Engl350: The RenaissanceU

What were "concessions"?
What products did Venice get from the Ottoman empire?
What was one prerequisite to the European Renaissance, and how did the Ottoman empire supply that?

What new area of study did Said's Orientalism pioneer?
What "question" does Said's Orientalism try to ask?
Orientalism, according to the film, is a "lens." Explain.
How did representations of the "east" in art differ from Said's experience? Give an example.
Give some examples of the "repertory of images" that kept coming up in describing the "orient" by artists and "experts" in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What event does Said say inaugurated "orientalism"? Explain.
Said says that America imports its view of non-western countries from Israel, and that everything America learns about Arabs is "colored by the conflict" between Arabs and Israel. Explain or give an example.
Give an example of how Islam is "demonized" by journalism and Hollywood.
What popular movie characterized Saudi Arabia as "Barbaric, but hey, it's home"?
What was the immediate media response to the Oklahoma City bombing?
What event, according to the film's host, "drives Said"? What will finding a peaceful solution require?
What is the goal of "comparative literature," according to Said?

Video 3: An Islamic history of the European Renaissance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfhZR15QRKA (2 hours)

Why was Spain in turmoil before the arrival of Islam?
What kind of amenities did Islamic Spain have that Paris wouldn't see for centuries?
What early Moslem innovations had a huge impact on medicine?
What innovations made Toledo the "astronomical center of the whole Western world"?
How did Toledo play a role in the recovery of ancient Greek culture?
Who prayed to Christ in Arabic? What other signs of its Moslem past can be found in Sicily?
How did Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor, spread Moslem culture as far as Paris, and what works initiated the classical revival because of a line-by-line commentary?
What is the "double-truth" principle?
How did an Islamic scientist, studying Galen, contribute to the notion of blood circulation?
Where did Moors go after they were expelled from Granada? What laws made Moors' lives intolerable?
What is the Valley of blood? What legends surround it?
What was the fate of Jews in 1492 and after?
How does the "real story of Christopher Columbus" show how tolerance made Spain a colonial power?