UNDERSTANDING WESTERN CULTURE I -- US$155
The Birth of the Modern:
From the Italian Renaissance through English Romantic Poetry
Lecture 1
Transition and Introduction To Western Cultural History
Lecture 2
Italian Renaissance
Lecture 3
Northern Renaissance and Protestant Reformation
Lecture 4
Baroque – Theory
Lecture 5
Baroque Painting and Culture
Lecture 6
Louis XIV and the Nationalization of Culture – Overview/Politics/Religion
Lecture 7
The Life of Louis XIV
Lecture 8
Louis XIV, Moliere, and The Birth of a National Cultural Institutional Infrastructure
Lecture 9
The Cultural Politics of Liberalism – Enlightenment/Romanticism/Revolution
Lecture 10
The English Crucible: Absolutism, Civil War and Puritanism: 1625–1660
Lecture 11
The Crucial Turning Point: The Glorious Revolution of 1688 and England from 1660 to 1756
Lecture 12
The French Enlightenment and the Old Regime: 1685–1789
Lecture 13
Enlightenment, Liberalism and The Dynamics of the American Revolution and Experience
Lecture 14
Rousseau, Romanticism, and The French Revolution through The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
Lecture 15
Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Birth of "Modern" European Culture: Germany from Frederick II to Hegel
Lecture 16
The Flowering of Cultural Liberalism: English Romantic Poetry: 1789–1830
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