“Flipping the Script” is a history lecture series that highlights people, groups or events in world history that are typically ignored or considered irrelevant in mainstream cultural narratives.

For the final lecture of the series, Samuel Claussen, PhD, will discuss several Renaissance women who wielded power as effectively as their male counterparts. In addition to being a moment of intellectual dynamism and cultural innovation, the Renaissance was also marked by intense warfare and violence. We often think of the Renaissance as a movement dominated by masculine leadership and patriarchal organization, with women serving in passive, submissive or supportive roles. But such a view only tells part of the story.

This series is presented by the History Department faculty and other experts, focusing on different periods in world history. The series is sponsored by Cal Lutheran, the Thousand Oaks Grant R. Brimhall Library and Ventura County Library, and generously funded in part by a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant. For information, contact David Nelson at dnelson@CalLutheran.edu.