We will explore the similarities and the differences among the three religions, and try to determine how they influenced each other, and also how thery refuted, distanced and demonized each other. The main readings will be primary sources. In English and Italian. The course is intended to expose studentst to a comprehensive and in-depth study of Italian lyric and love poetry in Italian and focus attention on translation of works from the Sicilian Poetical School to most recent productions. Non-Italian figures include Chaucer Wyatt, Shakespeare, More, Erasmus, Villon, Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, Cervantes, Luther, et al.
Attention is given to both scholastic and mystical traditions.
This course explains how biblical religion became Judaism. A study of personalities, institutional changes, and theological movements in European and British Christianity from the Reformation through the eighteenth century. Includes Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, Protestant Radicalism, the Roman Catholic Reformation, the English Reformation, and Methodism and the Evangelical Revival. The course includes architecture, painting, ceramics and decorative art of the Muslim renaissance, the sumptuous arts of the 16th and 17th centuries and their decline. It's commonly said that the two most dangerous inventions of the Middle Ages were gunpowder and romantic love.