McNabb, Jennifer. Great Courses Audio.

The Great Courses

Read by Jennifer McNabb

While it's easy to get caught up-and, rightfully so-in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full-rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without digging beneath the surface, without investigating the period in terms of its politics, its spirituality, its philosophies, its economics, and its societies. Do just that with these 48 lectures that consider the European Renaissance from all sides, that disturb traditional understandings, that tip sacred cows, and that enlarges our understanding of how the Renaissance revolutionized the Western world. Guiding you through centuries of exhilarating change in Europe with the knowledge, insights, and discernment of a master scholar, Professor McNabb offers new perspectives on familiar figures and events while focusing on often-unexplored or overlooked areas, such as the role of women in the Renaissance, the daily lives of the rural poor and urban elite, the classical roots of Renaissance thinking, and the powerful connections between the Renaissance and the Reformation. By observing the Renaissance less casually and more critically, you'll uncover insights and connections you can't find in typical narratives that celebrate these remarkable, tumultuous centuries. These lectures are an authoritative, uncompromising, and multidisciplinary way to experience not just one of Europe's Renaissance movements-but all of them. All Lectures: 1. The Spirit of Renaissance 2. Rebirth: Classical Values Made New 3. The Medieval Roots of Italian Renaissance 4. The Rise of the Humanists 5. Renaissance Florence: Age of Gold 6. Renaissance Venice: More Serene Republic 7. Renaissance Rome and the Papal States 8. Renaissance Italy's Princes and Rivals 9. Renaissance Man as Political Animal 10. Women and the Italian Renaissance Court 11. Painting in the Early Italian Renaissance 12. Painting in the High Italian Renaissance 13. Italian Sculpture, Architecture, and Music 14. Letters in the Italian Renaissance 15. Renaissance Statecraft: A New Path 16. European Renaissance Monarchies 17. The Birth of the Christian Renaissance 18. Northern Renaissance Art and Music 19. Northern Renaissance Literature and Drama 20. Did Women Have a Renaissance? 21. Renaissance Life: The Rural Experience 22. Renaissance Life: The Urban Experience 23. Renaissance Life: Crime, Deviance, and Honor 24. Renaissance Life: Marriage 25. Renaissance Life: Home and Hearth 26. Renaissance Faith: Medieval Contexts 27. Renaissance Faith: The Papacy 28. Renaissance Faith: Religious Uniformity 29. Luther: Breaking the Christian Consensus 30. Radical Reform in Renaissance Europe 31. Renaissance and Reformation: Connections 32. English Reformation 33. Catholic Reformations: The Road to Trent 34. Catholic Reformations: Spiritual Revival 35. Reformation Culture: Continuity and Change 36. Renaissance War and Peace: Diplomacy 37. The French Wars of Religion 38. The Dutch Revolt 39. The Spanish Armada 40. The Thirty Years' War 41. Renaissance at Arms: The Military Revolution 42. Renaissance and the Birth of Modern Science 43. Renaissance and Magic: Witchcraft 44. Renaissance Encounters with Islam 45. Renaissance and Exploration: Motives 46. Renaissance and Exploration: New Horizons 47. Early Modern Power: The New Global Rivalries 48. Renaissance Legacy: Burckhardt and Beyond

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