HUMANITIES 210 Early Modern Europe

Spring, 2005

WEEK I (January 24-28):

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Stephen Greenblatt, “Learning to Curse,” in his Learning to Curse, 16-39*

Lecture: Shakespeare’s Labor (Sacks)

WEEK II (January 31-February 4):

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Selected Canons from The Council of Trent The Thirteenth and the Twenty-Second Sessions.

available at http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent.htm

Selections from St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (114-16, 121-182)*

John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 89-152

Howard Hibbard, Bernini, pp. 68-167

Robert Harrison, Reflections on the Baroque, pp. 1-32.*

Lecture: Bernini's Art and the Counter Reformation (Weigert)

WEEK III (February 7-11):

Galileo, The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, 23-58, 175-216

Francis Bacon, "The Great Instauration" (from Edwin A. Burtt, ed. The English Philosophers)*

Bacon, "Thoughts and Conclusions"*

Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, 1-117

Lecture: The New Science (Garrett)

WEEK IV (February 14-18):

  Descartes, Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy

Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, 119-165

Lecture: Descartes: The Ghost in the Machine (Sacks)

WEEK V (February 21-25):

Pascal, Pensées, 33-95, 149-164, 210-212

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 58-68; 82-92; 152-164

Lecture: Pascal (Kierstead)

WEEK VI (February 28-March 4): note that there are two lectures this week —one monday, one wednesday— in the psychology auditorium at 1:10

Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvray, The Age of Magnificence: The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, (selected, edited, translated by Sanche de Gramont), 21-23, 185-90, 40-50, 97-100, 135-178*

Bossuet, Jacques- Benigne, Politics Drawn from the Holy Scriptures, pp. 57-106*

Peter Burke, The Fabrication of Louis XI, pp. 1-59, 85-105

Lecture: Versaille and the King's Image (Weigert)

Lecture: Louis XIV: Court and Society in Seventeenth-Century France (Kierstead)

WEEK VII (March 7-11):

Racine, Phaedre

Moliere, Tartuffe

Dunn, The Age of the Religious Wars, 178-189

Lecture: Staging Virtue (Steinman)

—SPRING BREAK (March 14-18)—

WEEK VIII (March 21- March 25):

Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves

WEEK IX (March 28-April 1):

“Agreement of the People,” & “The Putney Debates” (from Divine Right and Democracy,

ed. D. Wootton, 283-317)*

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, 164-178

John Milton, Areopagitica

Dunn, The Age of Religious Wars, chap. 3 & pp. 189-198

Lecture: Uncloistered Virtue (Sacks)

WEEK X (April 4-8):

Hobbes, Leviathan, Book I, Introduction and chapters 1-6, 10, 12-16; Book II, chapters 17-22, 24, 26, 29-31; Book III, chapters 32,43; Review and Conclusion

Lecture: Hobbes and Skepticism (Sacks)

WEEK XI (April 11-16):

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Lecture: Reading the World of the English Revolution (Steinman)

WEEK XII (April 18-22):

John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government

John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Epistle to the Reader, I.I, I.II, II.I,

  II.II, II.VIII, II.XII.1, II.XXIII, III.I, III.II, III.III.1-8, III.X.1-7, IV.1, IV.2, IV.

III.1-6.

Lecture: Locke: Epistemology and Politics (Jenkins)

WEEK XIII (April 25-29):

Voltaire, Candide

Lecture: Paradise, Labor and Liberty Revisited: Enlightenment Taxonomies

(Steinman)

Books for Purchase

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest (ed. S. Orgel). Oxford.

Hum 210 Pamphlet (available for purchase in Bookstore).

Bossy, John. Christianity in the West. Oxford U.P.

Hibbard, Howard. Bernini. Penguin Art and Architecture Series.

Galileo. Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (trans. Stillman Drake). Anchor Books.

Dunn, Richard S. The Age of the Religious Wars: 1559-1715. Norton.

Shapin, Steven. The Scientific Revolution. Chicago.

Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method and Meditations. Hackett.

Pascal, Blaise. Pensees (trans. A.J. Krailsheimer). Penguin Classics.

Burke, Peter. The Fabrication of Louis XIV. Yale.

Racine, Jean. Iphigenia; Phaedra; Athaliah. (trans. John Cairncross). Penguin Classics.

Moliere. Tartuffe (trans. Richard Wilbur). Harcourt Brace.

de Lafayette, Madame. The Princess of Cleves . Norton.

Milton, John. Areopagitica. Liberty Foundation.

Milton, John. Paradise Lost (ed. John Leonard). Penguin Classics.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (ed. Richard Tuck). Cambridge.

Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government Dover Thrift Edition

Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding . ed. Yolton. Abridged edition. Everyman

Voltaire. Candide. (ed. Daniel Gordon) Bedford.

Lectures will be on Mondays unless announced otherwise in class.

* Indicates that readings will be available in the Course Pamphlet.

Online:

The Humanities 210 syllabus at http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/Hum210/index.html