Feb 19
History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval and Renaissance Rome Info Session
Thu, February 19, 2026
• 6:30pm
- 7:30pm (1h) • Leighton 304
The city of Rome has one of the richest historical pasts in Europe, offering exceptional opportunities to examine the nature of urban and historical change. Students will explore Rome and its environs in depth and compare it with other sites in Italy that had other histories, opportunities, and challenges. They will learn how to integrate experiential knowledge with other kinds of evidence and scholarship. In particular, we will examine how communities from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance and beyond constructed, preserved, re-purposed, decorated, and destroyed spaces and places in the service of political, social, or religious aims and identities.