Week
Dates
Assigned Reading
[Interested students, and people who are writing term papers, may also wish to look at some additional Optional reading]
Geoffrey Parker, European Society and the Economy
(this is a chapter from Parker’s excellent book Europe in Crisis 1598-1648, Blackwell 2001, which is well worth buying and is available in paperback)
Scott A. Mandia, The Little Ice Age in Europe (very short)
Wolfgang Behringer, Climatic Change and Witch-Hunting: the Impact of the Little Ice Age on Mentalities
Emerson Thomas McMullen, “The origin of Descartes’ mechanical philosophy” (short)
E. Marty and D. F. Wright, Protestantism (very short)
An article on The Reformation (very short)
A very short, important document: The Peace of Augsburg of 1555
Mark. A. Noll, a brief description of Presbyterianism, Presbyterian
Piotr Wilczek, “Catholics and Heretics: some aspects of religious debates in the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"
John Bossy, The Counter-Reformation and the People of Catholic Europe
The Thirty Years' War, J. V. Polišenský
Gustavus Adolphus(1630-2), A. W. Ward
The Mantuan Succession, 1627-31: A Sovereignty Dispute in Early Modern Europe", David Parrott
A Conflict of Empires: Spain and the Netherlands 1618-1648" J. I. Israel
A very short document on the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631
Stanley G. Payne, The Seventeenth-Century Decline
(a good introduction by an eminent emeritus professor of this university.)
The Decline of Spain: A Historical Myth?, Henry Kamen
The Decline of Spain: A Historical Myth?, by J. I. Israel
Richelieu
(chapter 4 of the Cambridge Modern History, vol. 4)
Richelieu's Army: a book review (very short)
and a response (also very short)
Brief extracts from Richelieu’s Political Testament
[Exam 2/27]
The Dutch Republic
[Chapter 19 of vol. 3 of The Cambridge Modern History]
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
[Chapter
24 of vol. 4 of The Cambridge Modern History]
"Dutch Diplomacy and the Baltic Grain Trade, 1600-1660," Francis J. Bowman
To the Attentive, Nonpartisan Reader: The Appeal to History and National Identity in the Religious Disputes of the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands, Charles H. Parker
Monarchies, Wars, and Estates in England, France, and Spain, c. 1580 - c. 1640, Conrad S. R. Russell
English and European Political Ideas in the Early Seventeenth Century: Revisionism and the Case of Absolutism, Johann P. Sommerville
King James VI & I on The Divine Right of Kings (short)
The Protestation of 1621 (very short)
The Petition of Right (1628) (very short)
The Problem of Unity in the Polish-Lithuanian State Oswald P. Backus III
"Who Was Tsar Dmitrii?", Chester Dunning
Russian Endeavors for the Polish Crown in the Seventeenth Century, Zbigniew Wojcik
The Levellers, Agreement of the People (very short)
Women's Petition (very short)
Women's Speaking (very short)
The General Crisis of the 17th Century, H. R. Trevor-Roper
Discussion of H. R. Trevor-Roper: The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, Roland Mousnier; J. H. Elliott; Lawrence Stone; H. R. Trevor-Roper; E. H. Kossmann; E. J. Hobsbawm; J. H. Hexter.
Cardinal Mazarin and the Great Nobility during the Fronde, Richard Bonney
The Government of Louis XIV (1661-1715)
[Chapter 1 of volume 5 of The Cambridge Modern History]
The Place of Jansenism in French History , Wallace K. Ferguson
The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685 (very short)
Brief extracts from Bossuet’s Political Treatise
The foreign policy of Louis XIV, 1661-97
[chapter 2 of vol. 5 of The Cambridge Modern History]
"Louis XIV and William III, 1689-1697", Mark A. Thomson
SPRING BREAK: March 31 - April 8
The Great Elector and the Foundation of the Hohenzollern Despotism, by F. L. Carsten
Peter the Great and his pupils, 1689-1725, R. Nisbet Bain
[Chapter 17 of volume 5 of The Cambridge Modern History]
[Exam 4/19]
The Revolution and the Revolution Settlement in Great Britain, H. W. V. Temperley
[Chapter 10 of volume 5 of The Cambridge Modern History]
The English Bill of Rights, 1689 (short)
The Toleration Act, 1689 (short)
The 'Military Revolution,' 1560-1660--a Myth?, Geoffrey Parker
Tactical Evolution in the French Army, 1560-1660, John A. Lynn
Short extracts from Hobbes' Leviathan
Short extracts from Locke's Two Treatises
Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615,
The Crime of Galileo
[Very brief. The indictment and abjuration of Galileo, 1633.]
An essay on the Galileo Affair by Paul Newall is in five reasonably short installments:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Isaac Newton: Optics
(brief extracts.)
I.Bernard Cohen, "Newton in the Light of Recent Scholarship"
(discusses Newton’s interests in such things as prophecy and alchemy.)
Women: Witnesses and Witches , Clive Holmes
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