Seminar in Early Modern Studies
Seminar providing an overview of recent scholarly debates in early modernity, addressing periodization and cross-disciplinary approaches.
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What you’ll be able to do
Communicate effectively, in both speech and writing, concepts, theories, and arguments related to the study of early modernity.
Develop a familiarity with methods and approaches to the study of early modernity from a variety of disciplines.
Develop the capacity to critique and analyze, in both speech and writing, studies of early modernity from a variety of disciplines.
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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, race, religion, and global early modernities.
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- Familiarity with methods and approaches to the study of early modernity from a variety of disciplines.
- Critique and analyze studies of early modernity from a variety of disciplines in speech and writing.
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