Modern History of Europe (20078)
Degree/study:Grade in Humanities
Year: 3rd.-4th
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication:
Teaching language or languages: catalan
Teaching Staff: Jaume Torras Elias
1. Presentation of the subject
With the subtitle Moors and Jews in Christian Europe (15th-19th centuries), the course presents a view of this period centered on the relation between the Christian majority and non-Christian minorities. Critical moments in this relation are scrutinized, paying special attention to subjects such as: power and the management of minorities; religion and politics in the birth of modern Europe; difference regarded as a threat; rebelliousness, resistance and adaptation; citizenship and the "Jewish question"
2. Competences to be attained
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General competences |
Specific competences |
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- Capacity to deal with information from different sources, which might be contradictory, and to synthesise using sound arguments.
- Capacity to propose explanations for very general processes which have different manifestations in different moments and territories. |
- Capacity to evaluate and order the different factors which have shaped the particular heterophobia in the ideology that has impregnated the European discourses about difference in religion and culture.
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3. Contents
TheJews of Europe
o Who were, the Jews?
o From Jews to "the Jew": the creation of a stereotype
The destruction of Sefarad
o From the forced conversions to the 1492 decrees
o "New" Christians, new problems
Mudejars, Moriscos... all of them "Moors"
o From mudéjares to moriscos
o Revolts, dispersions, expulsion
The "German" Jews (Ashkenazi Jews)
o The world of Yiddish, the shtetl...and pogroms
o Court Jews (Hofjuden)
Resistance and adaptation
o Messianisms
o Haskalah: a Jewish Enlightenment
The civil emancipation of Jews
o The French Revolution and the "Jewish question"
o The Jews in a Europe of nations
· Anti-Semitisms
o Judeophobia and Islamophobia: just "popular" prejudices?
o A reactionary tradition: the universal Jewish conspiracy
*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.
4. Assessment
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5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
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5.2. Complementary bibliography
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5.3. Teaching resources
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6. Metodology
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7. Planning of activities
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