Early Modern European History Select topics in early modern European history.
Topics vary from quarter to quarter.
This course explores topics in early modern cultural history while also preparing students for graduate exams in that field. It is conducted as a reading seminar. Participants meet weekly to discuss a range of reading assignments and to investigate broader issues suggested by those readings. Oral presentations by seminar members delve into relevant background issues. A research paper due at the end of the quarter is meant to analyze, at greater length, some of the issues and texts considered over the quarter.