Teaching Timetable 2018-19: RS904 (Ren Culture & Society)
Term 2: 8th January - 12th March
N.B.: all sessions will take place in H 4.50 on Tuesdays 12–2, unless otherwise specified
I. Political History, Religious Culture, and Society
WEEK | DATE | TIME | PLACE | TUTOR | TOPIC |
1 | Tuesday 8th January | 12:00-14:00 | H4.50 | Jonathan Davies | Identifying the Renaissance (reading) |
2 | Tuesday 15th January | 12:00-14:00 | H4.50 | Peter Marshall | Religion and Identity in the Reformation Era: The English Case (reading) |
3 | Monday 21st January | 10:00-12:00 | H4.50 | Paul Botley | The Renaissance in Northern Europe: Erasmus (reading) |
II. Literary, Artistic, and Material Culture
WEEK | DATE | TIME | PLACE | TUTOR | TOPIC |
4 | Tuesday 29th January | 12:00-14:00 | H4.50 | Catherine Bates |
Approaches to reading Literature and History:The Historicity of Texts and the Textuality of History (reading) |
5 | Tuesday 5th February | 10:00-12:00 | H4.50 | Marta Celati |
Renaissance Political Thought in Fifteenth-century Italy, between Literature and Art (reading) |
7 | Monday 18th February | 10:00-12:00 | H4.50 | Katherine Forsyth | English Reformation Print Culture (reading) |
III. Humanism, Learning, and Intellectual History
WEEK | DATE | TIME | PLACE | TUTOR | TOPIC |
8 | Tuesday 26th February | 12:00-14:00 | H4.50 | David Lines | Aristotle in the Renaissance (reading) |
9 | Tuesday 5th March | 12:00-14:00 | H4.50 | Maude Vanhaelen | New Words, New Concepts, New Philosophers The Humanist Revolution of Philosophy and the Revival of Plato (reading) |
10 | Tuesday 12th March | 12:00-14:00 | H4.50 | Mark Knights | Thomas More’s Utopia (reading) |