Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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• Unit Title

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

• Unit Code

  HIS3100

• Year

  2015

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

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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.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Apply analytical skills to understanding historical processes.
2. Define or dispute what historians mean by the terms Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern.
3. Explain important intellectual, cultural and political change from the late 1300s to the 1600s.

Unit Content

1. Absolutism and the Emergence of the Modern State: Louis XIV.
2. Dutch Life in the Golden Age.
3. England: 1620s to 1688.
4. Late Medieval Europe: The Plague to the Renaissance.
5. Murmurings of Greatness: Russia in the Age of Peter the Great.
6. Religious Wars in Europe: France, Germany and England.
7. Renaissance Art and Literature.
8. Renaissance Thinking and Politics.
9. The Dutch Revolt.
10. The Habsburg Empire and the Ottomans.
11. The Witch Craze in Europe.
12. The beginnings of the Reformation.
13. The spread of the Reformation.

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.

* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency

Text References

• Allmand, C. (1988). The Hundred Years War: England and France at war, ca 1300-1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Asch, R.G. (1997). The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe. New York: St Martin's Press.
• Duke, A. (2003). Reformation and revolt in the Low Countries. London: Hambleton and London.
• Hale, J. (1994). The civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. London: Fontana Press.
• Prak, M. (2005). The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Herlihy, D. (1997). The Black Death and the transformation of the West . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
• Hillerbrand, H.J. (Ed.). (1996). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Israel, J. (1998). The Dutch Republic: Its rise, greatness and fall 1477-1806. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Levi, A. (2002). Renaissance and Reformation: The intellectual genesis. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Henry, J. (2002). The scientific revolution and the origins of modern science. New York: St Martins Press.

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