Write a paper discussing Early Modern World.A five page (1600 words) paper on a topic chosen by you from the concepts covered in the first four chapters of Rice and Grafton’s The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559, pp 1-145. It is expected that you will go to additional sources beyond the textbook to develop your topic. Wikipedia can be a good place to start to find good sources, but know that Wikipedia itself is not considered an appropriate source. Always go to and use the sources cited in Wikipedia. Be sure to include a bibliography of the sources you use.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this interdisciplinary course, we will trace the early modern period (1450 – 1800) in Europe, where a variety of factors — printing and the access to books, geographic exploration and colonization, the scientific revolution, Reformation theology, Renaissance Humanism, and the Enlightenment — led Europeans to transform and redefine themselves, their culture, their society, their politics, and their thinking about religion. We will explore this process of “modern” redefinition of human values and study how and reflect upon the changes in intellectual and cultural life it occasioned. We will read from the works of major figures from this period, including Machiavelli, Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Copernicus, Galileo, Shakespeare, Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau.
