Learning outcomes
The course will concern the basic contents and competences, related to anthropological, social, economic, religious, cultural side, to know the peculiarities of early modern West and their trend to contemporaneity. It focuses the topic of periodization and, analysing the main types of sources for early modern history, provides the basis to start students to historical research.
In particular, attention will be paid to the development of some of the major European countries (France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, England) in the formation of their identity and in their relations with non-European civilizations
Course contents
The program will focus on the formation of the early modern state structures in the major countries of Western Europe and in their relations with the rest of the world (especially the great colonial powers). They will try to outline the highlights of economic development, political and social development of the European continent from the discovery of America until the Congress of Vienna (1815)
Reccomended or required readings
Recommended bibliography for the scholars
For the assiduously participants of the course the lecture of one this texts
Carlo Capra, Storia Moderna (1492-1848), Le Monnier, Firenze, sino al Congresso di Vienna
Renata Ago e Vittorio Vidotto, Storia Moderna, Editori Laterza, Roma - Bari
And the lecture of
Paolo Prodi, Introduzione allo studio della Storia Moderna, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1999
For the not participants, it’s obligatory the lecture of one of this books
J.H. Elliott, La Spagna imperiale 1496-1714, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1982
E. Le Roy Ladurie, Lo Stato del Re. La Francia dal 1460 al 1610, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1999
E. Le Roy Ladurie, L'Ancien Régime, 2 voll., Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000
C. Russell. Alle origini dell'Inghilterra moderna. La crisi dei Parlamenti, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1988
H. Schilling, Ascesa e crisi. La Germania dal 1517 al 1648, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1997
H. Schilling, Corti e alleanze. La Germania dal 1648 al 1763, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1999
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