Summary- texts form seminars- Turning Points in Modern European History
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Course
Turning Points in Modern European History
Institution
Universiteit Van Amsterdam (UvA)
The seminar texts are a huge part of the final exam. This summary will help you memorise each text and its main objective. Moreover, it will help you always to be prepared for class.
Middle Ages:
Goody:
Criticism of the Roman legacy. Europeans were not inheritance of Rome but
invented their own antiquity. He refers to the take-over of history by the West.
He is stating that Asia developed parallel to Europe thousands of years ago.
There are variations of civilisations within Eurasia but there is no crude
contracts between the West and East. European history has to be replaced
historiography which takes a more flexible approach to periodisation, which
does not assume a unique European advantage in the pre-modern world.
Blocksman:
The European Middle Age still show a fundamental connection to the present
days, with the expansion and progress in numerous fields in Europe and the
still related to the culture of the Middle Ages. However, the Middle Ages have
also shown decline, acceleration and urbanisation and colonialism were
founded. The foundation of modern Europe lies in the Middle Ages: the
spread of Christianity, the common languages, the formation of territorial
states, urbanisation of regions development of political structures.
Jordanova:
Criteria:
1. Rulers and dynasties - Napoleon
2. Key events - birth of Christ, French Revolution
3. Descriptions of a time period - middle ages
4. Type of government - Communism
5. Cultural style - Baroque
The Vienna Congress:
Vick: in favour of the Vienna Congress; it brought peace and harmony. He
emphasises on the importance and the topic discussed during the congress,
such s religion and nationality, which are widely overlooked. According to him,
the Congress of Vienna is a diplomatic summit convened to settle the future
of Europe. The Congress did not just restore the world and the ‘old
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