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Literature of European History I Fall 2017 Wednesday, 2:00-4:00 Pm Literature of European History I Fall 2017 Wednesday, 2:00-4:00 p.m. David G. Troyansky Office Hours (GC 5104): Wednesday, 1:00-2:00, and by appointment [email protected] This course provides an introduction to the literature of European history from the Late Middle Ages through the eighteenth century. It explores different conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches to the period and examines an assortment of classic and recent works on a variety of topics: religion and the state; science, technology, and medicine; economy and society; gender and sexuality; and ideas and mentalities. The course prepares students for the end-of-semester comprehensive examination and for further study of early modern Europe. Requirements: Class participation: 25% Five (2-page) response papers (one title each—not the common reading): 25% Two (8-10-page) historiographical papers on major themes of the course (4-6 titles for each): 50% Written work will be shared with the class. Recommended Reading: Textbooks and Reference Works: Eugene Rice and Anthony Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559, 2nd edition (New York, 1994). Theodore K. Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe (New York, 1975). William Doyle, The Old European Order, 1660-1800, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1993). George Huppert, After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe, 2nd edition (Bloomington, IN, 1998). T.A. Brady, H.O. Oberman and J.D. Tracy, eds., Handbook of European History 1400-1600, 2 volumes (Leiden, 1995). Jonathan Dewald, ed., Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, 6 volumes (Farmington Hills, 2004). Bibliographies: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/ See especially Renaissance and Reformation. http://home.uchicago.edu/~icon/teach/guideorals.pdf “Guide to the Study of Early Modern European History for Students Preparing their Oral Examinations,” by Constantin Fasolt. Excellent through the 17th century. Doesn’t do much with the 18th. Schedule of Meetings and Readings 8/30 Introduction to the Course. 9/6 Modernity, Medievalism, and History that Stands Still Read AHR Roundtable: “Historians and the Question of ‘Modernity,’” American Historical Review, Vol. 116, no. 3 (June 2011): 631-751; Paul Freedman and Gabrielle Spiegel, “Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies,” American Historical Review, Vol. 103, no. 3 (June 1998): 677-704; Daniel Lord Smail and Andrew Shryock, “History and the ‘Pre,’” American Historical Review, Vol. 118, no. 3 (June 2013): 703- 737. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, “History That Stands Still,” in The Mind and Method of the Historian, trans. Siân Reynolds and Ben Reynolds (Chicago, 1981), 1–27. Recommended: “History and the Telescoping of Time: A Disciplinary Forum,” French Historical Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter 2011): 1-55. 9/13 Medieval Background Read Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley, 1987) and one of the following: John Arnold, Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 2005); Marc Bloch, Feudal Society (Chicago, 1961); Bloch, The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France (London, 1973); Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago, 1982); Bynum, Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Germany and Beyond (Philadelphia, 2007); Steven A. Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 (Cambridge, 2009); Christopher Given-Wilson, Chronicles: The Writing of History in Medieval England (London, 2007); Rodney Hilton, Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movement and the English Rising of 1381, 2nd edition (2003); Johan Huizinga, Waning [or Autumn] of the Middle Ages (Chicago, 1996); Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Thought (Princeton, 1957); Maurice Keen, Chivalry (New Haven, 1984); R.I. Moore, Formation of a Persecuting Society, rev. (New York, 2007); David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence (Princeton, 1996); Nirenberg, Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today (Chicago, 2014). 9/27 Renaissance Read AHR Forum: “The Persistence of the Renaissance,” American Historical Review Vol. 103, No. 1 (February 1998): 50-124 and one of the following: Peter Burke, The Renaissance Sense of the Past (London, 1969); Anthony Grafton, Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 (Cambridge, MA, 1994); Margaret King, Women of the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991); Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 1995); Robert J. Knecht, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610, 2nd edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002); John J. Martin, ed., The Renaissance World (New York, 2007); Lauro Martines, Fire in the City: Savanarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence (Oxford, 2007); Martines, Power and Imagination: City- States in Renaissance Italy (Baltimore, 1988); Garrett Mattingly, Renaissance Diplomacy (Boston, 1955); John M. Najemy, ed., Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 (Oxford, 2005); Charles Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (Cambridge, 1995); Charles Trinkaus and Heiko Oberman, eds., The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion (Leiden, 1974). 10/4 Reformations Read John Bossy, “The Counter-Reformation and the People of Catholic Europe,” Past and Present, 47 (May 1970): 51-70; Heinz Schilling, “Confessional Europe,” Handbook of European History 1400-1600, eds. T.A. Brady, H.O. Oberman, and J.D. Tracy, vol. 2 (Leiden, 1995), 641-70; Robert W. Scribner, “The Reformation, Popular Magic, and the ‘Disenchantment of the World,’” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 23 (1993): 475-94; and Gerald Strauss, “Success and Failure in the German Reformation,” Past and Present, 67 (1975): 30-63. Consult one of the following: John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400- 1700 (Oxford, 1985); Thomas Brady, German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650 (Cambridge, 2009); Euan Cameron, The European Reformation (Oxford, 1991); Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 1999); Sarah Covington, The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England (Notre Dame, 2003); Eamon Duffy, Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, 2nd edition (New Haven, 2005); Lucien Febvre, The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais (Cambridge, 1985); Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (London, 1972); Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe 1550-1750 (London, 1989); Hsia, ed., A Companion to the Reformation World (Malden, MA and Oxford, 2006); Hsia, ed., The German People and the Reformation (Ithaca, 1988); Craig Koslofsky, The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, 1450-1700 (New York, 2000); Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation (New York, 2004); John O’Malley, Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge, MA, 2000); Steven Ozment, ed., The Reformation in Medieval Perspective (Chicago, 1971); Andrew Pettegree, ed., The Early Reformation in Europe (Cambridge, 1992); Robert W. Scribner, Popular Culture and Popular Movement in Reformation Germany (London, 1987); Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1994); Scribner, Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany (London, 1987) Gerald Strauss, Luther’s House of Learning: Indoctrination of the Young in the German Reformation (Baltimore, 1978); Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England (Oxford, 1997); Hugh R. Trevor-Roper, “Religion, the Reformation and Social Change,” in The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and Other Essays (New York, 1969), pp. 1-45; Lee Palmer Wandel, Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel (Cambridge, 1995). 10/11 The State Read Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1996) and one of the following: Perry Anderson, Lineages of the Absolutist State (London, 1974); Michael Braddick, State Formation in Early Modern England, 1550-1700 (Cambridge, 2000); John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783 (Cambridge, MA, 1988); Paul B. Cheney, Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy (Cambridge, MA, 2010); James B. Collins, The State in Early Modern France (Cambridge, 1995); Jonathan Dewald, The European Nobility, 1400-1800 (Cambridge, 1996); William Doyle, Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford, 1997); Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern England (Basingstoke, 2000); Mack Holt, The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 2005); J. Russell Major, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates (Baltimore, 1994); Garrett Mattingly, Renaissance Diplomacy (Boston, 1955); Roland Mousnier, The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy, 1589-1789: Society and the State, 2 vols. (Chicago, 1979-84); J.H. Parry, The Spanish Seaborne Empire (Berkeley,
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