Week 21
Week 21: Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Renaissance in France: Francis I & Guillaume Budé
The two men pictured here are central to this week's study, since it is during the lifetime of King Francis I, that France engages fully with the ideas and artistic achievements of the Italian Renaissance. Budé was the intellectual teacher for the King on those educational ideas that mattered. His influence would help to change Medieval France into Renaissance France. One such idea was a college that would prepare young French students with a knowledge of Latin and Greek (Hebrew too) and the cultural heritage of Rome and Greece. In other words, Budé's idea about the College of France (which the King founded as recommended by Budé) was the very core of all modern ideas about an education in the humanities before graduate school (Medical, Legal, or Business). From 1500 to 2000 most colleges would have agreed and would have provided, until recently, exactly this humanistic education that Budé recommended.
RECOMMENDED READING:
J. R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. This study of the whole Renaissance period in all of Europe was the final masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the Early Modern period. John Hale was working on this book when he suffered a debilitating stroke. But his wife, Sheila Hale, and other scholars finished the book for publication and we are all enriched by its availability. It is in print, but you might also look at used copies of the original quality paperback. This book will serve us for the whole year-long course. It is especially useful for Winter and Spring Quarters.
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
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Week 22: Tuesday, April 4, 2017
The Renaissance in France: Italian Artists in France
The chateau above is Chambord. It is the single best example of the power of Italian Renaissance art in France. It is very possibly the idea of Leonardo da Vinci who lived in Amboise as the guest of King Francis I in the last years of his life. That Leonardo would choose France for his last years, tells us of the attraction that the northern kingdom now held for Italians. Leonardo was the most celebrated Italian painter of the time. His painting of the Last Supper in Milan, was now the most famous painting anywhere in Europe. Did he plan this fabulous chateau with Francis? If he did, and I think he did, then it remains to this day the best example of the enduring power of Renaissance classicism, the same architectural style that would soon be described in detail in the great book by Andrea Palladio published in Venice in 1570, the single most influential book on architecture ever published.
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Week 23: Tuesday, April 11, 2017
The Renaissance in Spain: Ferdinand and Isabella
The tomb above is the tomb sculpted for the burial of the beloved son of Ferdinand and Isabella. Juan, Prince of Asturias, the future of the united nation of Spain, had died in 1997. And here in this monastery, Domenico Fancelli from Florence, carved this magnificent tomb using all the knowledge and skill that had been accumulated in Renaissance Florence. Later he also created the great tombs for Ferdinand and Isabella in Granada.
RECOMMENDED READING:
J. R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. This study of the whole Renaissance period in all of Europe was the final masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the Early Modern period. John Hale was working on this book when he suffered a debilitating stroke. But his wife, Sheila Hale, and other scholars finished the book for publication and we are all enriched by its availability. It is in print, but you might also look at used copies of the original quality paperback. This book will serve us for the whole year-long course. It is especially useful for Winter and Spring Quarters.
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
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Week 24: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
The Renaissance in Spain: Women
In the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century, the definition of a good life for a woman changed. The Renaissance produced a whole new idea about what was the right role for a woman. Spain produced one of the most remarkable women of the age: Queen Isabella of Castile. Isabella was an extraordinary woman ruler. She brought the warring factions of Castile together and with the help of her husband Ferdinand from Aragon, she united all of Spain. But her achievement was only more extraordinary when you realize that her daughters learned what their mother taught them and they too went on to important roles in various European courts.
RECOMMENDED READING:
J. R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. This study of the whole Renaissance period in all of Europe was the final masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the Early Modern period. John Hale was working on this book when he suffered a debilitating stroke. But his wife, Sheila Hale, and other scholars finished the book for publication and we are all enriched by its availability. It is in print, but you might also look at used copies of the original quality paperback. This book will serve us for the whole year-long course. It is especially useful for Winter and Spring Quarters.
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
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Week 25: Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Renaissance Man: Emperor Charles V
The portrait of Charles V that you see at the left was painted by Titian and is currently on view in the Prado in Madrid. Charles V (and also at the same time King Carlos I of Spain) was the single most important, the most powerful, the most dominant personality of the sixteenth century in Europe. Charles lived from 1500 to 1558 and thus he dominated the whole first half of the century and his influence continued through the rest of the century through the person of his son King Philip II who was his student in the intricacies of 16th century government and followed his policies loyally. Charles's biography is the story of someone who grew up in many states and using many languages, but who in the last years of his life became more and more Spanish. He became the most elegant, the most powerful and the best educated Renaissance Man of the century.
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
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Week 26: Tuesday, May 2, 2017
The Renaissance in Germany: Martin Luther
The portrait of Martin Luther on this page was painted by Lucas Cranach in 1528, when Luther was becoming the most famous writer in Europe. We now think of Luther as a Reformation leader. But Luther was a Renaissance scholar before he became a Reformation leader. Like all the men in the Reformation movement, Luther was a great Classical scholar who knew Latin and Greek. He was a scholar, a university professor, before he was anything else. And his career before 1517, shows us that the Reformation was nourished by Renaissance scholarship before the religious fireworks exploded. The Renaissance led to the Reformation.
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
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Week 27: Tuesday, May 9, 2017
The Renaissance in the Netherlands: Erasmus
Above you see the brilliant portrait of Erasmus by his friend Hans Holbein. Erasmus was famous much before Luther. And his achievement of publishing and New Testament in Latin and Greek provided Luther with much of the work for his own German Bible. Erasmus and Luther shared much in their mutual disdain for the corruption of the Roman church. But Erasmus stopped short of breaking completely with Rome. Thus, Luther and Erasmus show us two possible roads in the early 16th century: one led to total rebellion and the other one led to the reformed Roman church.
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings,
Robert M. Adams, editor,
W. W. Norton & Company; 1st ed edition (October 17, 1989),
ISBN 0393957497
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Week 28: Tuesday, May 16, 2017
The Renaissance in England: Henry VIII
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
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Week 29: Tuesday, May 23, 2017
The Renaissance in England: Elizabeth I
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
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Week 30: Tuesday, May 30, 2017
The Renaissance Achievement
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
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Week 21: Tue., Mar. 28, 2017
Renaissance in France: Francis I & Guillaume Budé
The two men pictured here are central to this week's study, since it is during the lifetime of King Francis I, that France engages fully with the ideas and artistic achievements of the Italian Renaissance. Budé was the intellectual teacher for the King on those educational ideas that mattered. His influence would help to change Medieval France into Renaissance France. One such idea was a college that would prepare young French students with a knowledge of Latin and Greek (Hebrew too) and the cultural heritage of Rome and Greece. In other words, Budé's idea about the College of France (which the King founded as recommended by Budé) was the very core of all modern ideas about an education in the humanities before graduate school (Medical, Legal, or Business). From 1500 to 2000 most colleges would have agreed and would have provided, until recently, exactly this humanistic education that Budé recommended.
RECOMMENDED READING:
J. R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. This study of the whole Renaissance period in all of Europe was the final masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the Early Modern period. John Hale was working on this book when he suffered a debilitating stroke. But his wife, Sheila Hale, and other scholars finished the book for publication and we are all enriched by its availability. It is in print, but you might also look at used copies of the original quality paperback. This book will serve us for the whole year-long course. It is especially useful for Winter and Spring Quarters.
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
Week 22: Tue., Apr. 4, 2017
The Renaissance in France: Italian Artists in France
The chateau above is Chambord. It is the single best example of the power of Italian Renaissance art in France. It is very possibly the idea of Leonardo da Vinci who lived in Amboise as the guest of King Francis I in the last years of his life. That Leonardo would choose France for his last years, tells us of the attraction that the northern kingdom now held for Italians. Leonardo was the most celebrated Italian painter of the time. His painting of the Last Supper in Milan, was now the most famous painting anywhere in Europe. Did he plan this fabulous chateau with Francis? If he did, and I think he did, then it remains to this day the best example of the enduring power of Renaissance classicism, the same architectural style that would soon be described in detail in the great book by Andrea Palladio published in Venice in 1570, the single most influential book on architecture ever published.
Week 23: Tue., Apr. 11, 2017
The Renaissance in Spain: Ferdinand and Isabella
The tomb above is the tomb sculpted for the burial of the beloved son of Ferdinand and Isabella. Juan, Prince of Asturias, the future of the united nation of Spain, had died in 1997. And here in this monastery, Domenico Fancelli from Florence, carved this magnificent tomb using all the knowledge and skill that had been accumulated in Renaissance Florence. Later he also created the great tombs for Ferdinand and Isabella in Granada.
RECOMMENDED READING:
J. R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. This study of the whole Renaissance period in all of Europe was the final masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the Early Modern period. John Hale was working on this book when he suffered a debilitating stroke. But his wife, Sheila Hale, and other scholars finished the book for publication and we are all enriched by its availability. It is in print, but you might also look at used copies of the original quality paperback. This book will serve us for the whole year-long course. It is especially useful for Winter and Spring Quarters.
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
Week 24: Tue., Apr. 18, 2017
The Renaissance in Spain: Women
In the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century, the definition of a good life for a woman changed. The Renaissance produced a whole new idea about what was the right role for a woman. Spain produced one of the most remarkable women of the age: Queen Isabella of Castile. Isabella was an extraordinary woman ruler. She brought the warring factions of Castile together and with the help of her husband Ferdinand from Aragon, she united all of Spain. But her achievement was only more extraordinary when you realize that her daughters learned what their mother taught them and they too went on to important roles in various European courts.
RECOMMENDED READING:
J. R. Hale, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. This study of the whole Renaissance period in all of Europe was the final masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the Early Modern period. John Hale was working on this book when he suffered a debilitating stroke. But his wife, Sheila Hale, and other scholars finished the book for publication and we are all enriched by its availability. It is in print, but you might also look at used copies of the original quality paperback. This book will serve us for the whole year-long course. It is especially useful for Winter and Spring Quarters.
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
Week 25: Tue., Apr. 25, 2017
Renaissance Man: Emperor Charles V
The portrait of Charles V that you see at the left was painted by Titian and is currently on view in the Prado in Madrid. Charles V (and also at the same time King Carlos I of Spain) was the single most important, the most powerful, the most dominant personality of the sixteenth century in Europe. Charles lived from 1500 to 1558 and thus he dominated the whole first half of the century and his influence continued through the rest of the century through the person of his son King Philip II who was his student in the intricacies of 16th century government and followed his policies loyally. Charles's biography is the story of someone who grew up in many states and using many languages, but who in the last years of his life became more and more Spanish. He became the most elegant, the most powerful and the best educated Renaissance Man of the century.
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
Week 26: Tue., May. 2, 2017
The Renaissance in Germany: Martin Luther
The portrait of Martin Luther on this page was painted by Lucas Cranach in 1528, when Luther was becoming the most famous writer in Europe. We now think of Luther as a Reformation leader. But Luther was a Renaissance scholar before he became a Reformation leader. Like all the men in the Reformation movement, Luther was a great Classical scholar who knew Latin and Greek. He was a scholar, a university professor, before he was anything else. And his career before 1517, shows us that the Reformation was nourished by Renaissance scholarship before the religious fireworks exploded. The Renaissance led to the Reformation.
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
Week 27: Tue., May. 9, 2017
The Renaissance in the Netherlands: Erasmus
Above you see the brilliant portrait of Erasmus by his friend Hans Holbein. Erasmus was famous much before Luther. And his achievement of publishing and New Testament in Latin and Greek provided Luther with much of the work for his own German Bible. Erasmus and Luther shared much in their mutual disdain for the corruption of the Roman church. But Erasmus stopped short of breaking completely with Rome. Thus, Luther and Erasmus show us two possible roads in the early 16th century: one led to total rebellion and the other one led to the reformed Roman church.
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings,
Robert M. Adams, editor,
W. W. Norton & Company; 1st ed edition (October 17, 1989),
ISBN 0393957497
Week 28: Tue., May. 16, 2017
The Renaissance in England: Henry VIII
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
Week 29: Tue., May. 23, 2017
The Renaissance in England: Elizabeth I
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.
Week 30: Tue., May. 30, 2017
The Renaissance Achievement
RECOMMENDED READING:
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance,
Scribner, Reprint edition (June 1, 1995),
ISBN 0684803526
RECOMMENDED READING:
This is a beautiful book which covers the whole of the Renaissance in every field and every country. Margaret King is one of the greatest American scholars of the Renaissance, and she has written a very useful general book on the subject. What is especially attractive, is all the extra material: the charts, the maps, the photos, all of which make this a great study of the Renaissance. It would be a useful "textbook" for our whole year on the Renaissance. It was, of course, designed as a college textbook for a course on the Renaissance. If you buy a new copy, it is 35$ but there are many used copies listed on Amazon.
Margaret L. King, is Professor Emerita of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of several books on women, humanism, and Venice in the Renaissance, and is currently editor-in-chief of the Renaissance and Reformation online bibliography published by Oxford Bibliographies.