COLT 0710D - Inventing the Renaissance

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

The invention of the Renaissance as a cultural formation and as a part of the western cultural imaginary. We will consider the so-called "discovery of man," humanism and the recovery of the classical past, the production of scriptural identity or the "bibliographic ego," courtiership, the formation of the early modern state and the discovery of the "new world" through readings of major English and continental writers of the period.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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