II. 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 Renaissance: Are We There Yet? (Steinman).

III. Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies, 3-32; 36-51; 62-64; 67-77; 86-95; 110-113; 117-120; 142-150; 153-156; 160-162; 164-168; 184-190; 217-222; 254-257.
Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy, 29-93 [optional: 1-27, 94-108].
Lecture: Christine de Pizan as City Planner (Steinman).

IV. 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.
Randolph Starn and Loren Partridge, Arts of Power, 83-148 (reserve)
Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 18-44, 90-109.
Lecture (on Monday): Art of the Renaissance (Parshall).
Lecture (on Wednesday): Impersonating A Courtier: Castiglioni's Unsettled World (Steinman)

V. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.
Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, pp. 110-45.
Lecture: Five Machiavellian Myths (Bedau).

VI. Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly.
Lecture: Rhetoric and Fools (Steinman).

VII. Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain, 88-99, 107-118, 166-188, 189-204.
Bartolome Las Casas, "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," (pamphlet).
Hernan Cortes, "The Letters of Cortes, Selections" (pamphlet).
Inga Clendinnen, "Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty" (pamphlet)
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest, edited by Migue Leon-Portilla, 3-144.
Lecture: Confronting New Worlds (Knapp).

FALL BREAK 17-25 OCTOBER

VIII. Thomas More, Utopia.
Lecture: Christian Humanism as a Political Philosophy (Garrett).

IX. 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 (reserve).
Lecture: The Invention of Literature (Knapp).

X. 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: High and Low: Elite and Popular Culture in the Renaissance. (Kierstead).

XI. M. Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian" in Luther, Three Treatises, 277-316 (reserve).
Luther and Erasmus, "Free Will and Salvation," 35-51, 68-69, 89-91, 101-144, 169-173, 208-215, 246-249, 329-334 (pamphlet).
Natalie Davis, Society and Culture, "The Rites of Violence," 152-187.
Rice/Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 146-177.
Lecture: Human Freedom and Divine Necessity: Erasmus vs. Luther (Bedau).

XII. Luther, "Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants" (pamphlet).
S. Lotzer, "Twelve Articles of the Peasantry," (pamphlet).
John Sleidan, The General History of the Reformation (1555), selections (pamphlet).
Steven Ozment, Reformation in the Cities, chap. 2 (reserve).
Natalie Davis, Society and Culture, "City Women and Religious Change," 65-95.
Jean Calvin, "Of Eternal Election" (pamphlet).
Lecture: Reformation and Society (Knapp).

XIII. 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:

Course Pamphlet (available for purchase in Bookstore)
Dante, The Divine Comedy of Dante Aligheri: Inferno, trans. A. Mandelbaum (Bantam)
E. Cassirer, Renaissance Philosophy of Man (Yale)
E. Rice and A. Grafton, Foundations of Early Modern Europe (Norton).
Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies (Persea).
M. Baxandall, Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy (Oxford).
Castiglione, Book of the Courtier (Penguin).
Machiavelli, The Prince (Cambridge).
Erasmus, Praise of Folly (Penguin).
Thomas More, Utopia (Cambridge).
Bernal Diaz, Conquest of New Spain (Penguin).
Migue Leon Portilla ed., The Broken Spears (Beacon).
Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin).
Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms (Johns Hopkins).
Natalie Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford).
M. de Montaigne, Essays (Penguin).

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 reserve. For your convenience reserve books will be on two-hour desk reserve. Lectures will be on Mondays unless announced otherwise in class.

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