Class Syllabus

JANUARY
 
  Introduction
16

Introduction: St. Augustine and the Late Antique World
 

Augustine -

18

Augustine, Confessions (Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 9)
  Bernard of Clairvaux -
23

Bernard of Clairvaux:
On Conversion - HTML version or RTF version
On Song of Songs - HTML version or RTF version
  Abelard (& Heloise)
25

Peter Abelard, Dialogue of a Philosopher, Jew, and Christian AND The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  Hildegard of Bingen -
30

Hildegard of Bingen:
Scivias - HTML version or RTF version
FEBRUARY
 
  Women Troubadours
  Dante -
6
Dante's Inferno (Cantos 1-5, 9)
8
Dante's Inferno (Cantos 11, 15-16, 25-end)
  Marie de France -
15

Marie de France, Lais
15

Marie de France, Lais
  Chaucer -
20

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
22

Chaucer, "The Miller's Prologue and Tale"
27

Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"
MARCH
 
  Mystics
1

Middle English Mystics: Richard Rolle
Ego Dormio - HTML version or RTF version

  More -
6

Thomas More: Utopia
  Machiavelli -
8

Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
  Reformation
20

The Protestant Reformation (1,2,4,5,6,15,17,19, and 22)
  Montaigne -
22

Michel de Montaigne: Essays (Book I pp25-137)
  Marlowe -
27

Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
  Shakespeare -
29

Shakespeare: King Lear
APRIL
 
  Shakespeare
3

Shakespeare: King Lear
  Cervantes -
5

Cervantes: Don Quijote (Chapters 1-10, 21-26)
10

Cervantes: Don Quijote (Chapters 27-32, 36-52)
12

Class Trip - Rare Book Room
(NOTE: make up Descartes: Discourse on Method class TBA)
  Galileo -
17

Galileo Galilei: "Starry Messenger" and "Letter to the Grand Duchess" and their Introductions
  Milton -
19

John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books 1, 4, and 5, and all "arguments" for books 1 through 6)
24

John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books 8, 9, and 10, and all "arguments" for books 7 through 12)
Paradise Lost, Book IX

  Sor Juana -
26

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: Poems, Protest, and a Dream (selections)