Class Schedule: Week 7
Monday,
February 27
Topic of
Discussion:
Gunpowder:
Evolution or Revolution?
Reading:
Archer, Ferris,
Herwig, and Tavers, pp. 217-256
Wednesday,
March 1
Topic of
Discussion:
The Crisis
of Authority and the Age of "Religious" Wars
Readings:
Archer, Ferris,
Herwig, and Tavers, pp. 278-303
Venetian Ambassador
Alvise Contarini Reports on the Causes of the French Civil Wars (1572) [Blackboard]
Excerpts from
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
(1669) [Blackboard]
Jacques Callot,
"Miseries of War" (etchings) (1633) [Food
for Thought]
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