300-400 level courses are on special topics and are more advanced. They often presuppose some basic knowledge in the field and should be more difficult courses than courses at the 1-199 levels. The department is trying to insure that some 400 level courses, although substantially more difficult, are also small in size; they thus may be suitable for graduate students.
HIST 423 The Mediterranean World in the Age of Don Quixote
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
R | SEM
Using as our guides Don Quixote's exploits and Cervantes' life, this seminar will analyze the economic conjunctures, social mutations, religious confrontations, and political conflicts that characterized the Mediterranean world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Based on a close reading of several chapters of the two parts of Don Quixote (published in 1605 and 1615), the seminar will focused on the relations between Cervantes' history and the main transformations and events of his time as well as on the multiple appropriations of his novel. Fernand Braudel's masterpiece, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip the Second, will provide the historical framework to the study of these topics.
