EMS 8250 is also offered in Spring 2024
EMS 8250 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2024 | EMS 8250 Section 001: Seminar in Early Modern Studies (67359)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 6 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Meets With:
HIST 8540 Section 001
MEST 8110 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (3 of 3 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Current research and debates in early modern studies. Theoretical approaches to major questions shaping seminar's subject matter.
- Class Notes:
- Topic: The Premodern Digital Mediterranean & Beyond As a research area, Mediterranean history is characterized by an extreme multiplicity of languages, widely divergent archival and textual practices across time and space, and vast disparities in the quality, availability and accessibility of historical sources in the existing archival record. As a region, the Mediterranean is also characterized by political fragmentation and diplomatic volatility that can often make research--particularly research across national boundaries--bureaucratically fraught or even physically perilous. As a result, Mediterranean history is at field for which the new methodologies of Digital History are at once particularly useful and particularly challenging to implement. Against this background, this seminar will explore a series of recent digital approaches to the study of the Mediterranean over a broad chronology from the ancient world through the early modern period, ranging from video games and virtual reality to ArchGIS and social network visualization.
- Class Description:
- Art and Science in the Time of the 'Scientific Revolution': Making and Knowing in Europe, 1400-1800
This course will explore the diverse ways in which the making of art and the making of scientific knowledge intersected in early modern Europe. We will consider connections between scientific curiosity and the visual arts in the context of institutions that joined these endeavors: workshops, libraries, laboratories, museums, collectors' cabinets, academies, as well as the encounter between European knowing and the new world explorations of the period. The course will involve a collaboration with a group from Utrecht University, and will involve travel to the Netherlands as part of the course, so space is limited.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67359/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2024 Early Modern Studies Classes