Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

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

• Unit Code

  HIS2100

• Year

  2017

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

• Unit Coordinator

  Dr Simon Paul STEVENS

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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.

Core Reading(s)

• (2008). The European world 1500-1800: An introduction to early modern history. London: Routledge.
• (2007). Witchcraft in early modern Europe. Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.

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