Re-mapping the Renaissance: Exchange between Early Modern Islam and Europe is a three-week summer seminar for college and university teachers at the University of Maryland.
This seminar will explore the ways in which the European Renaissance, far from being internal to Europe, was shaped by interactions between Europe and the rest of the world. Participants will focus in particular on the relationships between Europe and the world of Islam.
The seminar will demonstrate, for example, how the commercial position of the Italian city states was in itself part of the wider trading networks of the Ottoman and other non-Western empires. Such networks were conduits for the exchange of ideas, scientific discoveries, and artistic production between the Muslim world and Europe. This seminar will investigate that legacy.
