HUMANITIES 210 Early Modern Europe
Spring 2006
WEEK I (January 23-27):
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Stephen Greenblatt, “Learning to Curse,” in his Learning to Curse, 16-39*
Lecture: Shakespeare’s Labor (Sacks)
WEEK II (January 30-February 3):
Selected Canons from The Council of Trent The Thirteenth and the Twenty-Second Sessions.
available at http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent.htmSelections 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 (Katz)
WEEK III (February 6-10):
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 13-17):
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 20-24):
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 27-March 3):
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 (Katz)
Lecture: Louis XIV: Court and Society in Seventeenth-Century France (Kierstead)
WEEK VII (March 6-10):
Racine, Phaedre
Moliere, Tartuffe
Dunn, The Age of the Religious Wars, 178-189
Lecture: Staging Virtue (Steinman)
— SPRING BREAK (March 13-17) —
WEEK VIII (March 20- March 24):
Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves
Lecture: The Subject of Power (Steinman)
WEEK IX (March 27-31):
“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 3-7):
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 10-15):
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Lecture: Reading the World of the English Revolution (Steinman)
WEEK XII (April 17-21):
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.XVII, II.XXIII, III.I, III.II, III.III.1-8, III.X.1-7, IV.1, IV.II, IV.
III.1-6.Lecture: Locke: Epistemology and Politics (Jenkins)
WEEK XIII (April 24-28):
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