Class Meeting Times: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11:30AM-12:20PM

Description of the Course:From 1300-1550 Europe experienced a period of great creativity and innovation in the arts, literature and politics. Historians have usually referred to this period as the Renaissance. We will begin the course by looking at the birth of the Renaissance in the Italian city states and follow the spread of this cultural movement into France and England. Among the topics we will discuss: society and politics in Florence and Venice, artists and patrons, women and family life, statecraft and Machiavelli, Thomas More's Utopia and Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus.

This course is taught by: Professor Silvia Shannon

Saint Anselm College, a Benedictine, Catholic, Liberal Arts College
100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, New Hampshire 03102

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