| discuss the Renaissance spirit which is based on such emerging concepts as secularism, individualism, and humanism in social, political, and literary context verbally or in a research paper. |
| critically interpret the connection between the decline of feudalism (and of aristocracy) and the rise of the bourgeoisie in literary, social, political, and historical context verbally or in a research paper. |
| illustrate the causality and link between the fall of aristocracy and the decline of the Catholic Church and the rise of the bourgeoisie and the emergence of Protestantism (bourgeois reading of the Bible) in social and political context verbally or in a research paper. |
| outline the similarities and differences between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in social, political, and literary context verbally or in a research paper. |
| compare and contrast medieval literary texts and literary texts from the Renaissance in terms of their distinctive features which are based on social, political, and literary background verbally or in a research paper. |