From Renaissance to Enlightenment
During the spring semester of 2014 at Santa Fe College, Gainesville, Florida, I completed a humanities class to satisfy general education requirements. The class covered the period from the beginning of the Renaissance to Enlightenment. After registration and after reviewing the course schedule and syllabus, I realized that this class was going to be a challenge because of the amount of writing that would be required. I almost dropped the class but decided to go forward. Following are a collection of short, thesis papers that I wrote for the class. I reviewed them as I posted them and relaize that some may not include a sufficient introduction to set the context. Also, the name “John Williams” appears as the author. My first name is “John” so that is how I ascribed myself as the author but I most-commonly go by my middle name “Brent.”
- The Ideal Renaissance Man
- Princely Qualities: A Machiavellian Examination
- The Guilt of Winter: Northern European Renaissance Art
- Pestilence, War, and Famine: Forerunners of Death
- Lights, Camera, Noh Action!: A Quiet Look
- Cohesive Cooperative Community
- Sight, Sound, and Speech: The Unified Approach of the Counter-Reformation
- Baroque Drama
- Comparison of Empirical and Deductive Methods of Scientific Inquiry
- Royal Art in Baroque France and Britain
- Social Contract: Submission or Cooperation
- Dust in the Wind
- The Foundation of Enlightenment: Science