Course Introduction

Dr. Andrew Plaa
atplaa@aol.com
(212) 854-5940
Office hours: Tues. & Wed. 3-4pm
Office location: 415B Lehman
Jennifer Spohrer
jls300@columbia.edu
Office hours: By Appointment
Office location: Location
Class Meetings:
Tue, Thur,1:10-2:25pm
Class location
304 Barnard Hall

 

This course deals with the time period which historians have saddled with the rather awkward name of "early modern". As the name suggests, this is a period of transition between the Middle Ages on the one hand and the Modern period on the other. The primary goals of this course are to explore the developments that distinguished the Early Modern period from the Middle Ages, and which also laid the groundwork for modern era.