Lectures:

1. Introduction to Introduction to European History. Academic reading and writing

2. History and historiography

3. Ancient World

4. Middle Ages, vol. 1 (barbarian invasions; feudalism and estate system; Medieval city and economy)

5. Middle Ages, vol. 2 (Medieval Church: crusades, heresy, inquisition)

6. Early Modern Era (Renaissance, Humanism and Reformation)

7. Modern Period (from Enlightenment to the French Revolution and birth of nation state)

8. 20th century (world wars; totality; genocide and holocaust)

9. Central Europe

10. Overreaching topics, vol. 1 (Monotheistic religions; economic history of Europe; colonialism and imperialism)

11. Optional presentations, vol. 1

12. Optional presentations, vol. 2

13. Final test

Required readings:

LE GOFF, J. The Birth of Europe. Boston: Blackwell, 2005. ISBN 978-1-4051-5682-0.

McGRATH, A. E. The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. ISBN 978-0-631-22939-1.

EDELSTEIN, D. The Enlightenment: a genealogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-226-18449-4.

HOBSBAWM, E. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848. New York: Mentor, 1962. ISBN 978-0-349-10484-3.

GELLNER, E. Nations and nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. ISBN 978-1-405-13442-2.

Recommended readings:

BEKEMANS, L. The Idea of Europe: Identity-building from a historical perspective. In: A Value-Driven European Future. Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 65-81. ISBN 978-90-5201-890-4.

SZŰCS, J. The three historical regions of Europe, In: John Keane, Civil Society and the State. New European Perspectives. London: Verso 1988, pp. 291-332. ISBN 978-0-860-91203-3.

BAUER, S. W. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-05974-8.

ARMSTRONG, K. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994. ISBN 978-0-345-38456-0.

POUNDS, N. J. G., The Medieval City. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. ISBN 978-0-313-32498-7.

BURKE, P. The Renaissance, Individualism and the Portrait. History of European Ideas 21/3, 1995, pp. 393-400. ISSN 0191-6599.

MAXWELL, A. Typologies and phases in nationalism studies: Hroch’s A-B-C schema as a basis for comparative terminology. Nationalities Papers 38/6, 2010, pp. 865–880. ISSN 0090-5992.

PAXTON, R. O. The Anatomy of Fascism. New York: Vintage Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-400-03391-1.

GERSCHENKRON, A. Economic backwardness in historical perspective: a book of essays. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. ISBN 978-0-674-22600-5.

FERRO, M. Colonization: A Global History. London: Routledge, 2005. ISBN 978-0-415-14008-9.

COFFIN, J. G. et al., Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture, Vol. 1, 14th Edition (New York: Norton, 2002), chapters 10 and 11

http://exodusmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/212834826-Western-Civilizations.pdf

Rietbergen, P., Europe: A Cultural History. London: Routledge, 2005

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A18l83/EuropeACulturalHisto/resources/5.htm

Dawson, Chistopher. The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity. Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 2002

https://archive.org/details/makingofeurope00daws