WEEK I (September 2-6) [Labor Day holiday Sept. 1]:

Dante, Divine Comedy: Inferno.

Erwin Panofsky, "Renaissance and Renascences" (pamphlet).

Lecture: (on Wednesday) Dantean Allegory and the Modernity of medieval florence (Knapp).

WEEK II (September 8-12) :

Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 2nd Part of the 2nd Part: Question 8, The Gift of Understanding, Question115, Flattery, and Question 182, The Active Life in Comparison With the Contemplative Life. The Summa is available on the World Wide Web at www.newadvent.org/summa. The required reading is at the following sites: www.newadvent.org/summa/300800.htm, www.newadvent.org/summa/311500.htm, and www.newadvent.org/summa/318200.htm. Note that Question 8 has 8 parts; Question 115 has 2 parts; and Question 182 has 4 parts&emdash;be sure to read them all. Copies of this reading will also be on reserve.

Petrarch, "Ascent of Mount Ventoux," Renaissance Philosophy of Man, edited by Cassirer et al., 36-46

Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man," Renaissance Philosophy of Man, 215-254.

Rice/Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1-18; 45-104.

Lecture: (on Wednesday) The Humanist Response to Scholasticism (Garrett).

WEEK III (September 15-21):

Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy, 29-93 [optional: 1-27, 94-108].

Randolph Starn and Loren Partridge, Arts of Power, 83-148 (reserve)

Creighton Gilbert, "The Artist as Book Author," Italian Art 1400-1500 (on reserve).

Lecture: Perspective, Politics, and Piety in Fifteenth-Century Italian Painting (Weiger

WEEK IV (September 22-26):

Castiglione, Book of the Courtier, Prologue, 31-36; Book I, 39-45, 51-98, 102-104; Book II, 107-133, 199-202; Book III, 208-231, 274-277; Book IV, 281-282, 288-304, 315-345.

Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 18-44, 90-109.

Lecture: Self-Fashioning in a Theater of Power (Sacks)

WEEK V (September 29-October 3):

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (entire).

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Discourses, Book I: Preface, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 55; Book II: Chapter 2; Book III: Chapter 41 (both in Selected political Writings).

Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 110-45.

Lecture: Five Myths about Machiavelli (Bedau).

WEEK VI (October 6-10):

Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly.

Lecture: Folly, Faith, and Paradiastole (Knapp).

WEEK VII (October 13-17):

Thomas More, Utopia.

Lecture: Of the Best State of a Commonwealth (Sacks).

Fall Break

WEEK VIII (October 27-31):

Bartolomé Las Casas, "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," (pamphlet).

"The New World" (pamphlet).

Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain, 88-99, 107-118, 166-188, 189-204.

Hernan Cortes, "The Letters of Cortes, Selections" (pamphlet).

We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (pamphlet).

Lecture: Flowery Death and Eternal Life (Sacks).

WEEK IX (November 3-7):

Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel: 1) Pantagruel, Prologue and chapters 1-9, 16, 23-34 and

2) Gargantua, Prologue and chapters 1, 3-8, 14-17, 21-32, 34-36, 48-57.

Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, 59-101 (pamphlet).

Lecture: Literature and Morality in Rabelais (Knapp).

WEEK X (November 10-14):

M. Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian" in Luther, Three Treatises, 277-316 (pamphlet).

Luther and Erasmus, "Free Will and Salvation," 35-64, 68-69, 74-79, 85-97, 101-144, 169-173, 208-215, 246-249, 329-334 (pamphlet).

Erasmus, "Hyperaspites," 96-97; 135-137; 157-160; 296-297 (pamphlet).

Natalie Davis, Society and Culture, "The Rites of Violence," 152-187.

Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 146-177.

Lecture: Free-Will and Divine Determination (Bedau).

WEEK XI (November 17-21):

S. Lotzer, "Twelve Articles of the Peasantry" (pamphlet).

Luther, "Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants" (pamphlet).

John Sleidan, The General History of the Reformation (1555), selections (pamphlet).

John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700. Part I.

Jean Calvin, "Of Eternal Election," "On Resistance and Magistracy" (pamphlet).

Lecture: Reformation and Society (Kierstead).

WEEK XII (November 24-26) [Thanksgiving vacation Nov. 27-30]:

Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms.

Natalie Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, "Reasons of Misrule," 97-123.

Lecture: Mennochio's Reasons of Misrule (Sacks).

WEEK XIII (December 1-5):

Michel de Montaigne, Essays: "On the Power of Imagination," "On Cannibals," "On the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "On Experience."

Lecture: The Complexity of Montaigne's Skepticism (Bedau).

Books for Purchase

Hum 210 Course pamphlet (on electronic reserve)

John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700. (Oxford)

Dante, The Divine Comedy of Dante Aligheri: Inferno, trans. J. Hollander (Doubleday)

E. Cassirer, Renaissance Philosophy of Man (UCP)

E. Rice and A. Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe (Norton)

M. Baxandall, Painting & Experience in 15th-Century Italy (Oxford)

Castiglione, Book of the Courtier (Penguin)

Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings, Ed. Wootton (Hackett)

Erasmus, Praise of Folly, Ed. Radice, revised edition (Penguin, 1994)Ý

Thomas More, Utopia, Ed. Logan (Cambridge)

Bernal Diaz, Conquest of New Spain (Penguin)

Rabelais, Gargantua & Pantagruel, trans. J. M. Cohen (Penguin)Ý

Luther and Erasmus, Free Will and Salvation, Ed. Rupp (Westminster John Knox Press)

Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese & the Worms (Johns Hopkins)

Natalie Davis, Society & Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford)

M. de Montaigne, Essays, trans. Cohen (Penguin, 1993)Ý

ÝEditions so marked differ in pagination from others with this title by the same publisher; if you buy a different edition, be sure to consult one of the editions on reserve in order to arrive at the correct pagination for your edition.

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