HIS 45 Europe from the Renaissance to the Englightment 1300-1789

Students are invited to probe the intellectual and artistic flowering of the Renaissance as well as its political and economic foundations further investigation will focus on the intellectual, social, religious and political complexities of the Reformation era as well as its major religious and political personalities. The European search for security and the effort to reconcile the Old Regime with the New Science of the Enlightenment. An examination of the attempts to maintain the political balance and growth of forces leading to the modern world. GS-IIIC