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TOPICS |
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Introduction: The History of Renaissance History. |
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Geography, Demography, Global Trade, 1300-1600. |
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Le Roy Ladurie. Montaillou. Pp. 3-135. |
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The World of the Peasantry, ca. 1300. |
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Le Roy Ladurie. Montaillou. Pp. 139-230. |
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The Black Death. |
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Herlihy. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Pp. 1-81.
Boccaccio. Introduction to The Decameron (Course Reader [CR]).
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Map quiz. |
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The Discarded Image. |
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Ross and McLaughlin. The Portable Renaissance Reader (RR). Pp. 580-3. |
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First paper due. |
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The Beginnings of Humanism in Fourteenth-Century Italy. |
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Rice and Grafton. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (RG). Pp. 1-10, 77-90.
RR. Pp. 120-30.
Petrarch. The Ascent of Mount Ventoux (CR).
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Second paper due. |
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Civic Humanism in Early Fifteenth-Century Italy and beyond. |
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Introduction and Bruni's Panegyric to the City of Florence (CR).
RR. Pp. 476-9.
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Art and Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. |
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RG. Pp. 90-114.
RR. Pp. 140-5, 527-40.
Baxandall. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Pp. 1-27.
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A Visit to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. |
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Baxandall. Pp. 29-153. |
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Third paper due. |
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Burgundy and Late Medieval Politics in the North. |
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RR. Pp. 185-202. |
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The New Monarchies and the Invasion of Italy. |
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RG. Pp. 110-45.
RR. Pp. 279-94.
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Politics Reinvented. |
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Machiavelli. The Prince (all). |
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Christian Humanism in the North. |
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RR. Pp. 80-6, 401-8, 717-21.
Erasmus. Julius Excluded From Heaven (all) (CR).
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Martin Luther and the Protestant Challenge. |
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RG. Pp. 146-77.
RR. Pp. 677-703.
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The Age of Reformations. |
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RG. Pp. 178-202.
RR. Pp. 234-41.
Lyndal Roper. "Sexual Utopianism in the German Reformation." In Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge, 1994 (CR).
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Fourth paper due. |
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Sixteenth-Century Peasants I. |
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Davis. The Return of Martin Guerre. Pp. 1-61. |
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Sixteenth-Century Peasants II. |
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Davis. The Return of Martin Guerre. Pp. 62-125. |
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Fifth paper due. |
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1543: The Copernican Revolution. |
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RG. Pp. 18-26.
RR. Pp. 584-611.
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1543: The Vesalian Revolution. |
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RR. Pp. 552-73. |
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Visit to the Dibner Library.
Sixth paper due.
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20. |
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Individual consultations with instructor. |
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21. |
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Review. |
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Portuguese Expansion. |
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RG. Pp. 32-38. |
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Spanish Exploration. |
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RG. Pp. 38-44.
RR. Pp. 146-57.
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24. |
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Spanish Conquest. |
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Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson. Colonial Latin America. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, Pp. 41-50 (CR).
Stuart B. Schwartz, ed. Victors and Vanquished. Boston: St. Martin's, 2000, pp. 182-213 (CR).
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25. |
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Long paper due. |
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Scientists, Magicians, and Humanists. |
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John Henry. "Magic and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." In R.C. Olby et al., eds. Companion to the History of Modern Science. London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 583-96 (CR). |
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27. |
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Literary Magic. |
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Shakespeare. The Tempest (all). |
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