070077 UE Guided Reading Austrian History 1 - Social and economic consequences of the "General Crisis" (2022W)

The course revisits the seventeenth-century crisis and seeks to introduce students to a comparative perspective on the long-lasting effects of profound societal changes that took place in the period. Focusing on a critical reading of recent scholarship that tackles various issues related to economic, religious, and demographic changes in the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century, read in close conjunction with various contemporary primary texts, the course aims at transcending the traditional disciplinary boundaries by presenting to students and engaging them in an active transimperial discourse on the impact of the ”General Crisis”.