Title from the disc surface. Course No. 3917. 48 lectures (30 min. each). Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-368). Lecturer: Professor Jennifer McNabb, Western Illinois University.
Contents:
Lecture 24. Lecture 1. Renaissance life : Marriage. Lecture 2. Rebirth: Classical values made new -- Lecture 3. The Medieval roots of Italian Renaissance -- Lecture 4. The rise of the Humanists -- Lecture 5. Renaissance Florence: Age of Gold -- Lecture 6. Renaissance Venice: Most serene republic. -- Disc 2: Lecture 7. Renaissance Rome and the Papal states -- Lecture 8. Renaissance Italy's princes and rivals -- Lecture 9. Renaissance man as political animal -- Lecture 10. Women and the Italian Renaissance court -- Lecture 11. Painting in the Early Italian Renaissance -- Lecture 12. Painting in the High Italian Renaissance -- Disc 3: Lecture 13. Italian sculpture, architecture, and music -- Lecture 14. Letters in the Italian Renaissance -- Lecture 15. Renaissance statecraft: a new path -- Lecture 16. European Renaissance monarchies -- Lecture 17. The birth of the Christian Renaissance -- Lecture 18. Northern Renaissance art and music -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Northern Renaissance literature and drama -- Lecture 20. Did women have a Renaissance? -- Lecture 21. Renaissance life : The rural experience -- Lecture 22. Renaissance life: The urban experience -- Lecture 23. Renaissance life : Crime, deviance, and honor -- Lecture 24. Renaissance life : Marriage. Lecture 48. Lecture 25. Renaissance legacy: Burckhardt and beyond. Lecture 26. Renaissance faith: Medieval contexts -- Lecture 27. Renaissance faith: The Papacy -- Lecture 28. Renaissance faith: Religious uniformity -- Lecture 29. Luther: Breaking the Christian consensus -- Lecture 30. Radical reform in Renaissance Europe. Disc 6: Lecture 31. Renaissance and Reformation: Connections -- Lecture 32. English Reformation -- Lecture 33. Catholic Reformations: The road to Trent -- Lecture 34. Catholic Reformations: Spiritual revival -- Lecture 35. Reformation culture: Continuity and change -- Lecture 36. Renaissance war and peace: Diplomacy -- Disc 7: Lecture 37. The French wars of religion -- Lecture 38. The Dutch Revolt -- Lecture 39. The Spanish Armada -- Lecture 40. The Thirty Years' War -- Lecture 41. Renaissance at arms : The military revolution -- Lecture 42. Renaissance and the birth of modern science -- Disc 8: Lecture 43. Renaissance and magic : Witchcraft -- Lecture 44. Renaissance encounters with Islam -- Lecture 45. Renaissance and exploration: Motives -- Lecture 46. Renaissance and exploration: New horizons -- Lecture 47. Early modern power: The new global rivalries -- Lecture 48. Renaissance legacy: Burckhardt and beyond.
Summary:
In the epic 48-lecture course, Renaissance: The Transformation of the West, historian and award-winning professor Jennifer McNabb of Western Illinois University delivers a holistic, comprehensive view of the Renaissance that will show just how impressive and truly influential it was. Guiding you through centuries of exhilarating change in Europe with the knowledge, insights, and discernment of a master scholar, she offers new perspectives on familiar figures and events while focusing on often-unexplored or overlooked areas, such as the role of women in the Renaissance, the daily lives of the rural poor and urban elite, Renaissance home and family life, and the powerful connections between the Renaissance and the Reformation. Here, in one course, is an authoritative, wide-ranging, and multidisciplinary way to experience not jsut one of Europe's Renaissance movements - but all of them.
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