HIST 5090 - The Renaissance Graduate

Credit Hours 3
Dual Listed: HIST 4090
Description: The course begins with the cultural developments in Italy in the fourteenth century known as humanism. Then it covers the influence of humanism in literature, the arts, the sciences, religion and government. Finally, it
covers the Renaissance Papacy of the Borgias, Italian politics during the late 14 to16th centuries, and the Northern Renaissance with particular emphasis upon intellectual and political currents in the kingdoms of
England and France, and in the Holy Roman Empire