Revised Class Schedule
September 29th to October 23rd
| October 25 |
Continuation: Women in the Renaissance |
| October 27 |
Discussion: Renaissance gendered life (Click on the discussion title for the guide questions.) j Francesco Barbaro, “On Wifely Duties,” in Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978), 189-228. j Margaret King, “Book Lined Cells: Women and Humanism…,” in Kohl, Major Problems. For the text, click here. j Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, “Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence,” in Kohl, Major Problems, 319-326. For the text, click here. |
| October 30 |
The Italian Recipe for Change, IV: A New Intellectual World j King, 102-134. |
| November 1 | Early Humanism & Human Potential |
| November 3 |
Discussion:
Petrarch’s Break with the past
(Click on the discussion title for the guide questions.) j Francesco Petrarca, “A Disapproval of the Unreasonable Use… of Dialectic,” in Ernst Cassirer, The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948), 134-139. For the text, click here. j Petrarch, “How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State,” in Kohl and Witt, 35-78. |
| November 6 | Quiz #4: Human Dignity and Humanist Studies (King, Chapter 3) |
| November 8 | NO CLASS MEETING |
| November 10 | NO CLASS MEETING – VETERANS’ DAY |
| November 13 | Civic Humanism |
| November 15 |
Discussion:
Civitas & the active vs. the contemplative life
(Click on the discussion title for the guide questions.) j Coluccio Salutati, “Letter to Pellegrino Zambeccari,” in Kohl and Witt, 81-118. j Salutati, “Letter to Caterina di Messer Vieri,” in Kohl and Witt, 121-175. |
| November 17 | Continuation |
| November 20 |
Response Paper #2 due: The active vs.
the contemplative life
Renaissance Religion, Humanism, and the Church j King, 167-192. j Richard Trexler, “Ritual Behavior in Renaissance Florence,” in Kohl, Major Problems, 393-403. |
| November 22 | NO CLASS MEETING – THANKSGIVING |
| November 24 | NO CLASS MEETING – THANKSGIVING |
| November 27 |
Quiz # 5: The Church and the People (King, Chapter 6) Continuation For the "cheat sheet", click here. |
| December 1 | Humanist ideals embodied: Renaissance art |
| December 4 |
Quiz #6: New Visions (King, Chapter 4) Continuation |
| December 6 | Isolation no more: The Revival of France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire |
| December 8 |
Discussion:
The Italian Wars and The Prince: Can Italy be saved?
(Click on the discussion title for the guide questions.) j Read the lecture notes (available online) 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. j King, 216-222. j Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (New York: Dover Editions), entire. |
| December 11 |
Response Paper #3 due: The Prince
Continuation |
| December 13 |
The Crisis and Beyond j King, Chapters 8 & 9. |
| December 18 | Second Term Examination |