General overview of the social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance, with introduction to its historiography. Case studies in the Italian and European Renaissance, with an initiation to the direct reading of sources.
Syllabus: The Renaissance in Italy: an interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of areas of study.
Set texts:
1. Jerry Brotton, The Renaissance: a very short introduction (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006);
2. Michael Wyatt (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Additional information and suggestions for further reading may be posted at a later date.
Written questionnaire on the set texts, followed by an oral interview.
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