European Modernity I


Teaching Staff: Kentrotis Yorghos
Course Code: YK-7100
Gram-Web Code: ΝΕΠ01
Course Category: Specific Background
Course Type: Compulsory
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 7th
ECTS: 2
Total Hours: 2
Erasmus: Available (in English)
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Short Description:

This is a course on the period between 1450 and 1600 i.e. on the period of the transition from Christiandom to “Europe”. The main questions studied are the humanistic movement, the Protestant and the Catholic Reformation, the religious wars, the evolucion of the political institutions, the organization of the economy and the overseas european installations.

Christiandom lost its relevance after Luther and the first heresy which managed to become a Church. Following that, the Roman Church ceased to play a universal role which was the fist foundation of the Christiandom. In the same time, following the failure of the Charles V to restore the Empire, its second foundation was also lost. Another factor that led to the substitution of “Europe” to Christiandom was the European expansion overseas: the conquered people help the Europeans to realize that despite their religious differences, they were sharing the same “civilization”.

Syllabus:

 

Week

Title

1

Introduction: from Christiandom to “Europe”

2

The Italin Humanism

3

The North European Humanism

4

The Protestant Reformation: Luther's doctrines

5

The spread of the Reformation

6

The Catholic Reformation

7

The Habsburgs-Valois conflict

8

Religious Wars: Germany and Low Countries

9

Religious Wars: France

10

Overseas travels: the European installations in the Indian ocean area

11

Overseas travels: the European installation in the Americas

12

Cannibals: Where are they?

13

Conclusions

 

 

Suggested Bibliography:

 

Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Πρώιμη Νεώτερη Ευρώπη 1450-1789, ελλ. μετ. Δ. Καλογιάννης, Αθήνα 2008

Mark Greengrass, Christendom Destroyed. Europe 1517-1648, London 2014

 


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