Please see below for the wide range of modules with an Early Modern theme.

NB. these are the modules for 2018-19 and are subject to change. The main Dept of History pages give further information and guidance about choosing modules.

 
Undergraduate First Year Modules

• AM101 Latin America: Themes and Problems
• AM102 North America: Themes and Problems
• HI127 The Medieval World
• HI174 The Enlightenment

Undergraduate Second Year Modules

• AM204 Early American Social History
• HI2A7 A Global History of Food
• HI145 Georgian Britain
• HI293 Galleons and Caravans: Global Connections, 1300-1800
• HI203 The European World, 1500-1750
• HI209 English Social History, 1500-1700
• HI242 Germany in the Age of the Reformation
• HI254 British Parlimentary and Electoral Politics, 1688-1832
• HI255 Religion and Religious Change in England
• HI266 Deviance and Non-Conformity
• HI267 The Renaissance in Europe
• HI271 Politics, Literature and Ideas in Stuart England
• HI274 Renaissance Research Project
• HI275 The British Problem: Empire, Conflict and National Identities, 1558-1714

Undergraduate Final Year Modules

• AM407 Slavery and Slave Life in the American South, 1619-1865
• AM411 Histories of Gender in the Americas: Ladies, Wenches, Hombres and Machos
• AM417 Slavery, Memory and Memorialisation
• HI31A Invisible Worlds: Belief and the Supernatural in Post-Reformation Britain
• HI31B Facing the Other: European Encounters with the New World, 1500-1650
• HI31C China Encounters the Wider World
• HI31F Treasure Fleets of the Eastern Oceans
• HI31G The Birth of Modern Society? Britain 1660-1720
• HI31R The Elizabethan Reformation
• HI31S Print, Knowledge and Power in Early Modern Italy
• HI31V A History of Globalization, 1750-2050
• HI312 Radicalism in the English Revolution, 1640-1660
• HI320 Florence and Venice in the Renaissance
• HI387 History and Literature of the Self, 1700 to the Present Day
• HI388 Religious Conflict and Civil War in France, c.1560-1600
• HI390 The World of the Tavern in Early Modern Europe
• HI391 Gender in Europe, 1350-1650
• HI395 Knowledge, Nature and Power
• (code tba) The Grand Tour and British Overseas Travel 1640-1750

 

All undergraduate single-honours History students are required to take the early modern module 'HI203 The European World' in their second year of study, and both single and joint honours students must choose at least one early module option module to study in their second year.

 

Undergraduate single-honours History students who choose the Renaissance and Modern History' stream must take 'HI127 The Medieval World' in their first year and 'HI320 Florence and Venice in the Renaissance' in their third year. The latter module is taught during a term spent in Venice.

In addition, HI3J3 Arts and Society in Early Modern Europe' is only open to students in this stream.