Information on the course for session 2005-2006

 

This course handout tells you about the organisation of the course.  It should be used in conjunction with the Department’s Guidelines for Students for the appropriate level.  Please read both carefully and keep both for reference throughout the half-session.

 

CONTENTS

1          Lecture and Seminar Schedule                           page 2

2          Introduction to the course                                   page 3

3          Aims and learning outcomes                               page 3

4          Teaching and learning methods                           page 3

5          Assessment                                                      page 4

6          Plagiarism                                                         page 4

7          The role of the course co-ordinator                     page 5

8          Responsibility for the course                               page 5

9          Bibliography                                                      page 5

10        Essay Guidelines, Extensions & Penalties            page 15

11        Student Feedback and Comment                                    page 17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Classes meet for the lecture on Thursdays between 12 and 1 pm  in  , and on Mondays between  11 and 1 pm for the seminar. The material presented in the lecture will be discussed during the following seminar session.

 L= Lecture; S= Seminar

 

Week 1          

S -  Registration and introductory discussion – assigments of presentations

L –  Age of Reform and Reformation

 

Week 2

S –  Empire, Church and Reformers

L -  War and Peace: 1525-1555

 

Week 3

S –  From the Peasants' War to the Peace of Augsburg

L – Urban life in 16^th century Germany

 

Week 4

S –  Reformation in the Cities  

L – The Second Reformation

 

Week 5

S – The Confessional Age, 1580-1620

L -  The Thirty Years War

 

Week 6

S -  Germany's European  War?

L -  Countryfolk and the Agrarian Economy

 

Week 7

S – Lord and Peasant in an Age of Unrest

L - Poverty, Crime and Punishment

 

Week 8

 

S - Witches, Wisewomen and Prostitutes     

L – Territorialisation and the Ständestaat                 

 

Week 9

S – Princes and Parliaments

L – The Case of Brandenburg-Prussia

 

Week 10

S – Case Studies

L – The German Enlightenment

 

Week 11

S – Philosophers and Courts

L – The Impact of the French Revolution

 

Week 12

S –  Beyond Enlightenment: The Reichs Reform Movement

L – An Empire falls apart

 

 

 

 

 

Composed of hundreds of principalities, cities, bishoprics and other territories, the ‘Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation’ – as Germany was then called - seemed an incoherent patchwork, yet it functioned as a political entity for centuries. This course studies the great diversity of German history at a time of profound transformation, from the onset of the Reformation to the destruction of the Empire by Napoleon in the early years of the nineteenth century. We will look at religious conflict and social rebellion, the impact of war on society, the important role of German cities, the relationship between Empire and territorial states, Baroque culture, the impact of the early Enlightenment, the changing idea of Empire and the development of early national identity. As for much of this time the Empire was a battlefield for the diverse interests of European dynasties in the ‘heart of Europe’, we will explore the relationship between Germany and its neighbours. The question we have to ask is not ‘why did the Holy Roman Empire fail?’, but ‘why and how did it survive for such a long period’?

 

 

Aims:

 

·         to promote scholarly investigation and deepen students’ understanding of early-modern Germany

·         to facilitate the development of judgement and good practice by students, who will select and pursue research themes centred on their individual interests as these emerge during the course

·         to introduce students to unfamiliar types of sources and to to incorporate the study of primary sources as a vital tool in the cultivation of critical, analytical abilities

·         to emphasise the development of presentational and debating skills, the giving and receiving of academic criticism, the evaluation of disparate analyses amd the testing of the students' arguments through active student participation in seminars

·         to provide opportunities for teamwork in seminars and in group presentations

·         to cultivate general skills in time-management, self-learning and initiative through the allocation of assignments

·         to encourage the use of information technology for bibliographical searches

 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students should be able:

·         to identify and outline key factors relating to the development of early modern Germany between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries

·         to relate the development of early modern German society, government, culture and religion to the long-term success or failure of the Holy Roman Empire

·         to identify, analyse and synthesise primary and secondary sources, and to compare and evaluate disparate and conflicting sources and arguments.

·         to understand that some views and attitudes are specific to certain times and places

·         to provide and receive academic criticism in a constructive fashion

·         to research, construct and present essays based on relevant written, visual, on-line and electronic sources

·         to budget time and effort effectively

·         to develop skills relating to word processing, data (including bibliographic) production, presentation and analysis and the use of the internet

·         to develop and refine skills of verbal expression, organisation and team-work through seminars and group presentations

 

 

Lectures are held once a week, on   in    .

 

Seminars are held once a week, on from in. The seminars will build on themes introduced in the lectures and will be student-led, featuring presentations followed by questions, general discussions and analysis of primary source materials. The course co-ordinator will serve as moderator and facilitator in these discussions.

 

Written work

·       Book review (800-1000  words) due by 4.00 p.m. on

·       Essay (3000-3500 words) due by 4.00 p.m. on

It is expected that written work will be submitted in word-processed format. Students must consult with the course co-ordinator in choosing a book for review and deciding on an essay topic. The essay must be accompanied by a bibliography and foot- or endnotes conforming to established academic conventions (see below).

 

Essays will be returned with a mark taken from the Common Assessment Scale with written comments. All students will be given an opportunity to discuss their essay, techniques of essay writing, and other aspects of the course with the course co-ordinator. See Departmental Guidelines (and below) for information on extensions and the late submission of work.

 

The degree examination will be held in May/June 2006. The purpose of the examination is to test your ability to synthesise material covered in the course. The general format of the examination will be discussed in advance, to assist you in preparation for it.

 

Oral presentations

Students will be expected to deliver one seminar presentation either individually or as part of a group.

 

Further reading

This is an essential part of any course in history and will deepen your understanding and enjoyment of the period and the discipline of history. The bibliography (below) provides points of departure for further reading on the topics covered in the course. The footnotes and bibliographies of these books and articles are two sources of further reading; the search-features of the library catalogue, browsing the open shelves, and consulting the course co-ordinator are other ways forward. A major outcome of a university education should be an ability to find information on any topic within your field. You are encouraged to show initiative in developing this ability.

 

Photocopied material

A modest charge will be levied by the Department to help defray the cost of photocopied material.  This charge is a one-off charge for the year and is not levied per course as at sub-honours. The money is paid to the Level 3 convenor (Dr Macdonald). Charges are: Single Honours students, £12; Joints Honours students, £6; others, £3.

 

 

Assessment is based on one essay (3500-4000 words) (30%), the oral presentation (10%)  and the end-of-course examination (60%). The examination will last for three hours and students must answer three out of twelve questions. Assessment will be according to the University’s Common Assessment Scale (CAS).

 

Students are advised that the listed weightings for different components of assessment within a course are contingent upon a minimum CAS mark of six (6) being achieved on all assessed work. Where a student has not achieved a CAS mark of at least six (6) on any one component of assessment, s/he will not receive a pass mark for the course.

 

A student who fails to pass solely on the basis of having failed to achieve the threshold mark of six (6) on all individual pieces of assessed work will be awarded a final course mark of eight (8).

 

 

The definition of Plagiarism is the use, without adequate acknowledgement, of the intellectual work of another person in work submitted for assessment.  A student cannot be found to have committed plagiarism where it can be shown that the student has taken all reasonable care to avoid representing the work of others as his own.

 

All cases of suspected plagiarism will be reported to the University Investigating Officer.

 

 

 

The co-ordinator for this course is Karin Friedrich. Her role is not simply to teach but to advise and help.  Students who are having difficulty with their work for whatever reason, or who require help or information should consult her without delay.  Her office is indicated in the Student Guidelines and times when she is available for consultation are posted on her office door and the course website (accessible via the departmental website listed on the cover of this handout). Alternatively, messages for her can be left in the Departmental Office (Crombie Annexe, ground floor).

 

 

Overall responsibility for the course lies with Dr Karin Friedrich (Room 207; tel: 01224 272451; email: k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk). Any recommendations, observations or complaints about the running of the course should be addressed to her, either directly or by way of your class representatives.

 

 

The bibliography printed below is serves as a tool for further individual investigation, either through footnotes and bibliographies in the listed books, or additional reference works and internet sites, e-books and e-journals. Tow important sources (esp. for the history of ideas and culture) are  the following websites which list early modern  works written in English (or translated into English):

1. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/history.html

2. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

3. Eurodocs: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germ/1648.html

4. A bibliography of works on the early period (15-16^th c.): http://www.dur.ac.uk/l.e.scales/gotexbib.htm

5. Sources on military matters can be found at  http://www.deremilitari.org/

6. For the Lutheran Reformation see http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html

7. The following source base is still under construction:

 http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=8

8. For information on new publications, reviews, debates etc. see http://www.h-net.org/~german/

9. The Luther Memorial Foundation: http://www.martinluther.de/cgi-bin/vm/luther

10. E-sources on the Reformation: http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.html

and http://www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/laurence/reformation/index.htm

11. A selection of links on 1500-1648:  http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1ges/fnz/reformation.html

12. http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1ges/heidelberg/gh/gh.html

 

 

General works

 

On Europe:

 

Thomas Munck, Seventeenth-Century Europe (1993)

T. C. W. Blanning, The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture - Old Regime Europe 1660-1789  (OUP, 2003)

Tony Upton, Europe 1600-1789 (2001)

R. Oresko, G. Gibbs (eds.), Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe (1997)

M. Raeff, The Well-Ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600-1800 (1983)

M. Greengrass (ed.), Conquest and Coalescence: the shaping of the state in early modern Europe  (1991)

James D. Tracy, Europe's Reformations 1450-1650 (1999)

 

 

Sources:

C.A. Macartney, The Habsburg and Hohenzollern Dynasties (1970)

S. Pufendorf,     On the Duty of man and Citizen (1673) Engl. transl. (Cambridge 1991)

The Fugger News-Letters. Being a Selection of unpublished letters from the Correspondants of the House of Fugger during the years 1568-1605. Ed. by V. cvon Klarwill, transl. Pauline de Chary, foreword by H.G. Selfridge vol 1 (London 1925, repr. 1925), vol. 2  transl. by L.S.R. Byrne (1926)

 

 

On Germany:

 

Peter Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806 (1999)

Peter Wilson, From Reich to Revolution: German history, 1558-1806 (2004),

Robert Sribner, S. Ogilvie (eds.), Germany: A new Social and Economic History vol. I: 1450-1630 (1996), vol II: 1630-1800 (1998)

S. Ozment, A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People (2005)

John Gagliardo, Germany under the Old Regime 1600-1790 (1991)

M. Hughes, Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806 (1992)

P. S. Fichtner, The Habsburg Monarchy 1490-1848 (2003)

Charles Ingrao (ed), State and Society in Early Modern Austria (1994), collection of essays by several authors

Rudolf Vierhaus, Germany in the Age of Absolutism (1988)

Robert J.W. Evans, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy 1550-1700 (1979)

F.L. Carsten, Princes and Parliaments in Germany from the 15^th to the 18^th century (1959)

J.A. Vann, and S.W. Rowan, The Old Reich: Essays on German Political Institutions 1495-1806 (1974)

G. Benecke, Society and Politics in Germany 1500-1750 (1974)*

H. Gross, ‘The Holy Roman Empire in modern times: constitutional reality and legal theory’ in Vann, J.A. & Rowan, S.W. (eds.) The Old Reich (1974)

G.D. Ramsey, ‘The Austrian Habsburgs and the Empire’ New Cambridge Modern History III ch. 10.

G.D. Ramsey, ‘The state of Germany (to 1618)’ New Cambridge Modern History IV (1970)

Robert W. Scribner, Religion and Culture in Germany 1400-1800, ed. L. Roper (2001)

 

Week 1          

S -  Registration and introductory discussion – assigments of presentations

L –  Age of Reform and Reformation

 

A. Pettegree (ed.), The Early Reformation in Europe (1992)

A. Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation World (2000) [NetLibrary] [recommended for general reference]

R. Po-Chia Hsia (ed.), The German People and the Reformation (1988)

R. Po-Chia Hsia , A Companion to the Reformation World (2003)

R.W. Scribner and Scott Dixon, The German Reformation (1986)

E.I. Kouri, Tom Scott (eds), Politics and Religion in Reformation Europe (1987), esp. I, II,2,3,8

 

Historiographical Debate:

R. Poertner, 'A.G. Dickens and the continental Reformation', Historical Research 77 (195) (Feb 2004), 59-78.

 

 

Sources on the Reformation:

M. G. Baylor (ed.), The Radical Reformation (1991)

W. A. Coupe (ed.), German Political Satires, vols. 1-2 (1985)

M. Geisberg; W. L. Strauss (ed.), The German Single-Leaf Woodcut 1550-1600: a Pictorial Catalogue (4 vols, 1974-5)

P. Johnston; R. W. Scribner (eds), The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland (1993)

S. Karant-Nunn; Merry Wiesner-Hanks (eds), Luther on Women: A Sourcebook (2003)

W. Klaassen (ed.), Anabaptism in Outline. Selected Primary Sources (1981)

C. Lindberg (ed.), European Reformations Sourcebook (1999)

M. Luther, Works (American edn)

"    , Selections from his Writings, ed. J. Dillenberger (1961)

"    , Three Treatises (1970)

J. C. Olin (ed.), Christian Humanism and the Reformation (1987) [works by Erasmus] [NetLibrary]

U. Rummel (ed.), Five Reformation Satires (1993) [NetLibrary]

T. Scott; R. W. Scribner (eds.), The German Peasants' War: a History in Documents (1991)

G. Strauss (ed.), Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on the Eve of the Reformation (1971)

E. Vandiver et al. (eds), Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther (2002)

G. Strauss (ed.), Manifestations (esp. 'Reformatio Sigismundi')

Images: view images uploaded on WebCT for this course

Sources:

Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority, ed. Harro Höpfl (1991), by Luther, pp. 3-43, (see also introduction and glossary for help)

 

Week 2

S –  Church and Reformers

 

Reformers and Church:

Heiko A. Oberman, Luther. Man Between God and the Devil (Yale 1989)

G. Strauss (ed.), Manifestations of Discontent in Germany on the Eve of the Reformation (1971)

M. Wiesner-Hanks (ed.), Convents confront the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Nuns in Germany (1996)

R.W. Scribner et al. (eds), The Reformation in National Context (1994)

Thomas A. Brady, Jr. The Politics of the Reformation in Germany: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) of Strasbourg. (1997)

Tom Brady, Communities, Politics and Refomation in Early Modern Europe (1998)

Ulinka Rublack, Reformation Europe (2005), pp. 12-65

Bruce Gordon, The Swiss Reformation (2002)

Heiko A.Oberman, 'Luther and the Via Moderna: The Philosophical Backdrop of the Reformation Breakthrough', The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 54, Issue 04 (October 2003) , pp 641-670

G. Benecke, Maximilian I (1982)

A. G. Dickens, The German Nation and Martin Luther (1974)

W. Eberhard, 'Bohemia, Moravia and Austria', in A. Pettegree, The Early Reformation in Europe (1992), pp. 23-48, also Bruce Gordon on Switzerland pp. 70-93.

Steven Ozment, Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution (1992)

Quentin Skinner, 'Absolutism and the Lutheran Reformation', in his The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Vol 2: The Reformation (1978), pp. 3-108.

B.M.G. Reardon, Religious Thought in the Reformation (1981), on Luther pp. 47-90, on Zwingli pp. 91-117, on Melanchthon, 118-146

Scott Dixon (ed.), The German Reformation (1999), esp. chapters 3,4,5.

Gerhard Ebeling, Luther. An introduction to his thought (1964)

S. Dixon and L. Schorn-Schütte (eds), The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe  (2003), esp. 1,2,3, 4, 6.

M. Greengrass, The Longman Companion to the European Reformation (1998)

 

 

L -  Empire 1517-1555

 

Empire:

P. Wilson, From Reich to Revolution, chapter 2.

Paula S. Fichtner, The Habsburg Monarchy, chapter one.

V. Press, ‘The Holy Roman Empire in German History’ in Kouri, E.I. & Scott, T. (eds.) Politics and Society in Reformation Europe (1987) A handy brief overview.

V. Press, ‘The system of Estates in the Austrian hereditary lands and in the Holy Roman Empire: a comparison’ in Evans and Thomas, Crown, Church and Estates ,

C.-P. Clasen, ‘The Empire before 1618’ in Trevor-Roper, H.R. (ed.) The Age of Expansion (1968)

William Maltby, The Reign of Charles V (2002)

T. A. Brady, ‘Political Structures’, in his: Protestant Politics. Jacob Sturm and the German Reformation (1995), 8-12

T. F. Sea, ‘The Swabian League and government in the Holy Roman Empire of the early sixteenth century’, in: J. G. Rowe (ed.), Aspects of Late Medieval Government and Society (1987)

Lorna J. Abray, The People's Reformation. Magistrates, Clergy and Commons in Strasbourg 1500-1598 (1985)

Len Scales, 'Late medieval Germany: an under-Stated nation?', Power and the Nation  in European History, ed. Len Sclaes and O. Zimmer (2005), pp. 166-191.

R.J.W. Evans, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700 (1979), pp. 3-40

Alfred Kohler, Ferdinand I. 1503-1564. Fürst, König und Kaiser (2003)

Paula S. Fichtner, Emperor Maximilian II (Yale 2001)

 

Sources:

 

'The Statement of Grievances  Presented to the Diet of Worms 1521'in G. Strauss, Manifestations of Discontent, pp. 52-63

Sebastian Brant's text in G. Strauss, Manifestations of Discontent, pp. 223-233.

 

 

Week 3

S –  From the Peasants' War to the Peace of Augsburg

 

R. Wunderli, Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen (1992)

P. Blickle, ‘Peasant revolts in the German empire in the late Middle Ages’, in: Social History 4 (1979)

P. Blickle , The Revolution of 1525 (1981), 29-57

Tom Scott, Freiburg and the Breisgau. Town-Country Relations in the Age of Reformation and Peasants’ War (Oxford U.P. 1986)

Bennecke, Society and Politics in Germany, 1500-1750 (1974)

Thomas A. Brady, The Politics of the Reformation in Germany: Jacob Sturm (1489-1553) of Strasbourg. (1997)

Thomas A. Brady, Communities, Politics and Refomation in Early Modern Europe (1998)

R. McEntegard, Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden and the English Reformation (2002)

G. Haug-Moritz, Der Schmalkaldische Bund 1530-1541/2 (2002)

H. Zmora, State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: the Knightly Feud in Franconia 1440-1567 (1998)

Friedrich Engels: The Peasant War in Germany [1870] (3^rd ed. 2000)

 

Sources:

 

'Articles of the Peasants of 1525' and 'Complaints of the Knights of Franconia 1522', in G. Strauss, Manifestations of Discontent, pp. 153-165, 179-191.

T. Scott; R. W. Scribner (eds.), The German Peasants' War: a History in Documents (1991)

 

 

L – Urban life in 16^th century Germany

 

P. Buck, S. Ozment, The Reformation in the Cities (1975)

Bernd Moeller, Imperial Cities and the Reformation. Three Essays, transl.H.C. E. Midelfort and M. U. Edwards jr (1972)

R. Po-Chia Hsia,.(ed.), The German People and the Reformation (Cornell U.P., 1988), see  Schilling’s article on Lippe!

M.U. Chrisman,            Strasbourg and the Reform (1967)

R. Po-Chia Hsia,  Society and Religion in Münster, 1535-1618 (1984)

C. Friedrichs, Urban Society in an Age of War: Nördlingen 1580-1720 (1979)

H.-C. Rublack, “Political and Social Norms in Urban Communities in the Holy Roman Empire”, in Religion, Politics and SocialProtest: Three Studies on Early Modern Germany, ed.Kaspar von Greyerz (1984)

H. Schilling, H., ‘The Reformation in the Hanseatic Cities’, Sixteenth Century Journal 14 (1983)

S. Dixon, S., ‘The German Reformation and the Territorial City: Reform Initiatives in Schwabach, 1523-1527’, German History 14 (1996), no. 2, pp. 123-140.

J. Beyer, ‘A Lübeck prophet in local and Lutheran context’, in ibid., pp. 166-182.

K.v. Greyerz,  The late city Reformation in Germany: the case of Colmar, 1522-1628 (1980)

G. Strauss, ‘Protestant dogma and city govenment: the case of Nuremberg’, Past and Present 36 (1967)

T. Brady, Ruling Class, Regime, and Reformation in Strasbourg 1520-1555 (1978)

Anthony Black, Guilds and Civil Society in European Political Thought from  the Twelfth Century to the Present (1984)

Mack Walker, German Home Towns: Community, State and General Estate, 1648-1871 (1971) early chapters

Christopher Friedrichs, 'Urban Politics and Urban Social Structures in Seventeenth-Century Germany', European History Quarterly 22 (1992), pp. 187-216.

Thomas A. Brady, 'Patricians, Nobles, Merchants: Internal Tension and Solidarities in South German Urban Ruling Classes at the Close of  the Middle Ages', in Chrisman and Gründler, eds., Social Groups and Religious Ideas in the 16th Century (1978), 38-45, 159-164.

Joachim Whaley, Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 (1985) early chapters

Anja Johann, Kontrolle mit Konsens. Sozialdisziplinierung in der Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main im 16. Jahrhundert (2001)

Heinz Schilling, 'Calvinist and Catholic Cities. Urban architecture and ritual in confessional Europe', European Review 12:3 (2004), 293-312.

 

Urban Rebellion:

C. Friedrichs, ‘German Town Revolts and the Seventeenth Century Crisis’, Renaissance and Modern Studies 26 (1982), 27-51.

C. Friedrichs, 'Urban Conflicts and the Imperial Constitution in C17-Century Germany', Journal of Modern History suppl. 1986, S98-S123.

G. Soliday, A Community in Conflict: Frankfurt Society in the 17^th and  early 18^th century (1974)

H. Schilling, 'The European Crisis of the 1590s: the situation in German towns’, in: P. Clark, ed., The European Crisis of the 1590s (1985), 135 ff.

 

Week 4

S –  Reformation of the Common People 

 

David W. Sabean, Power in the Blood. Popular Culture and village discourse in early modern Germany (1984), ch. 1.

R. Po-Chia Hsia,.(ed.), The German People and the Reformation (Cornell U.P., 1988), see  Schilling’s article on Lippe!

R. Po-Chia Hsia, Society and Religion in Münster, 1535-1618 (New Haven: Yale U.P., 1984)

R. Po-Chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation. Central Europe 1550-1750 (1989), ch. 1,3,5,7.

A. Pettegree, (ed.), The Reformation of the Parishes: The Ministry and the Reformation in Town and Country (Manchester U.P., 1993) 

H. Schilling, Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (1991)

S. Karant-Nunn,  Reformation of Ritual  (Routledge 1997)      

L. Roper, L., The Holy Household. Women and Morale in Reformation Augsburg (1989)

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