Course Syllabus
Syllabus updated Jan 17 pdf hereWeek 1 (Jan 22): getting started
Th lecture 2: Early modern Europe in global context No sections this week
Week 2 (Jan 29): structures of every day life Monday evening, 7-9pm, Sever 202: Movie screening of The Return of Martin Guerre. We will discuss this film in section this week; if you cannot attend this screening, please view the movie on your own before section (DVD is on reserve in Lamont and the movie is also available for viewing in Lamont’s Language Resource Ctr). For slides shown before the movie and optional background materials click here Section 1—discussing Fedden/Gouberville and the movie Reading--click here to access the reading: *Katharine Fedden ed., and tr., Sire de Gouberville, Journal, pp. 1–35, 70-79, 106–15, 150-60 [as excerpted--previous version of the syllabus had omitted 70-79 and 150-60 in error, but the pdf of excerpts is accurate]. Grafton and Bell, 332 (+ skim 330-335 for general background)
Week 3 (Feb 5): humanism and printing Section 2: discussing Petrarch and Machiavelli ; source review due before section (your choice of this week or next week) Th lecture 6: impacts of Renaissance humanism Special outing Friday 9am-12pm: visit to Houghton Library in groups of 15 (90 minutes each)— for those who absolutely cannot attend segments from HarvardX course “The Book” will be assigned Reading--click here to access the reading: *Petrarch, Letters on Familiar Matters, IV, 1 (Mont Ventoux), XII, 2 (education of a prince), XIII, 7 (mania for writing), XVI, 4 (wavering faith), XXI, 8 (heroic women), XXIII, 21 (to Caesar), XXIV, 3-4 (to Cicero), 7 (to Quintilian), 8 (to Virgil), 13 (to his Socrates—his friend Ludwig van Kempen). Seniles 18.1: Letter to posterity, tr. James Harvey Robinson (1914). *Machiavelli, Discourses, book I, preface, ch 1-2, 9-10, 17-20, 26, 32-35. And Letter to Francesco Vettori, 10 December 1513. Grafton and Bell, 324-30, 337-39 (top of page), 349-51, 356-68 (though pp. 361-7 will on art will also be relevant to week 7)
Week 4 (Feb 12): religious Reformations Section 3: discussing Luther, Calvin and Sadoleto; source review due before section (if you did not write one last week) Th lecture 8: impacts of the Reformation Reading: *Luther, Address to the Christian nobility of the German nation, 1520 *John Calvin and Jacopo Sadoleto, A Reformation Debate, ed. John Olin [available entire for download on Hollis] Grafton and Bell, pp. 370-90 and 394-96
Week 5 (Feb 19): cultural consequences of disruption Section 4: discussing the witchcraze Th lecture 10: wars of religion and political thought Reading--click here to access the reading *Jean Bodin, On the Demon-mania of witches (1586), tr. Randy Scott (1995), excerpts *Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book III, ch. 11 “Of cripples” *Short sources on witchcraft: Malleus maleficarum, Witch trials at Trier, Bonn, Bamberg and Würzburg Grafton and Bell, pp. 398-406
Week 6 (Feb 26): civil war in England T lecture 11: English civil war I Section 5: discussing the causes of the English civil war Th lecture 12 : English civil war II + some midterm review Reading--click to access the readings *"The Petition of Right (1628) presented to Charles I by Parliament. presented by Mark Kishlansky, who models a "source review" analysis. Excerpted from Kishlansky, Sources of the West, vol. 1, pp. xiii-xxii. *Grand Remonstrance of the English Parliament and response of Charles I; Nathaniel Crouch, Death of Charles I Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, excerpts from ch 13-15, 17-18 Grafton and Bell, 440-446, 464-66, 476-78
Week 7 (March 5): midterm interlude Section 6: visit to map room Th: visit to Art Museum Reading: Grafton and Bell, 359, 361-67, 433-34, 441-42, 466-70, 494, art on 529-30.
Spring break (March 12-16)
Week 8 (March 19): political configurations T lecture 13 –absolutism in France (Louis XIII and XIV) Section 7: discussing the letters of Charlotte von der Pfalz (some source reviews due) Th lecture 14: the new science (Bacon and Descartes) Reading--click here to access the reading Short translated text realting to Dr. Goeing’s lecture TBD * The Correspondence of Madame Princess Palatine, ed and tr. Katharine Prescott Wormeley (1899), letters 1695-1715, intro p. 1-16 + primary source pp. 39-81. Grafton and Bell, 419-21, 430-36 (top of page), 446, 459–63
Week 9 (March 26) : scientific revolution T lecture 15: Free Imperial Cities and the Holy Roman Empire [guest lecturer: Dr Anja-Silvia Goeing] Section 8: discussing Bacon and Descartes (some source reviews due) Th lecture 16: discovering new places Reading or click here for access *Francis Bacon, Novum organum excerpts (preface, dedication, distribution of the works) *Descartes, Discourse on Method parts. 1–4. Grafton and Bell, 345-49, 351-56, 411-19, 438
Week 10 (April 2): Expanding Horizons Section 9: discussing Cabeza de Vaca, Evliya Çelebi, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Th lecture 18: the Ottoman Empire [guest lecturer: Daria Kovaleva] Reading--click here to access the readings *Cabeza de Vaca, excerpts *Evliya Çelebi, An Ottoman Traveller , excerpts *Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Complete Letters, ed. Robert Halsband, vol 1: 1708-1720, excerpts Giancarlo Casale, Ottoman Age of Exploration, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 3-12 196-203 Grafton and Bell, 466-70, 489-94 + on Ottomans: 335, 485 (siege of Vienna), 495 (coffeehouses)
Week 11 (April 9): Ancients and moderns T lecture 19: Imperial programs [guest lecturer: Nate Aschenbrenner] Section 10: discussing Spinoza and Montesquieu (some source reviews due) Th lecture 20: Early Enlightenment Reading--click here for access *Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise: preface and chs. 19 and 20, pp. 2-8, 150-62 James Muldoon, Empire and Order: The Concept of Empire, 800–1800, 114–38 Grafton and Bell, 495-502
Week 12 (April 16): Toward the French Revolution T lecture 21: 18th century Enlightenment Section 11: discussing Voltaire, Diderot and "Rights of Man" Th lecture 22 : The French Revolution Reading--click here to access the readings: Voltaire, Letters on England: 7 (Socinians), 10 (trade), 13 (Locke), 15 (Descartes and Newton) https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.asp *D’Alembert and Diderot, Encyclopédie, articles entitled: art [by Diderot], cannibals, men of letters [by Voltaire], press [by Jaucourt], priests [by d'Holbach] *Declarations of the Rights of Man (1789), selections (linked above)
Week 13 (April 23): wrapping up Final section: view a historical movie of your choice (from this list or another with approval of the instructor) Reading: Rosenstone and Herlihy in The American Historical Review, 93:5 (December, 1988), 1173-1192.
Movie review due Wed May 2 at noon Review session confirmed for Wed May 2 4-5pm in Sever 202
Final exam: Friday May 11, 9am
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