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Study the development of western thought in Rome, the cradle of Western civilization. The five-week course, Rome, will be taught by Virginia Jewiss of the Yale Humanities Program, and will include on-site guest lectures by local experts on art and archaeology. Seminar meetings, which will be held in air-conditioned classrooms near the famous Spanish Steps, will complement our exploration of Rome's piazzas, museums, churches, and archeological sites. Students will live in apartments in Trastevere, the medieval neighborhood located on the west bank of the Tiber River. Students must enroll in HUMS 396b, The City of Rome, in the spring semester in order to be eligible for the summer course. Rome was Troy's destiny, Aeneas's new home, the heir to the glory of Greece. Under Augustus, Rome was the Caput Mundi, seat of the most extraordinary imperial power the world has ever known. Rome was where Peter became the rock of the Church, and it remains the indisputable center of western Christendom. Rome was where Petrarch stood and gazed out on the ruins of that ancient civilization; his ruminations gave rise to the Renaissance. Rome was where Martin Luther witnessed the corruption and decadence of ecclesiastic power, his outrage fueling the Reformation. And Rome is where the Church responded most dramatically to that schism: the Counter-Reformation sparked a period of spectacular artistic patronage and urban planning. Rome was where Gibbon sat and mused and decided to write his history. Rome was the high point of the Grand Tour, the mecca and inspiration of the Romantics. And alas, in 1938 Rome was the meeting place of Hitler and Mussolini. Nothing is simply ancient history in this eternal city: its multiple layers of history and the intersection of the arts and politics are ever-present in Rome's urban landscape and cultural imagination |
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