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Programme presentation .

Bibliography

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Renaissance – exploration of the concept.

The English Renaissance.

Reading of C. S. Lewis, “New Learning, New Ignorance”, 1954

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The Renaissance  - the classical model.

C. S. Lewis, “New Learning, New Ignorance”, 1954

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 22/09

The Tudors : the centralisation of power and the rise of nationalism

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 27/09

The religious schism. Protestant Reformation.

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Reading of Thomas More’s Utopia

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04/10

Ideologies from Renaissance to Enlightenment

From the centralisation of the royal power to absolutismo:

The first Stuarts and the Civil War.

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06/10

Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate.

Analysis of Cromwell’s speeches

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 11/10

Hobbes’ s absolutism.

Approach of “On Commonwealth” Leviathan

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 13/10

From Restoration to the Constitutional Monarchy.

Parliamentarism. John Locke’s theory.

Reading of Second Treatise of Government (excerpts)

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Enlightenment and knowledge

Scientific Revolution – from Galileo’s legacy to Newton’s paradigm:

    The scientific societies.

    The French Great Encyclopaedia.

 Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis.

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 20/10

Enlightenment and knowledge

Dominant philosophic thought: rationalism, empiricism and idealism.

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Revisions.

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WRITTEN TEST.

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Feriado/Holiday

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 03/11

Enlightenment: exploration of a concept.

Reading of Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?”.

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 08/11

The building of the British empires the relationship between the metropolis and the colonies.

Adam Smith’s perspective. Reading of excerpts of The Wealth of the Nations.

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Economic models: from mercantilism to liberalism

Reading of excerpts of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of the Nations

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The rise of national identities

American Revolution: causes; from litigation to armed conflict; consequences

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The rise of citizenship

The French Revolution: social, economic and political causes;  the emergence of political parties; internayional impact.

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The rise of national identities.

Reading of excerpts of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man

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The rise of citizenship

The gender question: ftom education to civic and political rights.

Reading of excerpts of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

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Revisions

 01/12

Feriado/Holiday

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06/12

Written test

 08/12

Feriado/Holiday

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 13/12

The Industrial Revolution.

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Literature: fiction and “a slice of reality”: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719