Renaissance: The Transformation of the West

by Jennifer McNabb

Streaming video, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

940.21

Series

The Great Courses: History (3917)

Collection

Your library

Publication

Great Courses (2018), 48 lectures, 33 minutes each, 376 pages

Description

"While it's easy to get caught up-and, rightfully so-in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full-rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without digging beneath the surface, without investigating the period in terms of its politics, its spirituality, its philosophies, its economics, and its societies. Do just that with these 48 lectures that consider the European Renaissance from all sides, that disturb traditional understandings, that tip sacred cows, and that enlarges our understanding of how the Renaissance revolutionized the Western world. Guiding you through centuries of exhilarating change in Europe with the knowledge, insights, and discernment of a master scholar, Professor McNabb 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, the classical roots of Renaissance thinking, and the powerful connections between the Renaissance and the Reformation. By observing the Renaissance less casually and more critically, you'll uncover insights and connections you can't find in typical narratives that celebrate these remarkable, tumultuous centuries. These lectures are an authoritative, uncompromising, and multidisciplinary way to experience not just one of Europe's Renaissance movements'but all of them."… (more)

Language

English

Original language

English

Local notes

[01] The Spirit of Renaissance [02] Rebirth: Classical Values Made New [03] The Medieval Roots of Italian Renaissance [04] The Rise of the Humanists [05] Renaissance Florence: Age of Gold [06] Renaissance Venice: More Serene Republic [07] Renaissance Rome and the Papal States [08] Renaissance Italy’s Princes and Rivals [09] Renaissance Man as Political Animal [10] Women and the Italian Renaissance Court [11] Painting in the Early Italian Renaissance [12] Painting in the High Italian Renaissance [13] Italian Sculpture, Architecture, and Music [14] Letters in the Italian Renaissance [15] Renaissance Statecraft: A New Path [16] European Renaissance Monarchies [17] The Birth of the Christian Renaissance [18] Northern Renaissance Art and Music [19] Northern Renaissance Literature and Drama [Did Women Have a Renaissance? [20] Did Women Have a Renaissance? [21] Renaissance Life: The Rural Experience [22] Renaissance Life: The Urban Experience [23] Renaissance Life: Crime, Deviance, and Honor [24] Renaissance Life: Marriage [25] Renaissance Life: Home and Hearth [26] Renaissance Faith: Medieval Contexts [27] Renaissance Faith: The Papacy [28] Renaissance Faith: Religious Uniformity [29] Luther: Breaking the Christian Consensus [30] Radical Reform in Renaissance Europe [31] Renaissance and Reformation: Connections [32] English Reformation [33] Catholic Reformations: The Road to Trent [34] Catholic Reformations: Spiritual Revival [35] Reformation Culture: Continuity and Change [36] Renaissance War and Peace: Diplomacy [37] The French Wars of Religion [38] The Dutch Revolt [39] The Spanish Armada [40] The Thirty Years’ War [41] Renaissance at Arms: The Military Revolution [42] Renaissance and the Birth of Modern Science [43] Renaissance and Magic: Witchcraft [44] Renaissance Encounters with Islam [45] Renaissance and Exploration: Motives [46] Renaissance and Exploration: New Horizons [47] Early Modern Power: The New Global Rivalries [48] Renaissance Legacy: Burckhardt and Beyond