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 131-232 "Renaissance" Florence

Note

Available as 131-332 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Mr I Robertson

Semester

2

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Subject Description

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

Assessment

Written work not exceeding 5000 words.



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