,Early modern Europe: an introduction
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Early modern Europe: an
introduction
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,Early modern Europe: an introduction
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,Early modern Europe: an introduction
About this free course
This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University
course A223 Early modern Europe: society and culture,
1500 to 1780:
www.open.ac.uk/courses/qualifications/details/a223 .
This version of the content may include video, images and
interactive content that may not be optimised for your device.
You can experience this free course as it was originally designed
on OpenLearn, the home of free learning from The Open
University –
www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/early-modern-
europe-introduction/content-section-0
There you’ll also be able to track your progress via your activity
record, which you can use to demonstrate your learning.
Copyright © 2017 The Open University
Intellectual property
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of the Creative Commons Licence v4.0
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