Renaissances
Robert Lerner, Northwestern University
This course examined the applicability of the term “Renaissance” to intellectual and cultural movements of four successive centuries: the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth. The term was used as both a heuristic and comparative device: is it useful to apply the term “Renaissance” to the thought and art of any of these periods? If it is, what makes one movement more “Renaissance-like” than another? Is it useful to refer to any entire period as “The Renaissance?” The course treated “straight history”, philosophy, literature, and art.
Participants: Laura Bruck, Northwestern University; Eric Constant, Northwestern University; Karl Gunther, Northwestern University; Dorothy Johnson, Northwestern University; Christian Nielson, Northwestern University; Jilana Ordman, Loyola University Chicago; Bradley Reichek, Northwestern University; Sarah Ross, Northwestern University; Mary Webb, University of Illinois at Chicago
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