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Constable, Medieval Iberia, 217-222

There are questions to guide your readings (you do not have to turn in your answers) in the “Reading Questions” tab […]

Welcome to the course blog for HIS 350/550, Golden Age Spain, spring semester.  Please use the tabs at the top of the page to locate course information.

Where does the case of Ireland fit into Games’ larger argument about England’s imperial expansion?  Why does the book end with the chapter on Ireland?  Be as specific as possible.

Explore the similarities and differences between the circulation of scientific information (Harkness, Jewel House) and information about travel and empire (Games).

How does Chapter 6 fit into Games’ larger argument about the English empire in this period?  Why do we need to understand the failure of Madagascar?

Scott notes that historians of war, high politics, and diplomacy often question the “utility of gender in their work” (1073).  She provides some of her own examples of why gender has utility for these […]

Put the following in your own words:

“gender is a constitutive element of social relationships based on perceived differences between the sexes” (1067)

On what grounds does Scott reject the usefulness of Marxist theory for gender studies?

Joan Scott points out the limits of patriarchal theory, suggesting that “a theory that rests on the single variable of physical difference poses problems for historians.”  What problems does it pose?

How might you fit Duffy’s visual evidence into Scribner’s definition of the epistemology of the “sacramental gaze” (116)?

Explain this quotation in your own words: The real division was epistemological, between […]

A striking difference between late medieval and Reformation piety, which go far toward explaining the latter’s appeal, is that, whereas the late medieval church measured lay by clerical life, the Reformation went […]

In your own words, what is historiography?

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I have revised the point distribution for the midterm to be the following:

Part One, essay question: 50 points

Part Two: 30 points

Part Three: 20 points

As a discipline, history uses the Chicago Manual of Style (or Turabian) for citations (notes and bibliography).  A link that provides guidance for formatting your citations is available at http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch10_s1-0001.html Please note that for each category (e.g. book, journal article, etc) there are instructions…[Read more]

“blah, blah, blah” quote from Gerda Lerner

The (last!) set of reading questions have been posted under the relevant tab above.