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Instructor: Hilmar M. Pabel Office Hours pabel@sfu.ca
Fall 2004 Tuesdays: 12:30-15:20 AQ (4100) Thursdays: 13:30-14:20 (K 8666), 14:30-15:20 (WMX 3515) Schedule of Readings and Assignments
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 Michelstadt, Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall), built in 1484. Image credit: Sehenswürdigkeiten in Michelstadt, http://www.odenwald.de/sights/odw-mi.htm |
Content
In this upper-division course, we will begin by familiarizing ourselves with a comprehensive outline of the history of the German (aka Holy Roman)
Empire from 1500 to 1800. At the same time, we will attempt to see how the broader political narrative of German history relates to the social
history of specific rural communities. In the second half of the semester we will pay close attention to the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).
Students will be encouraged to write a research paper on this topic, although they may choose to write on any aspect of early modern German history.
Our methodological objective will to be to build on basic research skills acquired in lower-division courses by putting a firm grasp of factual information in the service of broader interpretive questions derived from a variety of readings. Students will do this independently and collaboratively, in oral and in written form. Preparation for and work in class will help students develop skills for producing the research paper due at the end of the semester.
History 331 will mix a traditional lecture format with the active and critical involvement of students. Class participation, the result of individual effort and group work, will be essential.
Classes begin on Tuesday, 7 September. You must attend lecture and tutorial in the first week of class. Please bring Hughes, Early Modern Germany to the first class. We will cover pp. 1-29 on 7 September.
Course requirements
· Participation = 20%
· Midterm Paper (1000 words, due 14 October) = 20%
· Midterm Exam (19 October) = 20% Details revised as of 5 October
· Prospectus for final paper (due 2 November) = 10%
· Research Paper (2000 words, due 2 December) = 30%
Texts to be purchased
· Michael Hughes, Early Modern Germany.
· David Sabean, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany.
· Ronald Asch, The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-1648.
· Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of a Simpleton.
Recommended preparation: History 220, 223.
Links relevant to the history of early modern Germany.
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