Renaissance Europe

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This course explores the cultural, social, and political developments of early modern Europe between 1350-1650. This period witnessed a dramatic transformation between the medieval and modern worlds: a transition marked by new historical and artistic visions, the invention of the printing press, the discovery of the New World, the permanent fracturing of Christianity during the Protestant Reformation, the scientific revolution, and the rise of capitalism as a world system. We will consider these and other transformations in this time period both as they were understood by elite society as well as the impact of these innovations upon the daily lives of everyday people and women in particular.