Title: Global Early Modern Studies
Location: US
Company: Education
The Global Early Modern Studies concentration builds on existing strengths of the doctoral certificate program in Renaissance Studies, and the MALS concentration in Western Intellectual Tradition. It is also a vital component of re-envisioning our teaching of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. There is at present no Master’s program in the CUNY system devoted to early modern studies.
Skeptical of a traditional view of the period, which would see humanist rediscovery of the classics as vaulting European culture into modernity, with all others catching up as they may, this more international approach considers modernity in broader context. There was no empire in the seventeenth century more powerful than the Ottomans, who posed an enormous obstacle to European commercial aspirations in the Eastern Mediterranean. If we identify modernity with advances in science and rising empiricism, then we must notice that European and Indian observational astronomy run somewhat in parallel in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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