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Last offered: Autumn 2007
HISTORY 331E: Paper, Printing, and Digital Revolutions: Transformations of the Book (HISTORY 231E)
What is a book? This seminar explores the conceptual implications of approximately two millennia of transformations in the physical and material properties of books. How have the meaning and authority we assign the written word changed as technologies of book production and dissemination have evolved, and how have they remained continuous? Topics covered include the rise of the medieval manuscript codex, the emergence of print culture in early modern Europe, and current debates over the nature of text in the digital age.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
HISTORY 331G: European Reformations (HISTORY 231G, RELIGST 231, RELIGST 331)
Readings in and discussion of theological and social aspects of sixteenth century reformations: Luther, Radical Reform, Calvin, and Council of Trent, missionary expansion, religious conflict, creative and artistic expressions. Texts include primary sources and secondary scholarly essays and monographs.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Pitkin, B. (PI)
;
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 332B: Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire (ITALIAN 332B)
Between 1200-1600, Venice created a powerful empire at the boundary between East and West that controlled much of the Mediterranean, with a merchant society that allowed social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist. Topics include the features of Venetian society, the relationship between center and periphery, order and disorder, orthodoxy and heresy, the role of politics, art, and culture in the Venetian Renaissance, and the empire's decline as a political power and reinvention as a tourist site and living museum.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Findlen, P. (PI)
HISTORY 332F: The Scientific Revolution
What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals and institutions including Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, the early Royal Society, and less well-known contemporaries. New meanings of observing, collecting, experimenting, and philosophizing, and political, religious, and cultural ramifications in early modern Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Findlen, P. (PI)
;
Riskin, J. (PI)
HISTORY 332G: When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo
In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned 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 and religion. Considers the nature and definition of intellectual heresy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and examines the writings of Galileo's infamous predecessor Giordano Bruno (burned at the stake in 1600). Looks closely at documents surrounding the trial and related literature on Renaissance and Reformation Italy in order to understand the perspectives of various participants in this famous event. Focal point of seminar involves the examination of the many different histories that can be produced from Galileo's trial. What, in the end, were the crimes of Galileo?
Last offered: Winter 2011
HISTORY 333: From 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).
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Como, D. (PI)
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.
Last offered: Winter 2015
HISTORY 333K: The Invention of the Modern Republic (HISTORY 233K)
Examines the history of republican thinking in the Atlantic World from the Renaissance to the French Revolution.
Last offered: Spring 2010
HISTORY 334: The Enlightenment (DLCL 324, FRENCH 244, HISTORY 234, HISTORY 432A, HUMNTIES 324)
The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Baker, K. (PI)
;
Riskin, J. (PI)
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