Objectives and competences
Student is able to analyze progress and main crisis situations in western, north, middle, east and southeast Europe of that time. In connection with the political review he is also capable to evaluate the exploitation of religious contrasts for state and personal intentions, the basic conflict between France and the Holy Roman Empire and the false European politics towards Turks as a consequence of bad discrepancies in »Christian« Europe.
He develops ability to understand the origin and the spreading of Lutherism and Calvinism together with the growing role of the middle classes, which in Holland restorates the first middle class country. Achievements in science and art, inventions and the rise of production round up the total view over the period and introduce it as a birth of modern European civilization.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Subject is composed of two parts:
1. Western and Northern Europe: roots of French – Imperial differences and relation king – emperor. The golden age of Spain, Portugal, decline of power. England and Scotland in the time of Henry VIII and the period until the Glorious revolution. Holy Roman Empire and the role of the Hapsburgs' dynasty and its constant internal conflicts. Religious streams: Lutheranism, Calvinism. Holy League, Hugenot wars, Henry of Navarra, Louis XIV and French superiority, the beginnings of internal crisis. The Thirty Years' War, Holland and Ireland in the 17th century. Baltic – fortification of Lutheranism, rise of Sweden and its development until the battle of Poltava. Italy: Milan, Venice, papacy. European east: Poland at the summit of power and her decline, gradual rise of Russian influence.
2. Spiritual and cultural image and economy: Beginnings of rational sciences. Intelectual influences in the16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Art giants from Italy to Scandinavia. Production – new inventions, the beginnings of industrialization; agricultural improvements, new cultures. World's colonial and economic exchange. The status of upper and lower classes in Western Europe. First emigrants.
Learning and teaching methods
Explanation, work with sources, seminar, individual study, seminar assignment, presentation of seminar assignment, discussion. The information and communications technology is used for educational purposes in the teaching and learning process.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Student is able to analyze the historical development in the Early Modern Europe.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Student acquires capabilities of comparative treatment of individual ethnical elements and countries or historical processes at all. He gains the ability to critically assess all forms of messages that have the value of historical sources and to distinguish between inducements, motives and consequences considering the interdependence of different occurences, continuity and discrepancies in the historical development. He is qualified for independent historical research.
Readings
1. Svetovna zgodovina, Ljubljana,1976.
2. Unescova Zgodovina človeštva, Ljubljana 1982-1986, določena poglavja v več zvezkih.
3. The Times atlas svetovne zgodovine, druga izdaja, Ljubljana 1993.
4. Oxfordova enciklopedija zgodovine 1. Od pradavnine do 19. stoletja, Ljubljana 1993.
5. Maurice Keen, Srednjeveška Evropa, Ljubljana 1993.
6. P. Burke, Evropska renesansa, Ljubljana 2004.
7. D. MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe's house divided 1490-1700, London 2003.
8. T. C. W. Blanning, The culture of power and the power of culture: old regime Europe 1660-1789, Oxford 2003.
Prerequisits
Preknowledge from subject History of Europe in the Middle Ages
Conditions for prerequisits:
Completed seminar assignment is a prerequisit for
accession to the written examination.
