These notes have been placed here for the convenience of my students. They aren't meant as a substitute for attending lectures, and I have not included everything I'll say in class.
Sept. 11 The Discontents of the Later Middle Ages
Sept. 13 Politics in the 15th C.
Sept. 15 The Turks
Sept. 20 History That Stands Still
Sept. 22 Economic Life and the "Common People"
Sept. 27 Christianity at the Beginning of the Early Modern Period
Sept. 29 Renaissance Thought and Politics
Oct. 4 Two Northern Kingdoms: France and England in the 100 Years' War
Oct. 18 Germany and the Towns of the North
Oct. 20 Exploration, Trade and Conquest
Oct. 25 Italy in the Time of Machiavelli
Oct. 27 Charles V and the Unification of European Politics
Nov. 1 Luther and the German Reformation
Nov. 3 The Reformation Continued
Nov. 8 The Counter-Reformation
Nov. 10 Sixteenth-Century England
Nov. 15 The Witch Hunt
Nov. 17 War in the 16th Century
Nov. 22 Religious Warfare in France
Nov. 24 The Dutch Revolt
Nov. 29 The
Year of the Armada and After
Dec. 1 The
Dutch Miracle
SECOND TERM
Jan. 10 England, Scotland and Ireland under Elizabeth and James
Jan. 12 Origins of the English Civil War
Jan. 17 England Divided
Jan. 19 Commonwealth and Restoration
Jan. 24 & 26 The Last Valley
Jan. 31 Overcoming a Crisis? Warfare, Witchcraft, and Domestic Peace
Feb. 2 Theory of Absolutism -- Louis XIV and Versailles
Feb. 7 17th C. Imperialism
Feb. 14 The Glorious Revolution
Feb. 16 The Wars of Louis XIV
Feb. 28 Parties and Parliament in Early Eighteenth Century Britain
Mar. 2 Enlightenment Thought
Mar. 7 Enlightened Despots and Others
Mar. 9 Prussian
Absolutism
Mar. 14 Imperial
Wars of the Eighteenth Century .
Mar. 16 Prelude
to the Industrial Revolution
Mar. 21 France
in the Generation before the Revolution
Mar. 23 Revolutionary
Thought and Feeling in the Late 18th Century
Mar. 28 Causes
of the French Revolution
Mar. 30 Early Stages of the French Revolution
Apr. 4 Rise and Fall of a Constitutional Monarchy
Apr. 6 Monarchy
to Terror to Reaction