Reformations in Europe

Objectives and Content:

The course provides an overview of the history of Protestant Reformation and its long-term consequences, with a focus on selected European regions (mainly East-Central and South-Eastern Europe, and the Nordic countries), processes denominational formation, institutionalization, the development of national identities) and concepts (confessionalization, religious tolerance, ethno-religious communities). The course also aims to offer an introduction into the various approaches and currents in Reformation historiography.

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The student shall by the end of the course have gained the following learning outcome defined in knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge:

The student

• has a general knowledge of European Reformation history and its long-term consequences, with a focus on the regions mentioned above; a general knowledge of central processes and concepts connected to the Reformation; a general knowledge of major currents in Reformation historiography

Skills:

The student

• has the capability of analyzing and drawing conclusions of one's own in connection with complex themes
• has the capability of producing a text in accordance with the relevant rules for academic writing.

General competence:

The student

• has the ability of working with larger amounts of material within a limited time period, and the ability of synthesizing and presenting it