Between 1300 and 1650, building on a medieval inheritance,
European thinkers and artists explored the legacy of ancient
Greece and Rome in the cultural movement we call the
Renaissance, and brought together for the final time the two
principal formative traditions of Western civilization: the
Judeo-Christian and the Greco-Roman. Their achievements in
philosophy, pedagogy, literature, political thought, and the
arts are the framework within which modern Western thought will
unfold. This course will investigate the cultural world of the
Renaissance within its social context.
