European Renaissance IV: Western versus Eastern Europe

1. 6.2.2025 Redescovering classicism. Renaissance philosophy. 2. 13.2.2025 Social, political and religious changes 3. 20.2.2025 Italian Renaissance Literature (1) 4. 27.02.2025 Italian Renaissance Literature (2) 5. 06.2.2025 English Reinassance Literature 6. 13.3.2025 Renaissance in Iberian Peninsula, France, Germany and the Netherlands 7. 20.3.2025 Renaissance Art 8. 27.3.2025 Renaissance science and technology 9. 3.4.2025 Eastern Reinassance (1) 10. 10.4.2025 Eastern Reinassance (2) Present aspects of the European Renaissance (society, art, literature, philosophy, economy, politics etc.) with extension to the late Renaissance in Eastern Europe, to better understand European developments in the following centuries.

Application Deadline

Virtual Part starting date 2025-02-06

Virtual Part closing date 2025-04-10

Total student workload 150

Specific field of studies Literature, Philosophy, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Art

Pre-requisite for selection CV Motivation Letter Level of English (According to CEFR)

Academic pre-requisites for applicants none

Physical Part starting date 2025-06-09

Physical Part Description Precisely because it is located in Eastern Europe, Romania is one of the best places to understand cultural differences in the 14th-16th centuries. The UB will organize workshops, visits to museums (The National Museum of the History of Romania, The National Museum of Art, The National Museum of Old Maps and Books Bucharest), trips to places where there are vestiges of the Oriental Renaissances (churches and monasteries, buildings - The Brâncovan Palace Museum in Mogoșoaia etc.).

Physical Part closing date 2025-06-13

Language level required B2

Field of studies related to the course Social Science and Humanities

Course location Bucarest, Romania

Course language English Italian