The Renaissance, 1300-1600
21H.311 · History · Undergraduate · Fall 2004
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
The “Renaissance” as a phenomenon in European history is best understood as a series of social, political, and cultural responses to an intellectual trend which began in Italy in the fourteenth century. This intellectual tendency, known as humanism, or the <em>studia humanitatis</em>, was at the heart of developments in literature, the arts, the sciences, religion, and government for almost three hundred years. In this class, we will highlight the history of humanism, but we will also study rel…
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