Themes in European History

Lecture 1

  What Was the Renaissance? In approaching this topic, I encountered three problems right at the outset. The first was how to find a way into ...

Lecture 2

The Commercial Revolution. We have established the time frame for the change in culture that transformed the civilisation of the Middle Ages into som...

Lecture 3

Italian Cities: Venice and Florence. The development of Italian cities in the late Middle Ages was dramatic. Their growth was a product of the new ec...

Lecture 4

  The New Outlook.                     ...

Lecture 5

  Renaissance Art-from Cimabue to Botticelli Today we are going to look at the art of the Renaissance in Italy, that is the three core plas...

Lecture 6

The High Renaissance-Lorenzo, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Rafael. Our study of the High Renaissance must begin with some comment about its greatest pa...

Lecture 7

  The Renaissance in Areas other than Art. I suggested in an earlier lecture that the Renaissance, Renascimento, Rebirth, was not just about ar...

Lecture 8

  The End of the Renaissance in Italy. The High Renaissance is the name given to the period from about the end of the 15th Century to the middl...

The Italian Renaissance - Introduction

The Renaissance. Introduction. A short account of this period was given in Lecture 5 of the series of lectures entitled "The European Millennium". ...