European Cultural History (ECH)

Personification of Continents. Stereotypes or Early Ethnography Sources in the Rijksmuseum Collection Four continents were known in early-modern Europe: America, Europe, Asia and Africa. A popular theme in European art and cultural representation was the imagination of the continents in female figures or personifications displaying or wearing specific attributes ascribed to these continents. By contrasting the continents European artists showed specific presumptions about what it meant t...

This document provides lectures notes about: 1) Lecture 1: The Greek World 2) Lecture 2: Rome and its Empire 3) Lecture 3: Early and high Middle Ages 4) Lecture 4: The high and late Middle Ages 5) Lecture 5: Renaissance 6) Lecture 6: The reformation and counter reformation 7) Lecture 7: War, State formation and Urbanization in Europe 8) Lecture 8: European ‘Discovery’ and expansion c. 9) Lecture 9: Scientific revolution 10) Lecture 10: The age of “modernization”

Samenvatting European Cultural History, incl. Nederlandse aantekeningen.

summary of all lectures with terms explained and most important information in bold