Course Description:

This course analyses select themes in Early Modern French history.  It constructs knowledge of social and political developments from 1450 to 1750, and develops understanding of early modern French culture, the experience of the people who were part of it and its impact across Europe and the World.

Course materials:

William Beik, A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France.  Available as ACLS Humanities E-Book, via Library. 

Numerous other readings, including primary materials, are linked to the course website at www.courselink.uoguelph.ca [1], or will be found on Course Reserve at Library.  Select primary source excerpts will be available as hard copy in class.

Evaluation:

Question Sets

• Q set 1 - 13%
• Q set 2 - 13%

Thematic Research project:  presentation + essay

• proposal meeting (group) Week IIII - 5% (p/f)
• class presentation (group) Weeks VIII-XI - 13%
• essay (individual) Week XI - 25%

Final Examination: take-home (72 hr. window) - 31%

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