The Benson Center promotes study of the intellectual, artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization ... the rise of Christendom, the Renaissance, the Reformation and ...

This course surveys some important issues and tendencies in the history of Western Civilization from its origins through the early modern period, including ancient Mesopotamia, classical Greece and ...

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

Western civilization refers to the art ... and that ultimately took modern shape after the Renaissance. From the intellectual speculation of the Greeks emerged the philosophic and scientific thought ...

The Sacro Bosco's meaning is the subject of debate, with scholars alternatively describing the sprawling complex as a memorial, an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civilizations ...

Early Medieval history, the Carolingian empire, micro-Medieval studies, the 12th-century Renaissance, Latin palaeography ... history and culture in such courses as HUM 105: Western Civilization, HUM ...

Themed "Classical Civilizations and the Modern World," the just-concluded conference was co-organized by China and Greece. More than two millennia ago, the ancient civilizations of China and Greece ...

One case in point was Europe's Renaissance, which found its transformative ideas in Greco-Roman civilization and led to the rise of the modern Western world. Against the backdrop of decades of ...