LECTURE 2 "Echoes of Rome: Faith, Feudalism, and the Medieval Imagination"
A Legacy of Power & Beauty: Italy from Ancient...
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1h 17m
This session journeys into medieval Europe, where Rome’s legacy was reshaped by Christian ideals, Gothic cathedrals, and the stirring ambition to recreate Rome’s grandeur. From Theoderic and Charlemagne’s ambitious revivals to the thriving cities of Florence and Venice, we’ll examine how feudalism developed and then how urban life flourished. We'll also visit the foundations of higher learning in Bologna and Padua, where the seeds of future Renaissance thinking were sown.
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LECTURE 3 "The Age of Genius: Art and...
In this class, we’ll immerse ourselves in the Renaissance, an age of rediscovery and innovation that breathed new life into art, science and politics. We’ll meet Cosimo de’ Medici and the creative geniuses—Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Masaccio, Leonardo, Michelangelo—whose revolutionary work in perspe...
