Fall 2026

Seminar in Early Modern Studies

ENGL 720 is a seminar providing an overview of scholarly debates and cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of early modernity.

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ENGL 720

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Provides an overview of recent scholarly debates in the study of early modernity. Considers two key challenges involved in the study of early modernity: first, what (and when) constitutes early modernity; second, the study of early modernity is necessarily cross-disciplinary. Beginning with the question of what constitutes the "early modern," approach the topic of early modernity from a variety of disciplinary and thematic lenses. The themes include periodization, early modern legal and state formation, women in early modernity, race and early modernity, religion in early modernity, and global early modernities.

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  • Periodization
  • Legal and state formation
  • Women in early modernity
  • Race in early modernity
  • Religion in early modernity
  • Global early modernities

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