No question you have to READ two short source excerpts

European History EUH 2030: Mini Paper 1 ASSIGNMENT GUIDE DUE DATE: January 19th, 2019 at 11:59pm via Turnitin on Canvas Mini Paper Prompt: Your task is to describe the sources provided, using specifics, details, and appropriate quotations and citations. This is a descriptive assignment. You do not need to offer an interpretation or opinion about the source for this mini paper. Your basic task is to answer the what, who, when, where, why questions about this source. A good paper will have a clear introduction that leads to the documents being discussed by giving some historical background. Also, describe the main ideas and opinions that its authors present. If you suspect that they have any hidden assumptions, you may wish to reveal these toward the end of your paper as a natural conclusion. Formatting, Writing, and Citation Guidelines: Your paper should be 400 word minimum to 500 word maximum. Your paper must be in Times 12 pt. font double spaced with 1-inch margins. DO NOT use title pages, your name and Panther ID at the top are all I need. You must use correctly formatted footnote citations to indicate which page you are referring to when you quote your sources or when you describe or paraphrase something from another author. A good paper avoids use of the first person, so do not use “I” statements. I know it’s you because it is your name on the paper. Also, avoid contractions. Don’t write don’t, write do not, cannot, did not instead. Contractions are okay in speech and informal writing, but not in something where you want to portray your best writing. Please DO NOT use block quotes, or copy entire sentences or paragraphs from the sources, those are inappropriate citations for a paper of this length. Also, please include a Chicago style bibliography as well, on a separate page from your written assignment, as it is good practice for your later papers. PLEASE refer to the Getting Started Module, as it contains a link to Chicago style citations as well as tips and resources for writing. Source Information Read the following source excerpts available on Canvas in order to write this mini paper:

• Primary Source: The Malleus Maleficarum1 (Latin for “The Hammer of Witches”, or “Hexenhammer” in German) is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches. Written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger and was first published in Germany in 1487, its main purpose was to challenge all arguments against the existence

1 Kramer, Heinrich. Malleus Maleficarum. Nurenberg: Anton Koberger, 1494.

of witchcraft and to instruct magistrates on how to identify, interrogate and convict witches. Selected is a chapter on dealing with the author’s views on women’s alleged inclinations toward witchcraft.

• Secondary Source: Chapter 10 of Luther on Women,2 a book written by two scholars, Susan Karant-Nunn and Merry E. Wiesner.

Rubric and Grading This mini paper will be graded out of 100 points. It will follow the guidelines of the posted EUH 2030 Rubric in Canvas, of course with the understanding that this mini paper does not have a thesis and much analysis or structure, so consider it a simplified grading scale for the purposes of this assignment. Paper Purpose and Historical Skills This assignment is the first step in a multistep assignment, which will culminate in your first formal paper. Your next mini paper will build on this skill by having you look at an analyze another set of documents, with at least one primary and one secondary source. The last part of this multipart assignment, Paper 1, your first full paper, will ask you to basically combine the skill of primary source and secondary source analysis and ask you to make a judgment about the historical narrative you have been presented with so far in the course. Another way of thinking about your first paper could be that it is asking you to support a perspective you have about an outstanding question in history, and support that claim, your thesis, with evidence. The purpose of this assignment is to get you to start writing like a historian by analyzing primary and secondary sources. In many ways, being a historian is like being a detective. You are trying to decode something that may have been written centuries ago and find a basic understanding in it for yourself today. Ideally, you will be able to move beyond being able to merely understand a historical document, to being able to contextualize it. To contextualize means to be able to understand the causes and effects of historical events, compare and contrast historical events over time, and also identify what from the past has changed, and what has stayed relatively the same over time. These skills of observation, analysis, interpretation, and ultimately deduction are what this course seeks to build up in all of you, as this is a skill that translates to any job where the written word and humans intersect, not just in the halls of academia.

2 Karant-Nunn, Susan C., and Merry E. Wiesner. Luther on Women: A Sourcebook. European History After 1450. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.