School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Witches, Regicides and Heretics: 14th to 17th Century Europe
  • Unit Code

    HIS2100
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

Europe in the period from the Renaissance to the Early Modern Era is seemingly contradictory. The birth of modern science was occurring but Europe was wracked by vicious religious conflict and the witch craze. Emperors and Kings vied for control in the Mediterranean, Italy and Germany while popes, bishops and Protestants fought for souls in the Reformation and Counter Reformation. Important political developments still reverberate with us: parliament has a centrality to Australian political life because of the execution of King Charles I in 1649 and the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. And yet alongside strife there was beauty: Renaissance Italian painting and poetry, the works of Shakespeare, musical developments and the Dutch Golden Age.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces HIS3100

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past.
  2. Apply analytical skills to understanding historical processes.
  3. Construct an evidence-based argument in oral, visual and written form.
  4. Develop and understanding of historical research according to the methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline.
  5. Explain important intellectual, cultural and political change from the late 1300s to the 1600s.

Unit Content

  1. Late Medieval Europe: The Black Death.
  2. The Habsburg Empire and the Ottomans.
  3. Absolutism and the Emergence of the Modern State: Louis XIV.
  4. The Renaissance.
  5. The Reformation.
  6. Witch Hunts and Persecutions: context, sources, trials.
  7. Crime in Early Modern Europe.
  8. The Tudors.
  9. The Dutch Revolt and Golden Age.
  10. Regicide in Stuart England.
  11. Thirty Years War 1618-1648.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Tutorials. Online learning environment.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPresentation and Report40%
EssayResearch Essay60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioOnline participation and unit reflection40%
EssayResearch Essay60%

Text References

  • ^ Wiesner, M. E. (Ed.). (2007). Witchcraft in early modern Europe. Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.
  • ^ Kumin. B. (Ed.). (2009). The European world 1500-1800: An introduction to early modern history. London, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Henry, J. (2002). The scientific revolution and the origins of modern science. New York, NY: St Martins Press.
  • Wheatcroft, A. (2009). The enemy at the gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe. London, United Kingdom: Pimlico. 
  • Goffman, D. (2002). The Ottoman Empire and early modern Europe. Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Oldridge, D. (2008). The witchcraft reader. London, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Wallace, P. G. (2004). The long European Reformation: Religion, political conflict and the search for conformity, 1350-1750. Basingstoke, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Braddick, M. (2008). God's fury, England's fire: A new history of the English civil wars. London, United Kingdom: Penguin. 
  • Brown, S. (2007). Women, gender and radical religion in early modern Europe. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill.
  • Israel, J. (1998). The Dutch Republic: Its rise, greatness and fall 1477-1806. Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon Press.
  • Duke, A. (2003). Reformation and revolt in the Low Countries. London, United Kingdom: Hambleton and London.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Witches, Regicides and Heretics: 14th to 17th Century Europe
  • Unit Code

    HIS2100
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

Europe in the period from the Renaissance to the Early Modern Era is seemingly contradictory. The birth of modern science was occurring but Europe was wracked by vicious religious conflict and the witch craze. Emperors and Kings vied for control in the Mediterranean, Italy and Germany while popes, bishops and Protestants fought for souls in the Reformation and Counter Reformation. Important political developments still reverberate with us: parliament has a centrality to Australian political life because of the execution of King Charles I in 1649 and the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. And yet alongside strife there was beauty: Renaissance Italian painting and poetry, the works of Shakespeare, musical developments and the Dutch Golden Age.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces HIS3100

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse historical evidence, scholarship and changing representations of the past.
  2. Apply analytical skills to understanding historical processes.
  3. Construct an evidence-based argument in oral, visual and written form.
  4. Develop and understanding of historical research according to the methodological and ethical conventions of the discipline.
  5. Explain important intellectual, cultural and political change from the late 1300s to the 1600s.

Unit Content

  1. Late Medieval Europe: The Black Death.
  2. The Habsburg Empire and the Ottomans.
  3. Absolutism and the Emergence of the Modern State: Louis XIV.
  4. The Renaissance.
  5. The Reformation.
  6. Witch Hunts and Persecutions: context, sources, trials.
  7. Crime in Early Modern Europe.
  8. The Tudors.
  9. The Dutch Revolt and Golden Age.
  10. Regicide in Stuart England.
  11. Thirty Years War 1618-1648.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Tutorials. Online learning environment.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPresentation and Report40%
EssayResearch Essay60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioOnline participation and unit reflection40%
EssayResearch Essay60%

Text References

  • ^ Wiesner, M. E. (Ed.). (2007). Witchcraft in early modern Europe. Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.
  • ^ Kumin. B. (Ed.). (2009). The European world 1500-1800: An introduction to early modern history. London, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Henry, J. (2002). The scientific revolution and the origins of modern science. New York, NY: St Martins Press.
  • Wheatcroft, A. (2009). The enemy at the gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe. London, United Kingdom: Pimlico. 
  • Goffman, D. (2002). The Ottoman Empire and early modern Europe. Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Oldridge, D. (2008). The witchcraft reader. London, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Wallace, P. G. (2004). The long European Reformation: Religion, political conflict and the search for conformity, 1350-1750. Basingstoke, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Braddick, M. (2008). God's fury, England's fire: A new history of the English civil wars. London, United Kingdom: Penguin. 
  • Brown, S. (2007). Women, gender and radical religion in early modern Europe. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill.
  • Israel, J. (1998). The Dutch Republic: Its rise, greatness and fall 1477-1806. Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon Press.
  • Duke, A. (2003). Reformation and revolt in the Low Countries. London, United Kingdom: Hambleton and London.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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