Renaissance: The Transformation of the West

By: Jennifer McNabb, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Jennifer McNabb

While it’s easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full, rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without digging beneath the surface, without investigating the period in terms of its politics, its spirituality, its philosophies, its economics, and its societies.

Do just that with these 48 lectures that consider the European Renaissance from all sides, that disturb traditional understandings, that tip sacred cows, and that enlarges our understanding of how the Renaissance revolutionized the Western world.

Guiding you through centuries of exhilarating change in Europe with the knowledge, insights, and discernment of a master scholar, Professor McNabb offers new perspectives on familiar figures and events while focusing on often-unexplored or overlooked areas, such as the role of women in the Renaissance, the daily lives of the rural poor and urban elite, the classical roots of Renaissance thinking, and the powerful connections between the Renaissance and the Reformation.

By observing the Renaissance less casually and more critically, you’ll uncover insights and connections you can’t find in typical narratives that celebrate these remarkable, tumultuous centuries. These lectures are an authoritative, uncompromising, and multidisciplinary way to experience not just one of Europe’s Renaissance movements - but all of them.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Excellent and very broad coverage of how all of Europe was impacted by the Renaissance

Dr McNabb has a great passion for this topic and it comes thru in this series of lectures. I loved how she laid out the lectures and frames then in a broad list of topics…from the church to war to even witchcraft. Wonderful in both developing and delivering these lectures Dr McNabb!!!

A good book to understand the start of modernizati

A very good book to understand the transition process of Europe and the rest of the world.

Great!

While the length may seem daunting, the content is great! I enjoyed the author’s language and delivery!

Recommended!

The lecturer was articulate, entertaining and insightful and made connections I would never have thought of.

Very clear and Informative

I found this title, well, well done. I found Jennifer very clear on subjects and a wide range from pre-Renaissance through the English Civil War (this was mentioned only a few times. I thought her voice was nice and I would listen to this again. I work at night and this was perfect!