Paper #3 Due for Professor Coolidge:  (5-7 pages)

Sources:  This paper does not involve any outside research.  Your paper must use the following sources:  Inquisitorial Lives by Richard Kagan and Abigail Dyer, The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis, Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso, Malleus Maleficarum by Kramer and Sprenger, and at least three of the documents we have read from Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History by John Cowans.  Your paper may (but does not have to) use any of Dr. Wright’s sources also.

Choose ONE of the following topics:

1.  Analyze early modern European violence.  Your paper should discuss what kinds of violence existed in early modern Europe, which groups promoted or suffered from this violence, and what purpose that violence served in early modern culture and society.  

OR  

2.  Analyze gender in early modern Europe.  How was gender defined?  What role did gender play in the religious, social, cultural, and political life of early modern Europe? Did the early modern European ideas about gender restrict or liberate early modern men and women?  Why?

Due date: November 24