Course Number: 
234
Semesters Offered: 
Spring
Credits: 
4+

Examines the powerful and often unpredictable influence of ideas and the role of economic developments in shaping institutions and people’s experiences in early modern Europe. Special attention is given to the interplay of popular and high culture; the effect of commercial capitalism on women and on society as a whole; the emergence of powerful monarchies; and the tensions between reason and folly, and between dreams of a godly society and fears of demonic forces. Option of doing some reading in French, Latin, or German.

Prerequisite: 
History 100 or second-year standing.

Instructor(s):

Staff

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