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131-232/332 Renaissance Florence

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years

Coordinator: Mr I Robertson.

Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

On completion of the subject students should: have a rounded picture of a particular past social and cultural context which has left a profound impact upon European culture of the succeeding centuries up to our own; be able to reflect on the nature of the various forms of human association in that society, and the relationship between them and ideas of 'community', 'government', and 'state'; be able to reflect on the nature and role of both verbal and visual rhetoric in expressing and consolidating ideas of social order, both this-worldly and other-worldly.

Content:

The social, political and cultural history of Florence from 1282 to 1530: surviving republicanism in an age of despotism.

Assessment:

A 3,000 word paper and a 1,500 word paper to be submitted at specified times during the subject.

Prescribed texts:

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2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p126) : Next:131-233 | Prev:131-223

131-232/332 Renaissance Florence

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Mr I Robertson.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

On completion of the subject students should: have a rounded picture of a particular past social and cultural context which has left a profound impact upon European culture of the succeeding centuries up to our own; be able to reflect on the nature of the various forms of human association in that society, and the relationship between them and ideas of 'community', 'government', and 'state'; be able to reflect on the nature and role of both verbal and visual rhetoric in expressing and consolidating ideas of social order, both this-worldly and other-worldly.

Content:

The social, political and cultural history of Florence from 1282 to 1530: surviving republicanism in an age of despotism.

Assessment:

A 3000 word paper and a 1500 word paper.

Prescribed texts:

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