History 521T - Directed Readings in Early Modern European History
Gayle K. Brunelle Homepage
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History 521T, Dr. Brunelle, FALL, 2007
Monday, 7-9:45 p.m.
Section # 14162
H 121
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Office: H 710E
Telephone: (714)278-3474 or (714)278-7045
Fax: (714)278-2101
E-Mail:
GBRUNELLE@fullerton.eduWeb Site:
http://faculty.fullerton.edu/gbrunelle2
Office Hours: M, 6-7 pm and W 2-4 pm in H 710E.
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Required Texts (in Little Professor Bookstore):
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Course Description:
History 521T is an intensive graduate level reading class designed to prepare students for their M.A. exams at CSUF and for entry into doctoral programs elsewhere, for those students intending to obtain the Ph.D. The reading list for this course is, for the most part, taken from the reading list for the MA exam. As such, the course demands reading during the semester approximately equivalent to one book per week, although some weeks students may read more and others less. This will be a seminar course focused on the discussion of assigned readings, some of which students will purchase, with the rest on reserve in the Reserve Book Room of the CSUF library. Because it is a seminar, the course will succeed only if students attend regularly and are prepared. The instructor will pay close attention, therefore, to attendance and participation in class discussion.
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History 521 T is a topical course. This semester we will focus on Early Modern Europe, and I will choose topics for each week that reflect the most important historiographical trends and debates in the field: for example, absolutism, peasant revolts, cultural history in print and film and women's history. For eleven of the fifteen weeks of the semester, the class will read and discuss one central work, and/or group of articles. For the ten weeks, works to be read will be listed on the syllabus. UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO NEW LIBRARY POLICIES, I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT THE RECOMMENED READING ON RESERVE. CHOOSE YOUR TOPICS AND BOOKS FOR YOUR COMPARATIVE PAPERS EARLY! STUDENTS MAY HAVE TO OBTAIN THROUGH INTERLIBRARY LOAN CERTAIN BOOKS NOT IN THE CSUF LIBRARY!
Each student in the class will read the equivalent of one book per week in preparation for class discussion. Each student will be expected to prepare one short book review of the required reading for that week (3-4 pages) per week for ten of the fifteen weeks of the semester (hence ten short book reviews in all). In addition, students will prepare a comparative book review essay on all the books in one of the sections of the book list for the MA exam (the list is broken up into sections focused on a theme or problem in early modern history). This bibliographic paper will be worth one third of the final grade, and will be due the day of the final exam. We will meet the day of the final to discuss preparing for the MA exam. Students will bring copies of their comparative review papers to distribute to their classmates in order to assist each other in preparing for the MA exam.
All short reviews will be due the week in which the book they are reviewing is discussed in class. I will subtract 10 points per day for each day which the papers are late. To succeed in this class, it is imperative, therefore, that students keep up with the reading. Otherwise, the class discussions upon which the class is based will fail, and students will not derive the benefit in preparing for their M.A. exams that they might otherwise obtain.
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Learning Goals:
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1. Students will get a strong start in preparing for their M.A. exams in the field of Early Modern European history by surveying significant literature in the field. The topics are thematic and designed to acquaint students with the primary historiographic problems and debates of Early Modern Europe, as well as theoretical approaches.
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2. Students will improve their critical reading and analysis skills through the book review exercises and class discussions. They will learn to efficiently extract from monographs and essays the main arguments of the authors.
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3. Students will hone their writing skills as well through repeated weekly writing exercises. Students will be expected to take note of instructor editorial comments and act upon them in subsequent papers to improve their writing.
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Requirements and Assessment:
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1. A comparative book review worth one third of the final grade.
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2. Ten short book review papers (3-4 pages), cumulatively worth two-thirds of the final grade. (I will average the review grades together to obtain one cumulative grade for this part of the assignment.)
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3. Class participation: Can be worth up to ten percent of the paper grades added to the final grade. I will not subtract points for lack of participation, but please note the notice regarding attendance below. Also, class participation means just that, active involvement in class discussions, prompt, regular completion of assignments, and demonstrated efforts to improve analysis and communication skills, especially writing.
Please Note: Students are expected to attend class regularly. Students may miss two classes without penalty. Beginning with the third absence, 5% per absence will be deducted from the final grade. Being present means being present for all or almost all of the class period.
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Assessment:
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In assigning grades in this class, I will be looking for three things: 1. Quality of class participation, as defined above (Requirement, 3); 2. Quality of analysis of the works you are reading – as defined by the guidelines for book reviews I will distribute on the first day of class; 3. Demonstrated efforts to improve on 1 and 2. For example, I will not grade the early papers of the class on writing, but I will look at grammar and style more closely as the semester progresses, and especially on the final comparative book review essay.
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Assignments:
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Week 1: Aug. 20 - Introduction. Basic Trends in Early Modern historiography.
Week 2: August 27 – The Renaissance and its economic and social roots. Required Reading: Worldly Goods.
Further Readings:
1. John Martin, Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City,(U. of California, 1993) [BR 878 .V4 M37 1993]; 2. Samuel K. COHN, jr., The Cult of Rembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy, (The Johns Hopkins UP, 1992) [HN 475 .C59 1992]; 3. Sharon Strocchia, Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence, (Johns Hopkins UP: 1992) [GT 3252 .F56 S76 1992]; 4. Randolph Starn, Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, (U. of California: 1982) [DG 530 .S7 1982]; 5. Nancy Bisaha, Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks, (University of Philadelphia Press, 2004), CB251 .B57 2004
Week 3: September 3 – Labor Day. No class!
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Week 4: Sept. 10 – The Reformation. Required Reading: MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History
Further Readings: 1. Peter Blickle, The Revolution of 1525: the German Peasants’ War from a New Perspective, (Johns Hopkins: 1981) [DD182 .B613]; Steven E. Ozment, The Reformation in the Cities: the appeal of Protestantism to sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland, (Yale UP: 1975) [ BR305.2 .O9]; 3. Thomas Brady, Communities, politics and Reformation in early modern Europe, (Brill: 1998) [BR307 .B73 1998 ]; 4. Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Zwickau in transition, 1500-1547 : the Reformation as an agent of change, (Ohio State University Press: 1987) [DD901.Z9 K37 1987 ]; 5.Mark U. Edwards, Printing, propaganda, and Martin Luther, (University of California Press, 1995), [BR325 .E343 1994].
Week 5: September 17 – The Reformation in France and the French Wars of Religion.
Required Reading: Mack P. Holt, The French Wars of Religion.
Further Readings: 1. Annette S. Finley-Croswhite, Henry IV and the towns : the pursuit of legitimacy in French urban society, 1589-1610, (Cambridge UP: 1999), [DC122.3 .F56 1999 ]; 2. Nancy Lyman Roelker, One king, one faith : the Parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, (University of California Press; 1996), [ DC33.3 .R64 1996]; 3. Ann W. Ramsey, Liturgy, politics, and salvation : the Catholic League in Paris and the nature of Catholic reform, 1540-1630 (University of Rochester Press, 1999), [DC120 .R35 1999 ]; 4. Barbara B. DIEFENDORF, Beneath the Cross. Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth Century Paris (Oxford UP, 1991) [DC 719.D54 1991]; 5. Megan C. Armstrong, The politics of piety : Franciscan preachers during the wars of religion, 1560-1600, (University of Rochester Press: 2004), [BX3631 .A76 2004]
Week 6: September 24: Catholic Renewal and Religious Discipline in Early Modern Europe.
Required Reading: R. Po-Chia Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770,
Further Reading: 1. Henry Kamen, The Phoenix and the Flame: Catalonia and the Counter Reformation, (Yale UP: 1993); 2. R. Po-Chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe 1550-1750, (Routledge: 1989); 3. Keith P. Luria,Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble, (U. of California, 1991) [BX1532.G7 L87 1991] 4. Regina Pörtner, The Counter Reformation in Central Europe: Styria 1580-1630; 5. Gregory Hanlon, Confession and Community in seventeenth-century France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine, (University of Pennsylvania Press: 1993) [BR847.A7 H36 1993 ]
Week 7: October 1 - The Crisis of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Centuries:
Reading: Geoffrey Parker and Lesley M. Smith, eds., The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, 2nd edition, Routledge, 1997, 0-415-12882-X
Further Readings:
1 Jan DeVries, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, (Cambridge: 2002), ISBN: 0521290503 [ HC240 .D48 1976 ] ; 2. Robert S. Duplessis, Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582, (1991) [DC 801.L687 D86]; 3.William Beik, Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: the Culture of Retribution, (Cambridge: 1997), [DC126 .B45 1997 ]; Yves Marie Bercé, History of Peasant Revolts: the Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France, (Cornell University Press; 1990), [ DC121.3 .B49213 1990] 5. John Lynch, The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change, 1598-1700, (Oxford/Blackwell, 1992) or J. H. Elliott, The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain, (Cambridge UP: 1984 – 1st published 1963). [ DP302.C66 E4 1984]
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Week8: October 8 – The Thirty Years War
Required Reading: C. V. Wedgewood, The Thirty Years War
Further Reading:
Week 9, October 15 - Popular Culture and Social Tensions in Early Modern Europe:
Reading: Robin Briggs, Communities of Belief: Cultural and Social Tensions in Early Modern France,
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Further Readings on Reserve:
1. David SABEAN, Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany [BR 857.W8 S22 1984]; 2. Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, (1983) [BL 880 .I8 G5613 1983]; 3. Kenry Kamen, Inquisition and Society in Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, (Indiana UP, 1985) [BX 1735 .K29 1985]; 4. Richard Kagen, Lucrecia's dreams: politics and prophecy in sixteenth-century Spain, (U. of California, 1990), [BF 1815 .L45 K34 1990]; 5. Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, Love, death, and money in the Pays d'Oc, (New York, 1982), [PC 3401 .F3 I83413 1982]
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Week 10: October 22 - Print and Oral Culture in Early Modern Europe:
Reading: Natalie Davis, Fiction in the Archives, Stanford University Press, 1987, 0804717990
Further Readings:
1. Robert M. Kingdon, Myths About the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres, 1572-1576 (1988) [DC 118 .K56 1988]. 2. Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, (1979) [Z124.E37]; 3. Roger Chartier, The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France, (1987) [Z124 .U8383 1989]; 4. Mary B. CAMPBELL, The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600, [G89.C3 1983]; 5. David Cressy, Literacy and the social order: reading and writing in Tudor and Stuart England, (Cambridge UP, 1980) [LC156 .67 C73]
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Week 11: October 29 – State Power, Absolutism, and the Culture of the Nobility:
Reading: William Beik, Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Aristocracy in Languedoc, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 0521367824
Further Reading:
1. Jonathan DEWALD, Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture, (1993) [DC 121.7 D48 1993]; 2. Kristen NEUSCHEL, World of Honor: Interpreting Noble Culture in Seventeenth Century France (1989) [DC 33.3 .N48 1989]; 3. Ellery SCHALK, From Valor to Pedigree: Ideas of Nobility in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, (1986) [HT653 .F7 S33 1986]; 4. James S. Amelang, Honored Citizens of Barcelona: Patrician Culture and Class Relations, 1490-1714, (Princeton UP, 1986) [Not in CSUF Library]; 5. Joseph Bergin, Cardinal Richelieu: power and the pursuit of wealth, (Yale UP) [DC 123.9.R5 B43 1985]
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Week 12: November 5 - Absolutism and Society Continued
Reading: Helen Nader, Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of the Towns, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 0801847311
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Readings on Reserve:
1. Daniel Hickey, The Coming of French Absolutism(University of Toronto Press, 1986) [HJ 2669 .D3 H5 1986]; 2. Jay Smith, The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789, (1996) [DC 33.4 S55 1996]; 3. Sarah HANLEY, The "Lit de Justice" of the Kings of France, (Princeton UP, 1983) [KJJ 1 H36]; 4. J. Russell MAJOR, Representative Government in Early Modern France, (Yale UP, 1980) [JN 2413 .M317]; 5. James Collins, Classes, Estates, and Order in Early Modern Brittany, (Cambridge UP, 1994) [DC 611 .B851 C59 1994]; _
Week 13: Veteran’s Day – Campus Closed – No classes! Please note that Fall Recess is November 19-25!
Week 14: November 26: Dissidents and Minorities.
Required Reading: Brian P. Levack, The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe, (Pearson/Longman: 2006), ISBN: 0-582-41901-8
Readings on Reserve
1. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Carnival in Romans (New York: G. Braziller, 1979)DC801.R75 L4713; 2. R. Po-chia Hsia, Trent 1475: stories of a ritual murder trial, (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992)BM585.2 .H75 1992; 3. Steven E. Ozment, The Bürgermeister’s Daughter: scandal in a sixteenth-century German town(New York: Harper Perennial, 1997) DD 901.S3652 O96 1996; 4. Renée Levine Melammed, Heretics or Daughters of Israel?: the crypto-Jewish women of Castile (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); 5. Robert Jűtte, Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe, (Cambridge UP, 1994).
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Week 15: December 3, Women in Early Modern Europe;
Required Reading: Merry WEISNER, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge UP, 1993
Further Reading:
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1. Lyndal Roper, The Holy Household. Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg, Oxford University Press; 2. Susan Dwyer Amussen, An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England (London, 1988) [HQ 615 .A49 1988]; 3. Mary Elizabeth PERRY, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville (Princeton UP, 1990) [HQ 1695 .S48 P47 1990] 4. Margaret W. Ferguson, et. al., Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, (U. of Chicago Press, 1986);[HQ 1075.5 .E85 R48 1986]; 5. Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed., Women and Work in preindustrial Europe, (Indiana UP, 1985) [HD6059.5.E85 W65 1985]
Week 16: December 10 – Economy and Family History in Early Modern Europe.
Required Reading: Martha C. Howell, The Marriage Exchange: Property, social place, and gender in the cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550
Readings :
Joanne Ferraro, Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (Cambridge UP, 1993) [JS 5925.B742 F47 1993] ; 2. Thomas Kuehn, Law, Family, and Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy, (U. of Chicago; 1991) [KKH9851 .K84 1991]; 3. Martha Howell, The Marriage Exchange: property, social place, and gender in the cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)KJC1162 .H69 1998 [at present, missing from CSUF Library] 4. Lawrence Stone, Family, Sex, and Marriage in England 1500-1800, (1977) [HQ 613 .S76]; 5. Christiane KLAPISCH-ZUBER, Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy(U. of Chicago Press, 1985). [HQ 1149 .I8 K57 1985
Please Note: Your bibliographic essays will be due during this final class, held during the final exam period.