Week 1 (August 30 - September 3)
-Dante, Divine Comedy: Inferno.
-Erwin Panofsky, "Renaissance and Renascences" (pamphlet).
Lecture: The City and the World (Sacks).
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Week 2 (September 7-10, Labor Day holiday Sept. 6)
-Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 2nd Part of the 2nd Part: Question 8, The Gift of Understanding, Question 115, 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 - 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, 1-104.
Lecture: (on Wednesday) The Humanist Response to Scholasticism (Garrett).
Week 3 (September 13-19)
-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 (on reserve)
-Alberti, "On Painting," 1435 (Prologue and selections from Book I, Italian Art 1400-1500, 51-59 (pamphlet).
Lecture: Perspective, Politics, and Piety in Fifteenth-Century Italian Painting (Weigert).
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Week 4 (September 20-24)
-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, 90-109.
Lecture: Impersonating a Courtier (Steinman)
Week 5 (September 27-October 1)
-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (entire; in Selected Political Writings).
-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Discourses, Book I: Preface, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 55; Book II: Chapter 2; Book III: Chapter 41 (in Selected Political Writings).
-Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 110-45.
Lecture: Machiavelli and the Renaissance Art of History (Garrett).
Week 6 (October 4-8)
-Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly.
Lecture: Foolish Rhetoric (Steinman).
Week 7 (October 11-15)
-Thomas More, Utopia.
Lecture: Of the Best State of a Commonwealth (Sacks).
-Fall Break-
Week 8 (October 25-29)
-Bartolomé Las Casas, "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," (pamphlet).
-"The New World" (pamphlet, from the Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West).
-Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain, 88-99, 107-118, 166-188, 189-204.
-Hernan Cortes, "The Letters of Cortes, Selections" (pamphlet).
-Sahagun, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (pamphlet).
Lecture: Flowery Death and Eternal Life (Sacks).
Week 9 (November 1-5)
-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: From Pantagruel to Mr. Hankey, or How Modern is Rabelais? (Weigert).
Week 10 (November 8-12)
-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.
-Erasmus, "Hyperaspites," 96-97; 135-137; 157-160; 296-297 (pamphlet, from Controversies).
-Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 146-177.
Lecture: The Problem of Free Will (Jenkins).
Week 11 (November 15-19)
-S. Lotzer, "Twelve Articles of the Peasantry" (pamphlet; from The German Peasant War of 1525).
-Luther, "Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants" (pamphlet; from Luther's Works, vol 46).
-Natalie Davis, Society and Culture, "The Rites of Violence," 152-187.
-John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700. Part I.
-Jean Calvin, "Of Eternal Election," "On Resistance and Magistracy" (pamphlet; from Institutes of the Christian Religion).
-R.W. Scribner, "Images of Peasants, 1514-1525" (pamphlet, from The German Peasant War of 1525).
Lecture: Reformation and Society (Kierstead).
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Week 12 (November 22-24, Thanksgiving vacation Nov. 25-28)
-Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms.
-Natalie Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, "Reasons of Misrule" and "Women on Top" 97-151.
Lecture: Mennochio's Reasons of Misrule (Sacks).
Week 13 (November 29-December 3)
-Michel de Montaigne, Essays: "On the Power of Imagination," "On Cannibals," "On the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "On Experience."
Lecture: Montaigne: What Do I Know? (Kierstead).
Books for Purchase
Hum 210 Course pamphlet
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)*
Thomas More, Utopia, Ed. Logan (Cambridge)
Bernal Diaz, Conquest of New Spain (Penguin)
Rabelais, Gargantua & Pantagruel, trans. J. M. Cohen (Penguin)*
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)*
*Editions 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.
All readings not required for purchase will be placed on reserve in the Library. In some cases a limited number of copies of books for purchase will also be available on 24-hour reserve. For your convenience, all other reserve books will be on 2-hour desk reserve. Lectures will be on Mondays unless announced otherwise here or in class.