Monday, January 8: Course Introduction
Wednesday, January 10: Europe After the Plague
Friday, January 12: An Era of Church Reform

Week 2: What Was Renaissance?
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapter 12: “The Italian Renaissance and Beyond—The Politics of Culture”

Monday, January 15: [No class today—MLK Holiday]
Wednesday, January 17: What Was Renaissance?
Friday, January 19: Social Contexts of Renaissance

Discussion: What's Love Got to Do With It? Gender, Power, and Agency in Renaissance Europe
Read and discuss “Ottavia and Her Music Teacher” [Canvas].

Week 3: Expanding Horizons
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapter 13: “The West and the World—The Significance of Global Encounters, 1450-1650”

Monday, January 22: Columbian Encounters [Guest Lecture by Professor Robert Haskett]
Wednesday, January 24: Revolutions in Science (I)
Friday, January 26: The New Monarchies

Discussion: Europeans Abroad
Read and discuss: Ludovico di Varthema, The Second Book Concerning India (1510) [Canvas].

Week 4: From Reform to Reformation
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapter 14, “The Reformations of Religion”; and Martin Luther, “To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation”(1520), in Michael Baylor, The German Reformation and the Peasants' War: A Brief History with Documents, 50-55.

Monday, January 29: The Evangelical Revolt
Wednesday, January 31: A “Revolution of the Common Man”?
Friday, February 2: The Media Revolution of the Fifteenth Century

Discussion: Reformation and Revolution: Documents of the Peasants' War
Read and discuss the introduction to Baylor, The German Reformation and the Peasants' War, 3-31, and the following documents:
11. Martin Luther, The Rights of a Christian Congregation (1523)
13. Articles of the Peasants of Stühlingen (Early 1525)
14. Sebastian Lotzer and Christoph Schappeler, The Twelve Articles of the Upper Swabian Peasants (March 1525)
21. Michael Gaismair, Territorial Constitution for the Tirol (February or March, 1526)
26. Martin Luther, Against the Murdering and Robbing Hordes of Peasants (May 1525)

Week 5: Religious War, Religious Peace
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapter 15: “The Age of Confessional Division”

Monday, February 5: The Rise of 'Confessions'
First Short Paper Due
Wednesday, February 7: The Resurgence of Catholicism
Friday, February 9: Mid-Term Examination

Week 6: The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapter 15: “The Age of Confessional Division”

Monday, February 12: The Challenge of Calvinism
Wednesday, February 14: Was there a General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century?
Friday, February 16: Military Revolution and the Thirty Years' War

Discussion: The War over Women
Read and discuss the following broadsides from the “War over Women”:
1. Joseph Swetnam, “The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women” (c. 1615) [Canvas]
2. Rachel Speght, “A Mouzell for Melastomus” (1617) [Canvas]

Week 7: Absolutism and State-Building
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapter 16: “Absolutism and State-Building, 1618-1715”; Michael Walzer, Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI, 8-27

Monday, February 19: The Theory and Practice of Absolutism
Wednesday, February 21: Constitutionalism and Revolution in England
Friday, February 23: Social Disciplining in the “Iron Century”

Discussion: Property, Rights, and Representation: The Putney Debates
Read and discuss the following documents of the English Revolution
1. “An Agreement of the People ” (1647) [Canvas]
2. “The Putney Debates ” (1647) [Canvas]

Week 8: Europe and the Wider World
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapters 17, “The Scientific Revolution,” and chapter 18: “The West and the World: Empire, Trade, and War, 1650-1815”; Walzer, Regicide and Revolution, 27-34

Monday, February 26: Revolutions in Science (II)
Wednesday, February 28: Sinews of Power--The Netherlands and Britain Compared
Friday, March 2: The Emergence of a Global Economy

Discussion: A Portrait of the Sun King
Read and discuss Eye-Witness Accounts of the Royal Court of Versailles [Canvas]

Week 9: Enlightenment and the Old Regime
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapter 19: “Eighteenth-Century Society and Culture”

Monday, March 5: What Was Enlightenment?
Wednesday, March 7: A Republic of Letters
Friday, March 9: From Reform to Revolution

Discussion: Enlightenment, Politics, and Gender
Read and discuss Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract [Excerpts] (1762) [Canvas]

Week 10: The End of the Old Regime
Textbook Reading: The West: Encounters and Transformations, chapter 20: “The Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815”

Monday, March 12: The Old Order Passes
Wednesday, March 14: Terror and Virtue
Friday, March 16: A View to the Future
Second Short Paper Due

Discussion: Regicide and Revolution
Read and discuss Walzer, Regicide and Revolution, pp. 35-68 and the following speeches delivered at the trial of Louis XVI:
1. Jean-Baptiste Maihle, 7 November 1792
2. Charles-François-Gabriel Morisson, 13 November 1792
3. Louis-Antoine-Léon Saint-Just, 13 November 1792
4. Maximilien Robespierre, 28 December 1792
5. Pierre-Victurnien Vergniaud, 31 December 1792

Final Examination: Monday, March 19, at 10:15 a.m.