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Anthropocentric homiletics is a homiletics of the twentieth century , but one that has its roots in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment when the individual became the center of the universe and , as Gustafson has suggested , the tables turned . Chapter 4 begins the second part of the book , the reading of medieval and Renaissance texts in light of this tradition of epic truth mediated through Job and Boethius . He teaches undergraduate classes in Shakespeare , the classical and continental backgrounds of the Renaissance , and drama . Among the most influential poets of the Harlem Renaissance , Langston Hughes is perhaps best remembered for the innovative use of jazz rhythms in his writing . Whatever else Western intellectual history may be about , it necessarily includes occasional reflections on the function of its manifold renaissances . As one of the Speakers in this Fourth African Renaissance KZN Festival , I share the platform with a delegation of comrades from the Republic of Mozambique , led by the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs & Cooperation , Dr Leonardo Simao . Wassail begins at 6:30 p.m. and the feast begins at 7 p.m ., with music provided by Hope College 's Collegium Musicum vocal ensemble and dance from the Renaissance Dancers . By the time of the Renaissance , the Church was an enormously rich and cynical center of political ambition , with the papacy largely subservient to secular tyrants . And then , too , renaissances of one sort or another are by no means beyond the range of possibility . Her monograph on music and courtly ideologies in the Renaissance , Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France ( Chicago 2000 ) won the American Sixteenth Century Society and Conference 's Roland H. Bainton prize for the best book in music or art history to be published that year . Examines a series of Medieval and Renaissance texts in order to explore the various ways that the Arthurian cycle was translated and adapted , from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Thomas Malory . There follow , to name the most prominent , the eruption of monumental Romanesque sculpture in the later eleventh century ; the successive Italian Renaissances from Giotto to Michelangelo ; the capture of optical sensation by the French Impressionists ; and the Cubists ' confounding ingrained habits of spatial perception . Initiative , has selected four Renaissance Teams , representing 37 elementary , middle , and high schools serving 27,000 students in Silicon Valley , to receive financial and human-resources assistance to improve their educational processes . Starting with the Romans under whom it took the form of " classical antiquity " or " Greco-Roman civilization , " these renaissances have inevitably presupposed a philhellenism , that is , admiration , even adulation of " the Greeks " as somehow exemplary for self-formation , civic education , and philosophical inquiry . A prominent figure in California 's poetry scene for decades , Joanne Kyger writes poetry influenced by her practice of Zen Buddhism and her ties to the poets of Black Mountain , the San Francisco Renaissance , and the Beat Generation . Syllabus : This course will examine aspects of the impact of Roman example on the Carolingian and Ottonian renaissances , the convergence of Christian and Islamic influences in Spain , Sicily and the Crusader states , and the startling efflorescence of large cathedrals after the millennium . Apparently the varied manifestations of these renaissances , including the particularly prominent case of quattrocento Italy , are indispensable ( at least until the mid-twentieth century ) for the continued rejuvenation of something called " Western civilization .