HIST-410 Interpreting the New World (3)

This course approaches the question of how people cope with the utterly new by exploring the intellectual and cultural assumptions from antiquity and the Middle Ages that Europeans brought with them to the New World. It assesses how those preconceptions fared when challenged by experience and in the context of major changes in European culture, including the print revolution, intellectual and cultural movements such as the Renaissance humanism, and contemporary European religious conflicts. Crosslist: HIST-610. Usually Offered: alternate springs.