Common Tragedy: Catastrophe, Loss, and Ambition in Early Modern Europe

3 credits · Undergraduate

Modern consciousness can be defined by new visions of death, loss, and ambition. As modernity emerges and "matures", so do writings on catastrophe. Writings from the catastrophic fourteenth-century, the seventeenth-century plague, and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake provide insight into shifts and continuities between late medieval and modern senses of the self. EXCLUSIONS: EMSP 3630.03 for the 2006/07 academic year only FORMATS: Lecture