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10. What are the main architectural masterpieces of Ancient Rome?
11. What impact did the ancient culture have on the development of the
European and world culture?
References

1. Popular Culture in the Ancient World – 2016 www.cambridge.org ›Classical
studies › Ancient history

2. Elizabeth S. Cohen, Honor and Gender in the Streets of Early Modern
Rome, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Spring, 1992), pp.
597-625

3. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
4. Tom Holland, The Last Years of the Roman Republic ISBN 0-385-50313-X
5. Ramsay MacMullen, 2000. Romanization in the Time of Augustus (Yale

University Press)
6. Karl Wilhelm Weeber, 2008. Nachtleben im Alten Rom (Primusverlag)

Lecture IV

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE

Plan

1. Concept of medieval Europe.

2. Christianity in Byzantium’s culture.

3. Epoch of the Renaissance in modern culturology. Typology and

periodization.

4. Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance.

5. Distinguishing features of the Northern Renaissance.

1. Concept of medieval Europe
The concept of medieval Europe is ambiguous. In general, it means a period

in the European history starting from the collapse of the Roman civilization in the
Vth century BC to the Renaissance period (depending on cultural and regional
particularities, other factors varies from the XIII, XIV to XV c.). At that time the

foundations of a new, secular (non-religious) worldview having broken thousand-

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