War and Society in Early Modern Europe
Course Organiser: Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
Weighting: 10 ECTS
Teaching Staff: Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
The course considers the course of the Irish civil wars in their British and European contexts and examines the extent to which warfare served as an engine for political, religious, social and cultural change. A particularly rewarding field for comparative study is the development of laws of warfare: regulations which show evidence of both shared origins and distinct local flavours. The course will draw on a variety of primary documents, visual, literary and historical, and especially on those housed in Trinity and Marsh’s Library. Students will be introduced to a number of online resources: most importantly, Early English Books Online (external).