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131-041 Renaissance Florence | |
Note | Formerly available as 131-232/332. Students who have completed 131-232/332 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | To be advised |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year History, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per 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 totalling to no more than 4000 words. |
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