220127 Climate, Environment, and the Human Body in Early Modern Thought (K) (SoSe 2024)
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This course is the historical contextualization to "African Slavery and 'Tropicality' in the Americas, 1500-1888" (Course No. 22126). It is an interactive part lecture, part seminar style course in which we will look at how the human body, health, the “environment”, and climate were perceived in early modern European thought (i.e. roughly 1500-1800). The course thus bridges the research fields of medical, cultural, environmental and climate history as well as the more recent field of the history of the body. Once we understand how these different elements converged in and were entangled in humoral pathology, it will also be more evident to understand how "climate" could become an argument for the enslavement of African people in the transatlantic colonial context – the topic of the seminar following this contextualization.
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Gute Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift! Der Kurs findet komplett in Englisch statt und die Forschungsliteratur ist ebenfalls in Englisch.
Good knowledge of written and spoken English is essentail as we'll be reading English research literature and discussing in English.
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For international (and German) Students: Of course there's always the option to ask questions in Spanish, French or (for the Germans) German, and to write your term papers in these languages, but the general language of conversation is English.
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- Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History
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