Sumários

Reading of Thomas More’s Utopia

12 Outubro 2022, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Thomas More's Utopia.

The creation of the  concept of "utopia" and "eutopia" as well as the creation of a new literary genre, its main characteristics and goals - the influence of the classical notion of serio ludens,
The structure of the work: the relatio ship between Book I and Book II.
Society in Utopia: its economic system, social structure, education and religious perspective.
Utopia's main narrator and his impact on the work's r3 eption.

Protestant Reformation

7 Outubro 2022, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

 Protestant Reformation: the theological foundations.


The doctrines of Martin Luther and John Calvin and their dissemination accross Europe. The  relevance of Calvin's predestination theory inthe burgeoning urban way of living.
The religious schism as a result of the English internal and international political agenda within the Protestant atmosphere in England and abroad.

The Tudors : the centralisation of power

30 Setembro 2022, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The  emergence of themTudor  dynasty and the centralisation of power .

 The external politics of Henry VII and Henry VIII - alliance and severance with Spain and its consequences.
The Reformation and its political aims and impact.

Renaissance

28 Setembro 2022, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The Renaissance  - the rebirth of the classical model and the adoption of  romanesque aesthetics. The impact of Greek and Latin literature: the  new  poetic and dramatic forms and the transmission of a non-Christian cultural framework.

The importanxe of knowledge: the new science versus revealed cknowledge.

Reading of C. S. Lewis, “New Learning, New Ignorance”, 1954

Renaissance

23 Setembro 2022, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Renaissance – exploration of the concept.

The English Renaissance: timeline and main facttors.

The new world vision: the discoveries and the new perspective of earth in the universe - heliocentrism.

The rediscovery of Greek and Latin from a philological approach.

Reading of C. S. Lewis, “New Learning, New Ignorance”, 1954