Credit: 1.0 | Prerequisite: see description

This class helps students understand how the development of European historical and intellectual thought from 1500 AD influences us as inheritors of this complex cultural tradition. We will look at how various leaders and institutions in Europe sought to legitimize power and authority in response to the emergence of humanism after the Renaissance. To do this, we will explore how seminal European works of literature and philosophy anticipate and respond to key military, political, historical, and religious events.