EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Early Modern Europe, Dutch West India Company, Ninety-Five Theses
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Lecture: events and issues in early modern europe. Timeline of events that we will look at it in this course. We are considering what"s usually called early modern europe ; post-medieval but not yet modern . From the reformation (1517, 95 theses in wittenberg) to the french revolution (1789) On the way; humanism and the renaissance, baroque, enlightenment. The origins or spirit capitalism - also in the form of the first global corporations (dutch east and west india companies) The treaty of westphalia and the modern state system. Enlightenment and its discontents (including revolution and terror) Last time we discussed some key ideas and developments associated with modernity. Individualism, system of nation states, capitalism, scientific and technological revolutions, tolerance, democracy, secularization, rationalism, and. Modern marks a break with the authority of the past and tradition, an emphasis on the specialness of the present. Modern is itself a modern idea and word!
