Learning objectives, pertaining to the specialisation (ResMA only): The ability to participate in a discussion of the theoretical foundations of the discipline.The ability to provide constructive feedback to and formulate criticism of the work of others and the ability to evaluate the value of such criticism and feedback on one’s own work and incorporate it. ![]() The ability to participate in current debates in the specialisation.The ability to give a clear and well-founded oral and written report on research results in correct English, when required, or Dutch, meeting the criteria of the discipline.The ability to independently set up and carry out an original research project that can make a contribution to existing scholarly debates.The ability to independently formulate a clear and well-argued research question, taking into account the theory and method of the field and to reduce this question to accessible and manageable sub-questions.The ability to analyse and evaluate literature with a view to addressing a particular historical problem.The ability to analyse and evaluate a corpus of sources with a view to addressing a particular historical problem.The ability to independently identify and select sources, using traditional and modern techniques.The ability to independently identify and select literature, using traditional and modern techniques.Course objectives General learning objectives Res-MA students are required to make use of different genres of source material and/or of sources coming from different cultures within Europe in order to use a comparative approach to the subject. For those students not able to read Dutch sources, there is ample source material available in other languages such as Italian, Latin, German, French and English.Īll students will prepare a final paper based on research using original sources that have to be placed within the historiography on the Black Legend. In this course we will concentrate on the Black Legend as it existed within the Early Modern Low Countries, but placing in within a wider European framework. Elements of this image even have its repercussions until today. Classical elements include the politics of King Philip II, the Duke of Alba and his Spanish soldiers, the working of the Spanish Inquisition, and the behaviour of the Spanish in their American colonies. In several European cultures texts were written that perceived the Spanish as both a cruel and intolerant nation. The Spanish Black Legend is probably the most well-known and most persistent enemy-image existing within Early Modern Europe. ![]() The reflection has to be handed in at the start of the first class. The formation of a myth (The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2000), pages 3-124 (A copy of this book will be made accessible in the University Library) Hillgarth, The mirror of Spain, 1500-1700. It consists of a 1,000 word reflection on the reading of: There will be an entry test for this course This course is part of the (Res)MA History Programme.
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