Revised Class Schedule

September 29th to October 23rd

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September 29

 The Italian Recipe for Change, I: The Commercial Revolution

  • Read the lecture notes (click here)

  • Review King, 18-22.

  • Richard Goldthwaite, “The Preconditions for Luxury,” in Benjamin Kohl and Alison Andrews Smith, eds.  Major Problems in the History of the Renaissance (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath &Co., 1995), 61-67.  For the text, click here.

 Note: you must read this material prior to today's meeting, as we will not discuss this material in class, but rather build upon it.
October 2  The Italian Recipe for Change, II: The communal revolution & the rise of city-states

  • King, The Renaissance in Europe, 33-62 & 197-216.

  • Read the lecture notes (click here) 

 Note: you must read this lecture prior to today's meeting, as we will not discuss this material in class, but rather build upon it.
October 4  Continuation: The rise of city-states
October 6  Continuation: The rise of city-states
October 9  Quiz #3: At Home and in the Piazza (King, Chapter 5)

 The Italian Recipe for Change, III: Social characteristics

  • King, The Renaissance in Europe, 138-164.

  • David Herlihy, “Social Mobility in Florence,” in Kohl, Major Problems, 94-99.  For the text, click here.

  • Diane Owens Hughes, “Sumptuary Law and Social Relations in Renaissance Italy,” in Kohl, Major Problems, 362-373.  For the text, click here.
October 11  Kinship & Patronage Networks
October 13     Discussion: Real and imagined communities (Click on the discussion title for the guide questions.)

  • Richard Trexler, “The Friendship of Citizens,” in Public Life in Renaissance Florence (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), 131- 58. (For the text, click here: Part I, Part II)

  • Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, "'Kin, Friends, and Neighbors': The Urban Territory of a Merchant Family in 1400," in Women, Family and Ritual in    Renaissance  Italy (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1985), 68-93. (For the text, click here: Part I, Part II)

Note: These are the readings upon which, in conjunction with your textbook and class discussion, you must base your first paper.
October 16   Continuation
October 18 

 Response Paper #1 Due: Kinship & Patronage

 Women in the Renaissance
October 20  

Discussion: Renaissance gendered life

  • Francesco Barbaro, “On Wifely Duties” in The Earthly Republic.

  • Margaret King, “Book Lined Cells: Women and Humanism…,” in Kohl, Major Problems.  For the text, click here.

  • Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, “Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence,” in Kohl, Major Problems, 319-326.  For the text, click here.
October 23    First Term Examination (For the review sheet, click here.)

             

 

              

 

                

 

               

 

               

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