Guide to the Study of Early Modern European History For Students ...

CONTENTS
I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 4
II. General Points ............................................................................................................................. 4
III. Scope of the Exam .................................................................................................................... 6
IV. Statement of Intent .................................................................................................................... 8
V. How to Study for the Exam: Redundancy, Notes, and Meetings ........................................ 9
VI. Paradigmatic Books ................................................................................................................... 13
VII. Five Kinds of Knowledge ....................................................................................................... 16
1. General Knowledge .............................................................................................................. 16
2. Special Knowledge ................................................................................................................ 21
2.1 Medieval Background .................................................................................................. 22
2.2 Medieval Legal and Political Thought ....................................................................... 24
2.3 Renaissance and Humanism ....................................................................................... 27
2.4 Protestant Reformation ............................................................................................... 28
2.5 Radical Reformation .................................................................................................... 31
2.6 Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation ................................................... 32
2.7 Confessionalization ...................................................................................................... 34
2.8 Germany and the Holy Roman Empire .................................................................... 35
2.9 Population and Historical Geography ....................................................................... 36
2.10 Economy ..................................................................................................................... 37
2.11 Society .......................................................................................................................... 38
2.12 Marriage, Sex, Love, and Family .............................................................................. 40
2.13 Women and Gender .................................................................................................. 41
2.14 Cities and Urban Life ................................................................................................. 41
2.15 Popular Culture, Deviancy, and Repression .......................................................... 42
2.16 European Expansion ................................................................................................. 44
2.17 Ottoman Empire ........................................................................................................ 45
2.18 Technology and Printing ........................................................................................... 45
2.19 War and Diplomacy ................................................................................................... 46
2.20 Law, Legal Thought, and the State .......................................................................... 47
2.21 Political Thought ........................................................................................................ 48
2.22 Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Ideas ................................................ 51
2.23 Science and Medicine ................................................................................................. 52
3. Primary Sources ..................................................................................................................... 53
3.1 Medieval ......................................................................................................................... 53
3.2 Renaissance and Humanism ....................................................................................... 55
3.3 Reformation .................................................................................................................. 55
3.4 From Religious War to Sovereignty .......................................................................... 56
4. Historiography and Theory of History .............................................................................. 57
4.1 Theory and Practice of History .................................................................................. 57
4.2 History of Historical Writing ...................................................................................... 59
4.3 Contemporary Developments .................................................................................... 61
4.4 Historiography of the Middle Ages ........................................................................... 62
4.5 Historiography of Renaissance and Humanism ...................................................... 63
4.6 Historiography of the Reformation ........................................................................... 64
5. Tools of Research .................................................................................................................. 65
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