IT 1751 Lecture 5: AP:IT 1751 - Lecture 5 - Boccaccio's Decameron: Freedom, Intelligence, and Desire 2
17 Oct 2018
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Humanism is the start of the renaissance and any survey of human culture, the dawn of modernity. Boccaccio presents a paradigm of the world that spans from the 1300s to the. All the aspects of life shapes a new conscience, which shapes our actions and our view of the world on a large scale. Boccaccio shapes the world and a new concept of the individual. Doesn"t mean god has disappeared, it just means the relationship is perceived in a different way. Boccaccio"s time is a time of transition from a society dominated by nobility and a hierarchical system to the. Gramsci/hegemony: the dominant belief systems are shaped by the dominant class. The shift to the merchant world triggers the desire for worldly pleasures and sin. For the church, the decameron is so insulting to the faith of the time that it gets prohibited by the church.
