Winter Term 2016 Culture and Power in Renaissance Europe - 1331 - HIST 260 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor Catalog Description : A study of intellectual, artistic, and religious innovations and their relation to dynamic political and social transformations between roughly 1350 and 1550. Beginning with the concepts of rediscovery, rebirth, and renewal as expressed in the writings of Renaissance Humanists, the course will explore how a new cosmology informed changes in artistic expression, political theory and practice, production and commerce, overseas expansion, popular ritual and spectacle, gender relations, and understandings of the self. (E) PREREQUISITES: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor Attributes: GER Humanities Div, 200-399 Foundation/Gateway Crs
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