Research Seminar Renaissance Studies I: The Renaissance. An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course goals

After finishing this course, you have:

• acquired an interdisciplinary perspective on the cultural history of early modern Europe in a global context
• enhanced your research skills both in terms of
  1. knowledge of current debates and of
  2. analysis of primary sources
• developed your writing and presentation skills.

Content

The Renaissance is both a classic and controversial part of European history. Although historians have struggled to define and understand the phenomenon, few would deny that the term reflects a major development in the cultural history of premodern Europe within a global context. This course, the core research seminar of the Renaissance Studies track in AMRS, offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the phenomenon, exploring artistic, literary, intellectual and political developments and their interaction between 1300-1700. While doing so, the course also offers a birds-eye introduction to the extant scholarship in the field of Renaissance Studies, from Jacob Burckhardt's seminal Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien to a wide range of contemporary approaches, including Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age. 
 

Additional information

This is Research Seminar 1 of the Renaissance Studies Track (RMA AMRS).