Renaissance: The Transformation of the West

While it's easy to get caught up-and, rightfully so-in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full-rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without digging beneath the surface, without investigating the period in terms of its politics, its spirituality, its philosophies, its economics, and its societies.

Do just that with these 48 lectures that consider the European Renaissance from all sides, that disturb traditional understandings, that tip sacred cows, and that enlarges our understanding of how the Renaissance revolutionized the Western world.

Guiding you through centuries of exhilarating change in Europe with the knowledge, insights, and discernment of a master scholar, Professor McNabb offers new perspectives on familiar figures and events while focusing on often-unexplored or overlooked areas, such as the role of women in the Renaissance, the daily lives of the rural poor and urban elite, the classical roots of Renaissance thinking, and the powerful connections between the Renaissance and the Reformation.

By observing the Renaissance less casually and more critically, you'll uncover insights and connections you can't find in typical narratives that celebrate these remarkable, tumultuous centuries. These lectures are an authoritative, uncompromising, and multidisciplinary way to experience not just one of Europe's Renaissance movements-but all of them.

All Lectures:
1. The Spirit of Renaissance
2. Rebirth: Classical Values Made New
3. The Medieval Roots of Italian Renaissance
4. The Rise of the Humanists
5. Renaissance Florence: Age of Gold
6. Renaissance Venice: More Serene Republic
7. Renaissance Rome and the Papal States
8. Renaissance Italy's Princes and Rivals
9. Renaissance Man as Political Animal
10. Women and the Italian Renaissance Court
11. Painting in the Early Italian Renaissance
12. Painting in the High Italian Renaissance
13. Italian Sculpture, Architecture, and Music
14. Letters in the Italian Renaissance
15. Renaissance Statecraft: A New Path
16. European Renaissance Monarchies
17. The Birth of the Christian Renaissance
18. Northern Renaissance Art and Music
19. Northern Renaissance Literature and Drama
20. Did Women Have a Renaissance?
21. Renaissance Life: The Rural Experience
22. Renaissance Life: The Urban Experience
23. Renaissance Life: Crime, Deviance, and Honor
24. Renaissance Life: Marriage
25. Renaissance Life: Home and Hearth
26. Renaissance Faith: Medieval Contexts
27. Renaissance Faith: The Papacy
28. Renaissance Faith: Religious Uniformity
29. Luther: Breaking the Christian Consensus
30. Radical Reform in Renaissance Europe
31. Renaissance and Reformation: Connections
32. English Reformation
33. Catholic Reformations: The Road to Trent
34. Catholic Reformations: Spiritual Revival
35. Reformation Culture: Continuity and Change
36. Renaissance War and Peace: Diplomacy
37. The French Wars of Religion
38. The Dutch Revolt
39. The Spanish Armada
40. The Thirty Years' War
41. Renaissance at Arms: The Military Revolution
42. Renaissance and the Birth of Modern Science
43. Renaissance and Magic: Witchcraft
44. Renaissance Encounters with Islam
45. Renaissance and Exploration: Motives
46. Renaissance and Exploration: New Horizons
47. Early Modern Power: The New Global Rivalries
48. Renaissance Legacy: Burckhardt and Beyond