The purpose is to explain some of the most relevant topics of the Modern Age. Outlining the complex problems and historical debats. The course will be composed by two sections. First will be foresee some introductory lessons on chronology and Modern Age concept, on sources and
historiography. Then will be examined some of the most important topics of the period: Explorations, european colonial empires and first“globalization”; Religious Reform and Counter-Reform; the political system of European states; Book and Scientific Revolutions; Baroque Age and the Absolutism; Enlightment, Reforms and Revolutions in the XVIII century.
Then will be analysed some of the newest perspectives in Social
Historiography: such as family and local history, environment and nature, every-day life, the problems of social marginality and poverty, the changing relationships between rural and urban communities and the development of european society in the XV-XVIII cent.