HIST 241 - The Early Modern World

This course will explore early modern Europe, c. 15th through 18th centuries, a period of fundamental transformations for the individual, the state and Christendom as a whole. Here the seeds of the modern world were sown. How did Renaissance ideas about the value of Man change and challenge one’s relationship with God, the state and each other? In what way did art bring human beings closer to God and each other? What was worth dying for in a world wracked by civil and religious war? How did politics affect the religious and vice versa? What impact did the disocvery of “new” worlds have on the imagination? Thease are some of the queations that students will have the opportunity to explore through lecture, discussion and examinations of primary sources.

Credit(s): 4
General Education Designations: Ethics & Values, Cultural & Textual Inquiry
Offered: every other year.