HIST 306 - Seminar: Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: HIST 100, or 201 and 202, or 203, or instructor consent. The seminar draws on primary and secondary sources to survey the evolution of legal and political thought from St. Augustine to Machiavelli. Topics include church-state relations, scholasticism, the revivals of Greek and Roman thought, and humanism. Readings include St. Augustine, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Leonardo Bruni, and Niccolò Machiavelli. Peterson.