Sophister Years 2007-2008

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Contents 1 Sophister Years 1.1 List I 1.2 List II 1.3 List III 2 Previous Sophister Courses

Sophister Years

• Historiography

List I

• Empire and Papacy in the Eleventh Century
• The Archaeology of Medieval Castles and Military Fortifications, 1000-1350
• Medieval Dublin
• Freedom and Authority in Britain and Ireland, 1286-1328
• The Reformation in Europe, 1500-1535 (Cancelled)
• The Elizabethans and their World: Social Change and Cultural Development in England, 1550–1610
• Reform and Rebellion: Ireland, 1782-1803
• French Revolution, 1789-1799
• Murder Trials in Ireland, 1836-1914
• France and the First World War, 1912-1920
• The Weimar Republic
• Ireland in the 1920s and 1930s
• The Politics of National Salvation, Ireland 1957-1976

List II

• Viking Raiders to Crusader Warriors: Scandinavia and Europe, 800-1200
• The English in Medieval Ireland: Perspective, Purpose and Intepretation
• The Military Revolution and Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
• Slavery in American History
• History Writing in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• Colonialism and Culture in South Asia

List III

• The Carolingian Empire
• The Authoritarian Nation State - Germany, 1888-1914
• Medieval Religion, c.1215-1517
• Society and the Sacred in Modern France, 1750-1918
• History and Heritage
• France since 1880: Society and Culture
• Britain and the Second World War: National Survival and the Death of the Empire
• Empires and nations in Central/Eastern Europe from the late 18th to the late 20th century (Poland, Bohemia/Czechoslovakia, the Baltic provinces/countries, Ukraine)
• Popular Culture in Twentieth Century Ireland
• Contemporary Political Theories

Previous Sophister Courses

• Sophister Years 2006-2007
• Sophister Years 2005-2006
• Sophister Years 2004-2005
• Sophister Years 2003-2004
• Sophister Years 2002-2003
• Sophister Years 2001-2002