The Council of Trent meeting in Santa Maria Maggiore church, Trent. The Council met from 1545 to 1563 in response to the Protestant Reformation, and has been called the Counter-Reformation..
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This course will examine the origins of Early Modern Europe from the crisis' of Late Medieval Europe, and then chronicle the triumphs and travails of the Renaissance, Reformations, and the Rise of Nation, as well as Age of Reconnaissance. We will seek to comprehend the fundamentally transformative impacts each had upon Europeans and the World. We will survey the political, economic, diplomatic, and socio-religious history of the Early Modern European world so as to better understand the course of Western history and our collective past.
