HIST 340 - The Renaissance

Credit Hours: 3

This course examines movements of artistic, intellectual, renewal that first developed in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, spread throughout western Europe after 1500, and were together named “The Renaissance.” The course will examine the Renaissance in its birthplace, the hustling, aggressive communes (city-states) of Trecento and Quattrocento Italy, giving special attention to the republic of Florence. It will consider the Renaissance in its social, economic, and political contexts, and expose its roots in medieval high culture and in the Commercial Revolution of 1000-1350.