Renaissance palace schools believed in close, interpersonal relationships between teacher and student-a marked contrast to dispassionate medieval classrooms, where corporal punishment was liberally employed.
While no new concept of femininity emerged during the Renaissance, noble women were able to contribute to the culture of the period, beyond their own productions, through the process of patronage.
One of the most important musical innovations by the famed Renaissance composer, Guillaume Dufay, involved replacing medieval chants traditionally used for Mass with more dynamic and complex secular tunes.
A popular feast day celebrating St. John the Baptist (dated June 24) was grafted onto older, pre-Christian traditions celebrating the summer solstice and fertility-which is why it's often referred to as Midsummer.
During the later centuries of the Renaissance, secular auth, as well as spiritual ones, al ones got involved in the witch-hunting business; rulers seeking to centralize state power saw witches as dangerous obstacles to their political goals.
The pastry casings we associate with Renaissance meals were simply a cooking vessel that contained the filling-as the crust buffered the pies' valuable insides-and were often discarded at Renaissance tables, uneaten.
Professor McNabb's extensive background in medieval and Renaissance history makes her the perfect guide through these exciting, tumultuous, and powerful centuries of Western civilization.
She brings to every lecture of Renaissance: The Transformation of the West the same celebrated teaching style that has earned her awards, including the Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching from Western Illinois University. She's also taken care to include maps, illustrations, portraits, paintings, literary excerpts, and other elements to help you organize the epic scope of this subject.
"I think we're still living the Renaissance," Professor McNabb says. "We're Renaissance people. We've updated some aspects of the Renaissance past and infused it with our own contemporary concerns. And, such activities are in keeping with the Renaissance as well."
Prepare for a deep dive into Europe's great Renaissance movements, which Professor McNabb considers the greatest stories ever told-and ones well worth listening to, still.
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