Class Schedule: Week 3

Tuesday, January 28

Food for Thought
Topic of Discussion:
The Struggle for Stability
Readings:
Venetian Ambassador Alvise Contarini Reports on the Causes of the French Civil Wars (1572)
Excerpts from Theodore Raab, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe (1975)
Web Gallery:
The Struggle for Stability
Engravings of the Religious Wars

Thursday, January 30

Food for Thought
Topic of Discussion:
The Military Revolution Debate
Readings:
Michael Roberts, "The Military Revolution, 1560-1660" (1967)
Geoffrey Parker, "The 'Military Revolution, 1560-1660'—A Myth?" (1976)
Clifford Rogers, "The Military Revolution of the Hundred Years War" (1993)
Jeremy Black, "A Military Revolution? A 1660-1792 Perspective" (1995)
 

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