The Renaissance

During this academic year the Institute will present a thirty-week course on "The Renaissance" taught by William H. Fredlund, Ph.D. Many scholars consider the Renaissance to be the cardinal point in Western Civilization. It looks back to the ancient world, to Greece and Rome, as it attempts to recover accurate texts of many long-lost works of Greek and Roman literature and philosophy. And it looks forward to the modern world as it develops new forms of government, new fields of study such as political science, and new forms of art. Our thirty-week study is divided into three parts: Fall Quarter studies the origins of the Renaissance in Florence; Winter Quarter studies the expansion of the Renaissance in Rome in the sixteenth century; Spring Quarter studies the unique Venetian version of the Renaissance which flowers in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.