| General description |
This course focuses on the processes of reception of classical and ancient sources in late medieval and Renaissance literature. The sessions present an analytical approach to the structuring processes and the later evolution of the so-called "Renaissance humanism".
I have designed each class with four goals in mind. First, the sessions will depart from the students’ knowledge of the period (ca. 1350–ca. 1600) to offer unexpected connections and new ways to read texts. Second, the assistants will often be challenged to appraise several literary traditions and to establish connections between literary and non-literary texts. Third, each session [a.] will connect the subject discussed with ongoing debates on Renaissance Studies, [b.] will explain the potential of the ideas appraised and how they relate to more complex phenomena, and [c.] will present problems, texts, and authors worthy of further exploration. Fourth and last, I expect each session to lay the groundwork—methodological and bibliographical—for the students to foster their own research interests on the field. |
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