Renaissance Culture & Society (RS904) Teaching Timetable 2024-25
Term 2: January - March 2025
These classes will be taught in person, Tuesday 12-2pm, in room FAB1.07 (faculty of arts building), unless specified differently below.
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/2024/RS904-30#assessment but in short, we require one x 5,000 word essay, due noon, Friday 25th April 2025.
SESSION TITLES
Week 1 (7th January 2025): Inventing the Renaissance (David Lines)
Week 2 (14th January 2025): ‘Translation Cultures in the Italian Renaissance: Latin, Greek, and the Vernacular’ (Cecilia Sideri)
Week 3 (21st January 2025): ‘The French Renaissance’ (Ingrid De Smet)
Week 4 (28th January 2025): ‘Erasmus and the Idea of a Scholar’ (Paul Botley)
Week 5 (4th February 2025): 'The Printing of English Renaissance Playtexts' [Teresa GrantLink opens in a new window] This class will run from 11-1pm in the Modern Records CentreLink opens in a new window seminar room
Week 6: No teaching/classes (reading week)
Week 7 (18th February 2025): ‘Humanism, Literature, and the Bible’ (Maria Czepiel)
Week 8 (25th February 2025): 'Renaissance Art at the V&A' (Marta Ajmar). NB: This class will run at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, and may run a little longer than the 12-2pm norm. Details to follow.
Week 9 (4th March 2025): ‘The Reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses’ (Rich Rabone)
Week 10 (11th March 2025): ‘Presentations and Conclusions’ (Rich Rabone & Tess Grant). This class will run from 11-1pm in the Modern Records Centre Link opens in a new windowseminar room
READING LISTS
These will be made available via Talis and Moodle in due course.