Teaching Timetable 2023-24: Renaissance Culture & Society (RS904)
Term 2: January - March 2024
These classes will be taught in person, Tuesday 12-2pm, in room FAB1.07 (faculty of arts building), unless specified differently below (see wk5)
This information will also be available via your timetable in tabula. Individual readings available to download through links on this page. Information about assessment can be found here https://courses.warwick.ac.uk/modules/2023/RS904-30 but in short, we require one x 5,000 word essay, due noon, Friday 26th April 2024.
TOPICS & SESSION TITLES
THEME I. Political and Religious Culture
Week 1: 'Making Sense of the English Reformation' [Prof. Peter Marshall]
Week 2: 'Violence and the French Religious Wars' [Prof. Penny Roberts]
Week 3: ''The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648): Political Conflict or Europe's last War of Religion' [Dr Tom Pert]. This seminar has been rescheduled for Friday 2nd February, 12-2pm in FAB2.28
THEME II. Learning, Literature and the Book Trade
Week 4: 'Early Humanists and Book Culture: Reviving the Past' [Dr Cecilia Sideri]
Week 5: 'The Printing of English Renaissance Playtexts' [Dr Teresa Grant] This class will run from 11-1pm in the Modern Records Centre seminar room
Week 6: No teaching/classes (reading week)
Week 7: 'Renaissance Commentaries' [Dr Floris Verhaart]
THEME III. Intellectual Culture
Week 8: 'Translation Cultures in the Italian Renaissance: Latin, Greek, and the Vernacular' [Cecilia Sideri]
Week 9: 'Rhetoric and Medicine' [Dr Caroline Petit]
Week 10: 'Travelling Artists in Renaissance Europe' [Dr Claudia Daniotti]
READING LISTS
Week 1: READING LIST
Week 2: READING LIST
Week 3: READING LIST
Week 4: READING LIST
Week 5: READING LIST
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Week 8: READING LIST
Week 9: READING LIST
Week 10: READINGLIST