group 1- 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.

 group 2- Dr. oded rabinovitz Tamar Hertzig

This introductory course will focus on the central processes that shaped European culture and society between the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century: urban and rural society in post-Plague Europe; the invention of the printing press and new forms of media; Humanism and the culture of the Renaissance; the late-medieval religious crisis, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; early globalization and its impact on the European economy; the rise of centralized states and court culture; the Scientific Revolution and the early Enlightenment..