HIST 126 Europe from the Neolithic to the 1600s Fall 2014-2015 Instructor Room No. Office Hours Email Telephone Secretary/TA TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) Waqar Zaidi New HSS Wing TBA Waqar.zaidi@lums.edu.pk COURSE DESCRIPTION This course surveys the history of Europe from the Neolithic era to the 1600s. It provides students with a framework for understanding the broad outlines of European history up to the early modern era. It also provides a foundation for the understanding of Europe, and indeed the world as a whole, in the modern era. The course introduces students to different aspects of European history, and different types of histories also. Not only political, but also social, cultural, intellectual, environmental and technological histories are explored through core secondary texts and primary sources. The course puts Europeans into a pan-european context by introducing students to European peoples interactions and encounters with each other - through travel, trade, imperialism, and other forms of cultural exchange. The approach is not only comparative but thoroughly transnational and cross-cultural. The course will help students understand European history through questions such as: Why did the Roman Empire collapse?
How did Christianity spread throughout Europe? Why did so many Europeans respond enthusiastically to the call for a Holy Crusade? What was feudalism, and why did it develop in Europe? What effects did the Black Death have on European society and culture? Why was there a Scientific Revolution in early modern Europe? COURSE OBJECTIVES To provide students with an introduction to Europe and Europeans between the Neolithic era and the early modern period (1600s). LEARNING OUTCOMES The course is designed to, first, develop historical skills and, second, impart content knowledge relating to Europe Content Knowledge Through this course, students will develop: A framework for understanding Europeans and European history from the Neolithic era to the early modern period (1600s); A foundation for the further study of European and world history through to the modern era; Familiarisation with European geography and environment; An appreciation of the connections between Europeans and between Europeans and the rest of the world; A broader cultural literacy through exposure to important aspects of European events, history, society, culture and self-identity. Historical Skills This course will introduce students to: The reading, interpretation, and evaluation of primary and secondary sources; Developing and framing historical questions and arguments; Integrating primary and secondary sources, historical data, and historical arguments into narratives that interpret, evaluate, and impart meaning upon past events; Attributing source materials properly in your historical writing; Conforming to the standards and conventions of written expression; Collaborating with peers in the analysis and construction of historical narratives; and Presenting historical narratives through oral expression and powerpoint presentations. GRADING BREAKUP AND POLICY Class Participation and Attendance 10% Mid Term Exam 20% Presentation 20% Written Assignment 20% Final Exam 30% The lectures and readings complement the other; students will be required to demonstrate familiarity with both during the exams and the written assignments. The dates for the Midterm Exam and the Written Assignment shall
be announced in advance. Presentation timings will also be arranged in class in advance. Please note that these dates are final regardless of your extracurricular contributions to LUMS. Requests for grade revisions will NOT be tolerated. The Instructor s grading is final. If this is unacceptable, do not take this course. ACADEMIC HONESTY The principles of truth and honesty are recognized as fundamental to a community of teachers and students. This means that all academic work will be done by the student to whom it is assigned without unauthorized aid of any kind. Plagiarism, cheating and other forms of academic dishonesty are prohibited. Any instances of academic dishonesty in this course (intentional or unintentional) will be dealt with swiftly and severely. Potential penalties include receiving a failing grade on the assignment in question or in the course overall. For further information, students should make themselves familiar with the relevant section of the LUMS student handbook. TEXTBOOK(S)/SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS Core Text: Stephen Hause and William Maltby, Western Civilization: A History of European Society 2 nd edition (Thomson Wordsworth, 2004). Other Required Reading: Jeremy Boulton, London 1540 1700, in Peter Clark (ed.), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain volume II 1540 1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 315 346. Jean Gimpel, The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution in the Middle Ages (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976). Owen Gingerich and James MacLachlan, Nicolaus Copernicus: Making the Earth a Planet (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). George Holmes (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). Christopher Kelly, The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). Angus Mackay and David Ditchburn (eds.), Atlas of Medieval Europe (London: Routledge, 1997). James MacLachan, Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Richard Miles, Carthage Must be Destroyed (New York: Penguin, 2011). John H. Mundy, Europe in the High Middle Ages 1150-1309 2 nd edition (New York: Longman, 1991). P.H. Sawyer, Kings And Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe AD 700 1100 (London: Routledge, 1982). G.E. Seel, The English Wars and Republic, 1637-1660 (London: Routledge, 1999). David Shotter, The Fall of the Roman Republic (London: Routledge, 1994). Christopher Tyerman, Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Chris Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Philip Ziegler, The Black Death (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982). COURSE OVERVIEW This is fast moving course which will cover a large number of concepts, events, facts and figures in a short period of time. So it is important for students to attend all lectures, and to complete assigned readings before the relevant lecture. Students must also take lecture notes during every lecture. All readings are compulsory. The exams will be based both on the lectures and on the readings. Students must work from the beginning of the course,
otherwise they will fall behind and risk failing the course. The following Overview is tentative and is subject to change without prior notice: Lectur e Description Readings 1 Introduction; The Paleolithic Era and the Neolithic Revolution Hause and Maltby, pp. 1-6 Part 1: Ancient Europe 2 3 to 4 5 6 7 The Rise of Ancient Greece The Minoan Civilization; The Mycenaean Greeks; The Development of the Greek Polis: Athens and Sparta; The Persian Wars; and The Peloponnesian Wars. Greek Culture and its Hellenistic Diffusion Art and Literature: Homer, Aeschylus, Thucydides; Greek Thinkers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle; The Macedonian Conquests: Philip II, Alexander the Great; and Hellenistic Science, Philosophy, Religion. The Rise of the Roman Republic The Etruscans; Early Rome; and Hannibal and the Punic Wars. The Roman Empire: Political Developments Julius Caesar and the Fall of the Roman Republic; Anthony and Cleopatra; and Augustus and the Early Emperors. Hause and Maltby, chapter 2 Hause and Maltby, chapter 3. Hause and Maltby, chapter 4. Miles, prologue. Hause and Maltby, pp. 80-90. Shotter, pp. 7 15. The Economy and Society of the Roman Empire Hause and Maltby, pp. 90-99. Kelly, pp. 4 31. 8 The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity The Spread of Christianity and the persecution of Christians; Constantine and the later Roman Emperors; Barbarian Invasions; and Division of Empire. Part 2: Europe After Rome: The Early Middle Ages 9 The Byzantine Empire Justinian; and Society and Culture. 10 Europe after Rome Hause and Maltby, chapter 6. Wickham, pp. 10 14. Holmes, pp. 1 7. Hause and Maltby, pp. 119 124. Wickham, pp. 29 32. Hause and Maltby, pp. 128 136. Wickham, pp. 827 831.
11 Frankish Society; and The Empire of Charlemagne. The Great Raids of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries The Magyars; and The Vikings: Kings and Pirates. Part 3: The High Middle Ages 12 13 14 15 16 to 17 The Emergence of Feudalism The Knight; Lordship and Vassalage; Subinfeudation and the Heritability of Fiefs; and Feudal Monarchies: the Normans. Medieval Religion and Thought New Monastic Orders; Cathedrals; and The Foundation of the Universities. The Crusades Repression in Europe; and Crusades in the Holy Land. Economic Development in the High Middle Ages Technology; Agricultural Revolution; Commercial Revolution; and Urbanisation. Life in the Middle Ages The Medieval Diet; Disease and Demography; and The Upper Classes and the Peasants. Part 4: The Late Middle Ages 18 Famine, Economic Decline, and the Black Death 19 20 War in the Long Fourteenth Century Mongols; Teutonic Knights; The Hundred Years War; and The Collapse of Dynasties. The Consolidation of the State Taxation; The Iberian Kingdoms and the Defeat of Muslim Spain; The Tudors; and The Holy Roman Empire. Hause and Maltby, pp. 137-140. Sawyer, pp. 1 7, 144 147. Hause and Maltby, pp. 140 156. Hause and Maltby, pp. 157 162, 169 175. Hause and Maltby, pp. 162 168. Tyerman, pp. 36 78. Hause and Maltby, chapter 10. Gimpel, pp. vii xi, 1 28. Hause and Maltby, chapter 11. Mundy, pp. 178 195. Hause and Maltby, pp. 214-220. Ziegler, pp. 156 161. Byrne, pp. 57 72. Hause and Maltby, pp. 220 232. Mackay and Ditchburn (eds.), pp. 159 162. Hause and Maltby, pp. 233 243.
Part 5: Early Modern Europe 21 22 23 24 The Renaissance The Italian City-States; Humanism; and Transformation of the Arts and Sciences. The Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century The Decline of Papal Authority; Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation; Henry VIII and the Transformation of English Christianity; and The Catholic Reformation. Warfare and the Crisis of the Early Modern State The French Wars of Religion and the Revolt of the Netherlands The Thirty Years War; and The English Civil War. The Scientific Revolution The Origins of Modern Science from Copernicus to Newton; and Medicine from Galen to Harvey. Hause and Maltby, pp. 243-252. Holmes, 243-253. Hause and Maltby, chapter 14. Hause and Maltby, pp. 279 290. Seel, pp. 100 105. Hause and Maltby, pp. 291 298. Gingerich and MacLachlan, pp. 111 115. MacLachlan, pp. 103 111. 25 London in the 1600s Boulton, pp. 315-332. Part 6: Student Presentations 26 Student Presentations 27 Student Presentations 28 Student Presentations and Course Review