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Day
Date
Topic
Presentation
Due
Week 1        
Monday 6/3 Introduction    
Tuesday 6/4

Protestant Reformation. Read:

   
Wednesday 6/5

Renaissance Italy and its Precursors

   
Thursday 6/6

Humanism

   
Friday 6/7

Humanism in Art (Raphael)

The Art of Renaissance Science
Sonnets

  • Vol1: "Renaissance Lyric Poetry" 2203-2208
  • Petrarch: on the nature of poetry
  • Vol 1: Petrarch sonnets CCLXV and CCCLXV (1874-5)
  • Ronsard "To Cassandre" 2212
  • Shakespeare 116, 130 (2247-8)
  • Herbert, "Prayer"
   
Week 2        
Monday 6/10

Royalty and Politics

Tudors

Stuarts

 
Tuesday 6/11

Cavalier Poets

Printing Press and the first books

Baroque Art

 

 

 
Wednesday 6/12 NO CLASS    
Thursday 6/13

Courtesy Books

Politics and Revolution; Printing and Propaganda

  • Milton; Paradise Lost (Books 1-II.628)

Puritanism

Civil Wars

 
Friday 6/14

Metaphysical Poets

Food and Drink

Restoration

 

 
Week 3        
Monday 6/17

The beginnings of modern philosophy

Hobbes and Locke

   
Tuesday 6/18

Vol 1: Boccacio's Da Cameron (1876-1916)

Michangelo

Leonardo

 
Wednesday 6/19

Voyages of Discovery:

Renaissane architecture

The English and Spanish explorers

 
Thursday 6/20

Women and Education

 

Women and Education

 

 
Friday 6/21 movie: Restoration    
Week 4        
Monday 6/24

Psychology

Renaissance Music

Renaissance Dress

 
Tuesday 6/25

Biography and Autobiography

   
Wednesday 6/26

The Scientific Method

Witchcraft  
Thursday 6/27

Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act 1 & 2

   
Friday 6/28

Shakespeare's The Tempest Act 3 & 4

   
Week 5        
Monday 7/1 Shakespeare's The Tempest Act 5    
Tuesday 7/2

Review. John Lienhard's Renaissance.

   
Wednesday 7/3 FINAL EXAM (review study guide)