts, demonology, and the magical practices and beliefs of Europeans between 1400 and 1800. Assignments will include a book review, historiographical presentation, and a final paper proposing a research topic. Graduate students may take the course as the first half of a research seminar by enrolling in
HISTORY 435C in Autumn and 435D in Winter.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 335D: The Trial of Galileo: Science, Politics, and Religion (HISTORY 235D, ITALIAN 233, ITALIAN 333, RELIGST 235X)
In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned by the Roman Inquisition for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that led to the trial of Galileo and looks at multiple perspectives on this signal event in the history of science, politics, and religion. Considers the nature and definition of intellectual heresy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and examines the writings of Galileo's infamous predecessor Giordano Bruno (burned at the stake in 1600). Looks closely at the trial documents and related literature to explore the many different histories that can be produced from Galileo's trial. What, in the end, were the crimes of Galileo? Seminar meets regularly in Special Collections to give students hands-on experience of rare books and manuscripts, including Galileo's own works.
Last offered: Autumn 2024
| Units: 4-5