. Courses 2020-21

Courses 2021-22

Renaissance Studies, Courses 2021-22

Art History

 

Fall

 

ARTH 17121 The Art of Leonardo da Vinci

Charles Cohen

 

Winter

 

ARTH 22266 / 32266 Witchcraft and the Cultural Imagination

Tamara Golan & Noel Blanco Mourelle

 

ARTH 22815 / 32815 Medici Florence

Lia Markey

 

Spring

 

ARTH 14810 Devotion – Dissent – Disenchantment? Art in the Age of the Protestant Reformation

Tamara Golan

 

ARTH 17530 The Art of Raphael and the Idea of the Renaissance

Charles Cohen

 

ARTH 17550 Renaissance Facades: Architecture in the Age of Representation

Dario Donetti

 

 

English

 

Fall

 

ENGL 15430 The Origins of Utopia and Utopian Literature

Ryan Campagna

 

ENGL 16500 Shakespeare I: Histories and Comedies

Noémie Ndiaye

 

ENGL 23304 The Stage and the City: Performance and Daily Life in Renaissance London

Sarah-Gray Lesley

(This course is part of the 2021 London: British Literature and Culture study abroad program)

 

ENGL 56200 Early Modern Critical Race Studies

Noémie Ndiaye

 

Winter

 

ENGL 16600 Shakespeare II: Tragedies and Romances

Ellen MacKay

 

Spring

 

ENGL 12720 Inventing Consciousness: Literature, Philosophy, Psychology

Timothy Harrison

 

ENGL 40701 Early Modern Natality

Timothy Harrison
 

 

History

 

Fall

 

HIST 11301 Global British Empire to 1784: War, Commerce, and Revolution

Steven Pincus

 

HIST 29535 Witches, Shrews, and Whores: Transgressive Women in the Early Modern Period

Stephanie Painter

 

Spring

 

HIST 12203 Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings

Ada Palmer

 

HIST 42303 Renaissance Humanism

Ada Palmer

(Open to undergraduates by consent)

 

 

NELC

 

Fall

 

NEHC 30852 The Ottoman World in the Age of Suleyman the Lawgiver-1

Cornell Fleischer

 

Winter

 

NEHC 20602 Islamic Thought and Literature II (ca. 950 – 1750)

Franklin Lewis

 

 

Spring

 

NEHC 20840 / 30840 Radical Islamic Pieties 1200-1600

Cornell Fleischer

 

 

Philosophy

 

Fall

 

PHIL 29905/39905 17th Century Political Philosophy: Hobbes and Spinoza

Daniel Moerner

 

Winter

 

PHIL 26000 History of Philosophy II: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Daniel Moerner

 

Political Science

 

Winter

 

PLSC 20800 Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy

Nathan Tarcov

 

Religious Studies

 

Spring

 

RLST 26316 Medical Innovation and Religious Reform in Early Modernity

Mark Lambert

 

 

Romance Languages and Literatures—French

 

Fall

 

FREN 21122 Théâtre et relations internationales au XVIIème siècle

Amine Bouhayat

 

FREN 25000 / 35000 Molière

Larry Norman

 

Spring

 

FREN 25622 Narratives of Travel and Conquest, 12th-16th Centuries

Jacqueline Victor

 

Romance Languages and Literatures—Italian

 

Fall

 

ITAL 33501 Boccaccio Minore

Justin Steinberg

 

Winter

 

ITAL 22722 Magic, Madness, and Marvels: Renaissance Epic Literature from the Page to the Stage

Darren Kusar

 

ITAL 23000 / 33001 Machiavelli and Machiavellism

Rocco Rubini

 

Spring

 

ITAL 23502 / 33502 Boccaccio’s “Decameron”

Justin Steinberg

 

Romance Languages and Literatures—Spanish

 

Fall

 

SPAN 21310 / 31310 Golden Age Poetry. Theory and Practice of Lyric Reading

Miguel Martínez

 

SPAN 26210 / 36210 Witches, Sinners, and Saints

Larissa Brewer-García

 

Winter

 

SPAN 21705 Iberian Literatures and Cultures: Medieval and Early Modern

Noel Blanco Mourelle

 

SPAN 22266 / 32266 Witchcraft and the Cultural Imagination

Noel Blanco Mourelle & Tamara Golan

 

Spring

 

SPAN 24202 Don Quixote

Frederick de Armas