Class Schedule: Week 8
Tuesday,
March 11
Topic of Discussion:
The Crisis of
Authority
and the Age of Religious Wars
Readings:
Archer, Ferris,
Herwig, and Tavers, pp. 278-302
Venetian Ambassador
Alvise Contarini Reports on the Causes of the French Civil Wars (1572) [Blackboard]
Excerpts from
Hans Jacob Christofell von Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
(1669) [Blackboard]
Jacques Callot,
"Miseries of War" (etchings) (1633)
Thursday,
March 13
Topic of Discussion:
War and Early
European Empires
Readings:
Archer, Ferris,
Herwig, and Tavers, pp. 240-242, 440-448
Excerpts from
Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain (1576) [Blackboard]
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