. Courses 2016-17
Courses 2019-20
Renaissance Studies Graduate Courses listed by Department 2019-2020
Art History
Winter
- Richard Neer, ARTH 45885, Practices of Classicism in the French 17thCentury (this is a traveling seminar; registration by consent only)
Spring
- Niall Atkinson, ARTH 36711, Florentine Topographies: Art, Architecture, and Urban Life
- Niall Atkinson and Karin Krause, ARTH 40585, Journeys Real and Virtual: Travel in the Pre-modern Mediterranean
Divinity
Winter
- Richard Rosengarten, RLVC 41295, Anthropos and Anthropocene in Bunyan and Milton: The Pilgrim’s Progressand Paradise Lost
English Language and Literature
Autumn
- Timothy Harrison, ENGL 53103, The Uses of Fiction: Poetry and Philosophy in Early Modernity
Spring
- Joshua Scodel, ENGL 39120, Renaissance Christian Epic: Tasso, Vida, Milton
History
Autumn
- Adrian Johns, HIST 71301, Seminar I: An Age of Revolutions in Early Modern Society: Britain from Reformation to Enlightenment
Winter
- David Nirenberg, HIST 42012, Race and Religion: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
- Matthew Kruer, HIST 47200, Early Modern North America
- Adrian Johns, HIST 71302, Seminar II: An Age of Revolutions in Early Modern Society: Britain from Reformation to Enlightenment
Spring
- Lorraine Daston, HIST 35318, Wonder, Wonders, and Knowing (compressed 5 week course, undergrads must apply for permission to take this course)
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Autumn
- Cornell Fleischer, NEHC 30852, The Ottoman World in the Age of Suleyman the Magnificent (2 quarter sequence)
Winter
- Cornell Fleischer, NEHC 30840, Radical Islamic Pieties, 1200-1600
- Cornell Fleischer, NEHC 30853, The Ottoman World in the Age of Suleyman the Magnificent (2 quarter sequence)
Spring
- Paul Walker, NEHC 30630, Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
Philosophy
Spring
- Daniel Moerner, PHIL 57200, Spinoza’s Ethics
Political Science
Winter
- Nathan Tarcov, PLSC 31205, Politics, Love, and War: Machiavelli’s Literary Works
- John Padgett, PLSC 46401, Co-Evolution of States and Markets
- John McCormick, PLSC 52402, Florentine Political Thought
Romance Languages and Literatures
Autumn
- Rocco Rubini, ITAL 33001, Machiavelli and Machiavellism
- Noel Blanco-Mourelle, SPAN 33555, Learned Women: Spaces of Knowledge, Self-Actualization, and Power
Winter
- Justin Steinberg, ITAL 33502, Boccaccio’s Decameron
- Miguel Martinez, SPAN 34170, El arte de sobrevivir: la tradición picaresca
- Rocco Rubini, ITAL 38702, Italian Comic Theater
- Larry Norman, FREN 34420, Practices of Classicism in the French Seventeenth Century
Spring
- Larry Norman, FREN 35961, Versailles: Art, Power, Resistance in the Sun King’s Palace (Reading and Research course)
- Justin Steinberg, ITAL 32000, Dante’s Divine Comedy2: Purgatorio
- Armando Maggi, ITAL 36401, Torquato Tasso