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Lehrveranstaltungen

The Tranformation of Modern Europe (Group 1) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ian McManus, Sara Tomczuk

Inhalt: Through individual actions and broader circumstances --both by way of instantaneous revolutions and by slower changes-- ‘modern’ Europe emerged out of the Middle Ages over the last 300 to 400 years. How did these changes come about, and how did the new social structures differ from those of the medieval period? Which ideals drove the transformations, and which actors had a role in forming the new modes of social organization? Which stories do scholars and common knowledge tell about both the benefits of these social transformations and about the new problems they generate? Though engagement with both scholarly analytical texts and canonical primary sources, we will gain a broad yet deep understanding of how Europe changed to become ‘modern’. We’ll explore three key spheres of social life: culture, economy, and politics. We aim to identify the actors involved in these transformations, the ideas animating the changes, and the newly emerging or transforming institutions of each of the three spheres. We explore who experienced these transformations as liberations, and who was excluded from those liberations (even experiencing increased constraints as a result of the changes). Sessions 1 to 2 will serve as a broad introduction, where we will raise the relevance of the question about modernity, introduce the ambiguity around benefits of these transformations, and take a comparative look at medieval Europe. In the following sessions - 3 to 11 - the three spheres (cultural, economic, political) will be dealt with in three sessions each. Both in a mid-semester session and in the last session, we will look back on the ground that we will have covered, by utilizing the analytical concepts of ‘actors’, ‘institutions’, and ‘ideas’ and by paying attention to the connections between the different developments.

Leuphana Bachelor - Leuphana Semester - Wissenschaft kennt disziplinäre Grenzen. Einführung in das Studium Individuale

The Tranformation of Modern Europe (Group 2) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Jakob Dirksen, Marral Shamshiri-Fard

Inhalt: Through individual actions and broader circumstances --both by way of instantaneous revolutions and by slower changes-- ‘modern’ Europe emerged out of the Middle Ages over the last 300 to 400 years. How did these changes come about, and how did the new social structures differ from those of the medieval period? Which ideals drove the transformations, and which actors had a role in forming the new modes of social organization? Which stories do scholars and common knowledge tell about both the benefits of these social transformations and about the new problems they generate? Though engagement with both scholarly analytical texts and canonical primary sources, we will gain a broad yet deep understanding of how Europe changed to become ‘modern’. We’ll explore three key spheres of social life: culture, economy, and politics. We aim to identify the actors involved in these transformations, the ideas animating the changes, and the newly emerging or transforming institutions of each of the three spheres. We explore who experienced these transformations as liberations, and who was excluded from those liberations (even experiencing increased constraints as a result of the changes). Sessions 1 to 2 will serve as a broad introduction, where we will raise the relevance of the question about modernity, introduce the ambiguity around benefits of these transformations, and take a comparative look at medieval Europe. In the following sessions - 3 to 11 - the three spheres (cultural, economic, political) will be dealt with in three sessions each. Both in a mid-semester session and in the last session, we will look back on the ground that we will have covered, by utilizing the analytical concepts of ‘actors’, ‘institutions’, and ‘ideas’ and by paying attention to the connections between the different developments.

Leuphana Bachelor - Leuphana Semester - Wissenschaft kennt disziplinäre Grenzen. Einführung in das Studium Individuale