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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...
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How did the Renaissance - as it occurred in Italy and in other parts of Europe - pioneer a new way of thinking about history itself? Who, exactly, was the typical "Renaissance Man"? Get answers to these and other questions about the Renaissance's powerful fusion of classical and medieval worldviews.
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Between 1450 and 1700, somewhere between 40,000 to 60,000 people were executed on charges of witchcraft. Why did ideas about demons and witches have such an appeal in early modern Europe? How did these beliefs produce a new type of criminal to be targeted by secular and spiritual authorities?
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Welcome to ground zero of religious warfare during the Age of Reformation: The Thirty Years' War, which would engulf most of the European continent. By the end of this lecture, you'll learn how this struggle drew the map of Europe that would exist until the French Revolution.
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The particular conditions of 15th- and 16th-century Italy allowed the popes to augment their power and fashion themselves as rulers. Here, explore papal programs designed to cement Rome as Christendom's true capital (after a century of geographic dislocations) and their architects, including Nicholas V, Pius II, and Sixtus IV.
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Turn the lens on the monarchical rivalries of the Northern Renaissance, which changed the course of Western politics as much as the rivalries in Italy. Focus on the rule of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, the rise of the Tudors in England, and the waxing power of France.
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Renaissance Man can perhaps best be understood as an educational and political ideal, someone as schooled in warfare as he was in classical antiquity. Here, meet three men whose lives and works exemplify different iterations of the Renaissance Man in action: Niccolò Machiavelli, Baldassare Castiglione, and Leon Battista Alberti.
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In this lecture, turn to the other great power players in Renaissance Italy, including the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily and the duchy of Milan. Then, examine the eclipse of the age of the republics by the age of the tyrants: elite families who used cunning to obtain - and maintain - positions of authority.
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Turn now to other European states joining the race for global empire. Consider the developments of three states - the Dutch Republic, Britain, and France - in an age of change, and learn how they helped spell the demise of the Ancien Régime and the birth of the modern world.
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In the face of the slings and arrows of Protestant reformers, the Catholic Church lauded a number of individuals whose commitment to the "true faith" offered a balance to the Reformation that threatened to bury Catholicism. Learn how men and women became exemplars of piety during the Catholic Reformation.
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Turn your attention to various calls for a reformation of faith identifiably shaped by the new learning of the Renaissance and the ideas of Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin. Calvin's ideas traveled on to Scotland, where the Reformation, working in tandem with powerful men, toppled a monarch from the throne.
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Examine the "woman question": the contemporary debate about Renaissance women's abilities and deficiencies. The question, as you'll learn, was really about access to education. Along the way, you'll consider whether we can say women had a renaissance of their own - and why that issue still matters today.
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Return to the critical question that started this entire course: Have we reached the end of the Renaissance? Professor McNabb uses this concluding lecture to reflect on the meaning of the Renaissance for its contemporaries, for subsequent historians like Jacob Burckhardt, and for us in the 21st century.
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Professor McNabb guides you through the intersection of Renaissance values and patronage with the new ways of thinking about the universe brought about by the Scientific Revolution. See how many of the activities and individuals associated with this period exhibit key dynamics of the Renaissance covered in other lectures.
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Turn now to the High Italian Renaissance era of painting, credited with a veritable artistic revolution in the art form. During this time, artists like Leonardo and Michelangelo were celebrities who rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful. Not to be overlooked: the role of women painters, including Artemisia Gentileschi.
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Florence, defined by hierarchy and inequality, has become synonymous with the Italian Renaissance. How did this happen? Here, you will explore the complex political journey of this "most noble" of cities from model republic to six decades of domination by the iconic Medici family, and back again.
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Consider the development of humanist thought in the north, which commingled with the idea of a Christian rebirth and a reordering of society's morals that planted the seeds for the Reformation. Among the inquisitive and critical Christian humanists you'll encounter are Erasmus and Thomas More.
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How did Portugal and Spain set out to build overseas empires? Examine the first round of European expansion in the Americas and the Indian Ocean basin in the broader contexts of the Renaissance. Along the way, follow the journeys and discoveries of explorers like Christopher Columbus and Francisco Pizarro.
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Professor McNabb highlights the many fractures that strengthened the shockwaves Martin Luther created in Christianity - some of which he couldn't foresee or control. Learn the importance of the Anabaptists, the tumult of the German Peasants' War, and why Martin Luther resists easy demonization or lionization.
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