SEMESTER AT SEA COURSE SYLLABUS Voyage: Short-term 2013 Discipline: History HIEU 3559: Northern Europe between Reform and Revolution Upper Division Faculty Name: Duane Osheim Pre-requisites: A previous history course COURSE DESCRIPTION Northern Europe in the early modern period endured wars, plagues, witch panics and calamitous religious change. We will explore the history of the parts of the Baltic and North Sea we will be visiting using the techniques of "Microhistory." Microhistorians concentrate on the seeming minor events of individual lived experience as a way to come to a fuller understanding historical change. We will look carefully at the world of individual soldiers and sailors, witches, peasants and merchants who lived and worked in the area. Students will be able to analyze the process of historical change and to see how it transformed the Baltic world between 1500 and 1800. COURSE OBJECTIVES The course is designed to introduce students to Early Modern European history and the special place of northern Europe in that history. Secondarily, we will use the context of Early Modern Europe to learn the techniques of microhistory, a technique of historical analysis based on careful and close analysis of particular phenomena. REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS AUTHOR: Euan Cameron, ed TITLE: Early Modern Europe PUBLISHER: Oxfprd University Press ISBN #: 10-0198207603 DATE/ EDITION: 2001 TOPICAL OUTLINE OF COURSE C1 May 28 Observing Triffles Microhistory and the Baltic World; Pagden, Prologue in Early Modern Europe, 1-28 C2 May 29 Peasants and Reformation Europe: Robert Darnton, Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose in The Great Cat Massacre, 9-74; Peter 1
Blickle, The Twelve Articles, in The Revolution of 1525, 195-201; and Rowland, Conditions of Life, in Early Modern Europe, 31-62. C3. June 1 Religion and Reform, Cameron, Power of the Word, in Early Modern Europe, 63-101. Quiz The Hanseatic League (film) C4. June 4 Navies and Ship Life: Vasa. A Swedish Warship, Frederick Hocker, 25-50; Gunn, War, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe, 102-34. (Establish our work groups) June 5= Maritime Life in the Baltic: A visit to the Vasa Museum at Djurgården in Stockholm. C5. June 7 Villages and Peasant Culture: Arthur Imhof, The Little World of Johannes Hooss, in Lost Worlds, 11-35; Kati Parppei, Pagans of Darkness, Scandinavian Journal of History 35 (2010) 135-55; and Finnish Folk Poetry. Epic ed and tr Matti Kuusi, et al. 81. Death on the Prowl II, 352-53; 101. The Mother, 402-404; 111. The Suitors from the Sea, 425-26; 116. The Useless Bridegroom, 437-38; 129. The Boy and the Cloud, 474-75. C6. June 10 Witches in Northern Europe: Raisa Toivo, The Widow Farmer, Witch, in Witchcraft and Gender in early Modern Society, 21-75; Early Modern European Witchcraft, ed Ankarloo & Henningsen, 257-85; Quiz 7. June 13 War and the Baltic Empires: Stewart Oakley, The Baltic during the Thirty Years War, in War and Peace in the Baltic, 55-77; Grimmelshausen, Simplicius Simplicissimus. (ca 60 pages in abridgment); Black, Warfare, Crisis and Absolutism, in Early Modern Europe, 206-31. 8. June 14 Absolutism and Northern Courts: King Frederick II, Benevolent Despotism, in The Portable Enlightenment Reader, 452-5; 1-95; Briggs, Embattled Faiths, 171-205; and Scott, Europe Turns East, in Early Mod ern Europe, 298-344. 9. June 17 The Enlightenment: Hampson, The Enlightenment, in Early Modern Europe, 265-97; Riley, A Widening Market in Consummer Goods, in Early Modern Europe, 233-64; and Kant, What is Enlightenment?. Research Report Due in Class 10 June 20 Revolution and the Northern World: Blanning, The Old Order Transformed, in Early Modern Europe, 345-75; Jonathan Israel, The Dutch Democratic Revolution, in The Democratic Enlightenment, 883-936. 2
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FIELD WORK Twenty percent of the grade for the course will be based on our visit to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. Our object will be to write microhistories based on thorough observation. Through an intense analysis of the surviving artifact, students will be able to write their own microhistory of maritime life in the Baltic World. The Vasa Museum in Stockholm <http:/ / www.vasamuseet.se/ en/ > houses the remains of the ship, the Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. When it was raised in 1961 it was found to be completely intact, right down to the beer mugs in the galley! The museum contains over 22,000 artifacts plus exhibits on how the ship was built, how it was designed to fight, and how it sank. We will divide into work groups while visiting the site, so that students can work together to formulate questions and to initiate their researches analyzing the remains just as any historian or archeologist would. We will read about the Vasa before visiting the museum. There will be a short film and a guided introduction to the museum and its holdings. Students will then investigate those aspects of the museum most importa nt for their research interests. We will gather together as a group about lunchtime to talk about what students have found and to clarify what else they need to know. Then the study groups will return to the museum to follow up on the issues we have discussed. After we return to the ship, students will write research reports of up to 8 pages on what that they have discovered in their work at the museum and in their subsequent reading about the Vasa and naval life in the Early Modern Period. The reports will be due in class on C-9 (June 17). When the report is turned in, I will also ask each member of the workgroup (with whom the students visited the museum and which whom they discussed what they found) to evaluate the contributions made to the discussions by the other members of the workgroup. This will be a simple numerical grade which will be explained in class before the due date. METHODS OF EVALUATION / GRADING RUBRIC Quizzes 30% Research Report 20% Class participation 10% Research Participation 10% Final Exam 30% RESERVE LIBRARY LIST 1. Hedin, Marika (ed.), 2011 Vasa - The Story of a Swedish Warship ISBN: 917424115x 2. Hocker, Fred, 2011 4
Vasa - A Swedish Warship Publisher: Medstroms Bokforlag (November 30, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 9173291013 ISBN-13: 978-9173291019 3. Soop, Hans, 1992 The Power and the Glory - the Sculptures of the Warship Wasa ISBN: 9174022369 4. Landström, Björn, 1980 (Out of Print?) The Royal Warship Vasa ISBN: 9186448129 5. Hocker, Fred (ed.), 2006 (This may be out of print) Vasa 1 - The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship of 1628 ISBN: 9789197465908 I have listed the information I have on these books. The last two are out of print and may be out of our price range. The others should be in UVa s library if they are not already. ELECTRONIC COURSE MATERIALS AUTHOR: Robert Darnton ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE:The Great Cat Massacre DATE: 2009 PAGES: 9-74 AUTHOR: Peter Blickle ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: The Twelve Articles, JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: The Revolution of 1525 DATE: 1981 PAGES: 195-201. AUTHOR: Frederick Hocker ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: Vasa. A Swedish Warship DATE: PAGES: 25-50; 5
AUTHOR: Arthur Imhof ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: The Little World of Johannes Hooss JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: Lost Worlds DATE: 1996 PAGES: 11-35 AUTHOR: Kati Parppei ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: Pagans of Darkness, JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: Scandinavian Journal of History 35 DATE: (2010) PAGES: 135-55 AUTHOR: Matti Kuusi, et al. ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE:Finnish Folk Poetry. Epic DATE: 1977 PAGES: 81. Death on the Prowl II, 352-53; 101. The Mother, 402-404; 111. The Suitors from the Sea, 425-26; 116. The Useless Bridegroom, 437-38; 129. The Boy and the Cloud, 474-75. AUTHOR: Raisa Toivo ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: The Widow Farmer, Witch JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: Witchcraft and Gender in early Modern Society DATE: 2008 PAGES: 21-75 AUTHOR: Bengt Ankarloo & Gustav Henningsen ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: Early Modern European Witchcraf DATE: 2001 PAGES: 57-85 AUTHOR: Stewart Oakley ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: The Baltic during the Thirty Years War JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: War and Peace in the Baltic 6
DATE: 1992 PAGES: 55-77 AUTHOR: Grimmelshausen ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: Simplicius Simplicissimus DATE: PAGES: Online Resource AUTHOR: Frederick II ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: Benevolent Despotism JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: The Portable Enlightenment Reader DATE: 1995 PAGES: 452-5 AUTHOR: Emmanuel Kant ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: What is Enlightenment JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: DATE: PAGES: Online resource AUTHOR: Jonathan Israel ARTICLE/ CHAPTER TITLE: The Dutch Democratic Revolution JOURNAL/ BOOK TITLE: The Democratic Enlightenment DATE: 2011 PAGES: 883-936. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES The Hanseatic League [videorecording] : the travels of Hildebrand Veccinghusen Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences [distributor], c1998. HONOR CODE Semester at Sea students enroll in an academic program administered by the University of Virginia, and thus bind themselves to the University s honor code. The code prohibits all acts of lying, cheating, and stealing. Please consult the Voyager s Handbook for 7
further explanation of what constitutes an honor offense. Each written assignment for this course must be pledged by the student as follows: On my honor as a student, I pledge that I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment. The pledge must be signed, or, in the case of an electronic file, signed [signed]. 8