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The principle goal of the course is to investigate the basic parameters and contours of medieval and early modern urban life in the Habsburg monarchy, the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with some overlaps with Italy, France and Netherlands. The argumentation revolves around the idea that Central European urban societies were confronted with five qualitatively new phenomena that are perceived by most historians as symptoms or agents of political, economic, social and cultural transformations on the way from the Middle Ages to Modernity, from medieval community into modern urban society. These phenomena involved, above all: The early modern urbanisation, Socially, religiously and culturally diversified migration, Reformation, Early modern state building and Large-scale structural shifts in the European economy. 

This course will be taught be prof. Jaroslav Miller. To sign up for this course please contact Mr. Marek Sekanina (marek.sekanina@upol.cz)