With this also comes the ambition to understand the period on its own terms, rather than seeking the origins of the modern world in the past.
Historians at the Department of History examine many of the period’s most important transformative processes; state building and the Reformation, globalization and commercialization. Historians also focus on distinctive characteristics of the period, such as migration, the crises of the seventeenth century caused by war and cold climate, as well as the great significance of religion in society and culture. Thereby, there is a strong interest at the University both for people’s everyday experiences and the large processes that have shaped them.
Scholars at the Department of History organize the Early Modern History Seminar. The seminars can be found in the Department's calendar.
