ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
To introduce students to the knowledge of the main demographic, economic, social, political and cultural processes in Europe in the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century.
-To acquire a critical awareness of the space-time coordinates.
The programme of the subject is organized in three blocks, comprising:
a) socioeconomic bases; b) the thought and culture and c) the government, domestic policy and international relations. Each of these thematic blocks includes four units.
A- The socioeconomic foundations:
1.- The demographic regime of the Old Regime and evolution of the population in the 16th and 17th centuries
2.- Economy. Agriculture and industry in the 16th and 17th centuries
3.- Trade and capitalist techniques. Mercantilism
4.- The European society in the Modern Age. Structure and evolution
B- The thought and culture:
5.- Channels for disseminating culture
6.- Renaissance and Humanism: intellectual and cultural bases of the modern world
7.- Religious reforms
8.- Origins of the Modern Science
C- The government, the domestic policy and the international relations
9.- Origins of the Modern State
10.- The birth of the new monarchies and plurality of political forms in Europe
11.- The advance of absolutism in the 17th century. The Kingdom of England and the Dutch Republic
12.- International relations (1500-1650)
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
EIRAS ROEL, A., Historia Universal, 12. Siglo XVII, Barcelona, 1994.
FLORISTÁN IMIZCOZ, A. (coord.), Historia Moderna Universal, Barcelona, Ariel, 2015.
FORTEA PÉREZ, J.I., Historia Universal. 11. Siglo XVI, Barcelona, 1994.
HINRICHS, E., Introducción a la Historia de la Edad Moderna, Barcelona, Ariel, 2001.
MOLAS RIBALTA, P. et al., Manual de historia moderna, Barcelona, Ariel, 1993.
TENENTI, A., La Edad Moderna: siglos XVI-VIII, Barcelona, Crítica, 2000.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
BARDET, J.-P. y DUPÂQUIER, J. (dirs), Historia de las poblaciones de Europa, Síntesis, Madrid, 2001.
BÉLY, L., Lárt de la paix en Europe. Naissance de la diplomatie moderne XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 2007.
BURKE, P., El Renacimiento europeo, Crítica, Barcelona, 2000.
DEWALD, J., La nobleza europea, 1400-1800, Valencia, 2004.
DUPLESSIS, R.S., Transiciones al capitalismo en Europa durante la Edad Moderna, Zaragoza, 2001.
ELLIOT, J.H., Europa en la época de Felipe II (1559-1598), Crítica, Barcelona, 2000.
GONZÁLEZ ENCISO, A., El nacimiento del Capitalismo en Europa, Ed. Eunate, Madrid, 2011.
KAMEN, H., La sociedad europea, 1500-1700, Madrid, 1986.
LUTZ, H., Reforma y Contrarreforma: Europa entre 1520 y 1648, Alianza, Madrid, 2009.
MACKENNEY, R., La Europa del siglo XVI. Expansión y conflicto, Akal, Madrid, 1996.
MARAVALL, J.A., La cultura del Barroco: análisis de una estructura histórica, Barcelona, 2008.
MARTÍNEZ MILLÁN, J.; CARLOS MORALES, J., Religión, política y tolerancia en la Europa Moderna, Polifermo, Madrid, 2011.
REINHARD, W. (ed.), Las élites de poder y la construcción del Estado, Madrid, 1996.
RIVERO RODRÍGUEZ, M., Diplomacia y relaciones exteriores en la Edad Moderna. De la cristiandad al sistema europeo, 1453-1794, Madrid, 2000.
ROSSI, P., El nacimiento de la Ciencia Moderna en Europa, Crítica, Barcelona, 1997.
SCHULTZ, H., Historia económica de Europa (1500-1800). Artesanos, mercaderes y banqueros, Siglo XXI de España, Madrid, 2001.
Specific skills:
-Understanding and analyzing the key factors explaining the Universal Modern History from the sixteenth century to the first half of the seventeenth.
-Understanding and interpreting maps, charts, texts and historical sources.
Transversal skills:
-Working independently with responsibility and initiative, developing capabilities to manage information, organization and planning.
-Applying analytical, critical, logical and creative thinking, demonstrating innovation skills.
The subject will not be taught because it is part of a curriculum in the process of being phased out.
The final grade for the course will be obtained by taking an exam, the date and time of which will be established by the academic authorities of the centre.
It is considered that each student should devote around 150 hours to individual work.
The basic recommendation is to read the general and specialized bibliography provided by the professor together with the programme, but also that more specific bibliography given when presenting each topic in order to obtain a more complete picture than the one that may be drawn in theoretical classes.
-It is also advisable to perform textual analyses, charts, graphs, statistical tables, etc., individually to gain mastery in these areas and a better understanding of the subject content.
-Consultation of historical atlases and dictionaries of historical terms.
-Clarify, by asking questions in tutorials the doubts that may arise during the learning period and also during the resolution of the above mentioned case studies.
For cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions set out in the Regulations for evaluating the academic performance of students and reviewing grades will apply.
Isidro Dubert García
- Department
- History
- Area
- Modern History
- Phone
- 881812617
- isidro.dubert [at] usc.gal
- Category
- Professor: University Professor