prof. david katz
This course explores the main developments typical of early modern Europe, focusing especially on the cultural and religious history of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

prof. Tamar Hertzig

This course explores the main developments typical of early modern Europe, focusing especially on the cultural and religious history of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The course surveys the social and economic conditions that made possible the evolution of Renaissance culture; the spread of humanism in the Italian peninsula and north of the Alps; the printing revolution; the age of discoveries; the ecclesiastical establishment and its critics at the turn of the sixteenth century; the Protestant Reformation; the Counter-Reformation and Baroque culture; the wars of religion, and early modern state formation.