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DI NEPI SERENA
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This course will discuss the most relevant developments and turning points in “Western” history from the Renaissance to the Age of Napoleon. We will challenge traditional Early Modern Historiographical categories, spaces and chronologies by working from a global perspective.
The first part of the course will present events and topics on a chronological path. We will question in order: the Renaissance; geographical “discoveries” and the building of Iberian Empires; Reformations; Wars of Religion and Continental Civil Wars; Christian-Islamic interactions in the Mediterranean spaces and in non European areas; 18th century crisis; Politic, Economic and Cultural global challenges; Absolutist States and Mercantilist States; English Revolutions; Scientific Revolution; Wars and the Balance of Power from within and without Europe; the Enlightenment; new models of production and the first industrialization; the Age of Revolutions, from American Independence to the French Revolution; The Age of Napoleon and the opening of a new Era. In the second part of the course, specific lessons will be devoted to the historiography of the Reformations by moving from the book by Nicholas Terpstra on the 16th century global movement of refugees. In the third part, students will present short essays on the topics of the course.
Anthony Grafton, David A. Bell (2018). The West. A new history (WW Norton): https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393640816/featured
Only chapters: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Nicholas Terpstra(2015). Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World: An Alternative History of the Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
***There are no additional texts for non-attending students
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