Italy

This Seminar will not run Summer 2009.

SUMMER 2009

PHI291: CHRISTIANITY, HUMANISM, AND THE SCIENCES IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

From June 28-July 10 Professor Brian Glenney will lead a course exploring the dynamic and historic intersection between  faith, humanism and science during the Italian Renaissance. Over the course of two weeks students earn 4 credits. The course will entail visiting sites like the Villa of Lorenzo Medici where the Christian Platonists met, examining the humanism undergirding Renaissance architecture, and studying the philosophy behind Renaissance art.

Locations

Orvieto-Students will live in the Monastery of San Paolo, the home of Gordon's semester-long program
Rome
Florence

Course Format

• Lectures
• Visits to
• • historic sites
  • churches
  • villas and museums
• Class discussion

Course schedule coming soon.