ENGLC 1302: Medieval and Renaissance Imagination

Medieval and Renaissance Imagination is a writing-intensive course that builds on the skills of close reading, discussion, and personal reflection introduced in Classical Imagination. This course explores the ways in which Dante, Shakespeare, and other seminal authors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance took the best of the Classical literature and integrated it creatively with Christian revelation. Students are exposed to the tensions among and extraordinary synthesis of faith, reason, and artistic excellence that characterizes the Christian imagination.