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SUMMARY QUESTIONS FOR FALL SEMESTER 2001

EUROPEAN DOMINANCE: ACCOUNTING FOR CHANGE

Alister E. McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation.

Charles Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe.

Erika Rummel, The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation.

Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process.

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison.

Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil.

Wayne Te Brake, Shaping History. Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700.

Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down.

C. B. Behrens, Society, Government and the Enlightenment.