ROMS 3620 - [Culture of the Later Renaissance]

(crosslisted) ARTH 3420, COML 3620, FREN 3620, RELST 3620
(HB) (CA-AS)

Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

W. Kennedy, K. Long.

This course explores networks of culture and power that develop over the course of the sixteenth century, from the beginning of the Reformation to the Wars of Religion that swept through the continent. We will examine this period through the lenses of several disciplines: history, history of science, art history, literature, music. Guest lecturers will include professors from all of these fields, and authors and artists to be studied will include: Luther, Marguerite de Navarre, Michelangelo, Ambroise Paré, Shakespeare, and Monteverdi.