2021-2022 Catalog

HST-312 Renaissance and Reformation Europe

Explores the intellectual and cultural developments of the Renaissance, and of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in their social and political contexts. Topics include: Humanism, the rise of the city-state; art, and science; changes in family and social life; the causes of the Reformation (intellectual, social, technological); Calvinists, Lutherans, and Radical Reformers; Counter-Reformation and its political consequences; the Wars of Religion.

Credits

4

Core Curriculum

  • Social and Intellectual History

Offered

Ocasionally