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Part 1: A Survey of Early Modern Germany
Objective: to combine a basic political narrative with case studies in social history.
Click on links for class assignments. Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are on reserve at the Bennett Library.
Tuesday, 7 Sept. Hughes, Early Modern Germany, 1-29.
Thursday, 9 Sept. Sabean, Power in the Blood, 1-36.
Tuesday, 14 Sept. Hughes, Early Modern Germany, 30-60. Assignments available.
Thursday, 16 Sept. Sabean, Power in the Blood, 37-60. Assignments available.
Tuesday, 21 Sept. Hughes, Early Modern Germany, 61-113. Assignments available.
Thursday, 23 Sept. Sabean, Power in the Blood, 61-93. Questions available.
Tuesday, 28 Sept. Hughes, Early Modern Germany, 114-38, Sabean, Power in the Blood, 113-43.
Assignments now available.
Thursday, 30 Sept. Sabean, Power in the Blood, 144-73. Assignments available.
Tuesday, 5 Oct. Hughes, Early Modern Germany, 139-66. Assignments available.
Thursday, 7 Oct. Sabean, Power in the Blood, 174-213 . Assignments available.
Tuesday, 12 Oct. Hughes, Early Modern Germany, 167-89. Questions available.
Thursday, 14 Oct. Midterm Paper due
Tuesday, 19 Oct. Midterm Exam Details revised as of 5 October
Part 2: Germany and the Thirty Years War
Objective: to study the nature of the Thirty Years War and its effect on early modern German society.
Of interest: Museum of the Thirty Years War
Thursday, 21 Oct. Asch, Thirty Years War, 1-46. Assignments available.
Tuesday, 26 Oct. Questions to inform class discussion.
Myron P. Gutmann, "The Origins of the Thirty Years' War," Journal of Interdisciplinary History
18 (1988): 749-70;
N. M. Sutherland, "The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Structure of European Politics,"
English Historical Review 107 (1992): 587-625.
Thursday, 28 Oct. Work on Prospectus for final paper.
Tuesday, 2 Nov. Asch, Thirty Years War, 47-149. Questions available. Prospectus due.
Thursday, 4 Nov. Asch, Thirty Years War, 150-94. Assignments available.
Tuesday, 9 Nov. Assignments available.
*Hans Medick, "Historical Event and Contemporary Experience: Capture and Destruction of
Magdeburg in 1631," History Workshop Journal 52 (2001): 23-48;
*Marc R. Forster,
The Counter-Reformation in the Villages: Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), 144-78 also in *David Luebke, ed.,
The Counter-Reformation: The Essential Readings (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999), 165-97.
Thursday, 11 Nov. Remembrance Day. Class cancelled, but read
Geoffrey
Mortimer, "Individual Experience and
Perception of the Thirty Years War in Eyewitness Personal Accounts," German History 20 (2002): 141-60.
Questions on the reading assignment.
Tuesday, 16 Nov. Grimmelshausen, Adventures of a Simpleton, 1-50; *John Theibault,
"The Rhetoric of Death and Destruction in the Thirty Years War," Journal of Social History 27 (1993): 271-90. Assignments available.
Thursday, 18 Nov. Grimmelshausen, Adventures of a Simpleton, 51-116. Assignments available.
Tuesday, 23 Nov. Grimmelshausen, Adventures of a Simpleton, 117-75; Ronald G.
Asch, "'Wo der soldat hinkömbt, da ist alles sein': Military Violence and Atrocities in the Thirty Years War
Re-examined," German History 18 (2000): 291-309. Assignments available.
Thursday, 25 Nov. Grimmelshausen, Adventures of a Simpleton, 175-245. Assignments available.
Tuesday, 30 Nov. Consultation for research papers. Students who wish to discuss the outline or a draft of their paper may see me in AQ 6230 between
12:30 and 15:00.
Thursday, 2 Dec. Research paper due at 13:30 in AQ 6230
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