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Week
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Tuesday
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Thursday
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1
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10 January 2005
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12 January 2005
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General Introduction
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2
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17 January 2005
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19 January 2005
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Read: Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods,
Discuss: Renaissance Culture and Society |
Humanism:
Read: The
Renaissance in Europe
- Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo
Valla, Leonardo Bruni, Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, Francesco
Guicciardini, Machiavelli -- to be assigned in class
Contemporary attitudes to knowledge
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3
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24 January 2005
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26 January 2005
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Read: Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods,
- Chapter 1, Conditions for Change: Goods in Profusion
Discuss: Urbanization and political absolutism
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Trade, expansion,
and their technologies
Read: Richard Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries To be
assigned in class
- IX,XI, XII, XIV, XXIV, XXXIV, XXXVI, XL, XLIV, XLVI
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4
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31 January 2005
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2 February 2005
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Read: Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods
- Chapter 2, The Price of Magnificence
Discuss: International Finance |
Read: The Renaissance
in Europe
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5
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7 February 2005
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9 February 2005
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Read: Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods
- Chapter 3, The Triumph of the Book
- Visit the Library of Congress exhibition
on The
Vatican Library and Humanism; read the descriptions and
look at the MSS: sections to be assigned
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Impact
of the printing revolution Read
handout: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein,
- "The emergence of
print culture in the West: 'Defining the initial shift'"
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6
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14 February 2005
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16 February 2005
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Break: no class
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Read: Lisa Jardine, Worldy Goods
- Chapter 4: Learning to be Civilized
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7
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21 February 2005
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23 February 2005
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Read: Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods
- Chapter 5: Expertise for Sale
Discuss: Artists, architects, engineers, physicians,
experts |
Expertise for Sale
- Discuss: Funding and investment in scientific and technological
research
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8
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28 February 2005
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2 March 2005
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Read: Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods
- Chapter 6: A Culture of Commodities
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Culture
of Commodities
Discussion of modern culture
of commodities
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9
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7 March 2005
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9 March 2005
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Read: Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods
- Chapter 7: Mapping the Heavens
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Religion,
Trade, Science, and Technology
Readings from: The
Renaissance in Europe
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10
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14 March 2005
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16 March 2005
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No class: Spring
Break
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No Class: Spring Break
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11
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21 March 2005
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23 March 2005
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In-class
discussion of wasting disease in cloven-hoofed animals!!
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Renaissance Military Revolution
- Handout:
Steven Gunn: War, Religion, and the State.
Due: Please
turn in an annotated bibliography, with any preliminary text you
have
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12
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28 March 2005
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30 March 2005
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Renaissance
War and Society
- Handout:
Geoffrey Parker, "The Etiquette of Atrocity"
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Read: DARPA,
“Bridging
the Gap”
Discussion:
Modern warfare; Biological and Chemical Warfare; Long-range technology;
urban combat; etc.
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13
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4 April 2005
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6 April 2005
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Military
Revolutions and Society
- Readings from: MacGregor
Knox and Williamson Murray,
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
- To be assigned in class
- Write
a summary and analysis of what what you read
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Military
Revolutions and Society
- Readings from: MacGregor
Knox and Williamson Murray,
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
- To be assigned in class
- Write
a summary and analysis of what what you read
Due: Full blocked
outline, Introduction, and any preliminary text
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14
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11 April 2005
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13 April 2005
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No Class:
work on projects
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No Class: work on projects
Have a draft finished by Tuesday,
18 April
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15
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18 April 2005
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20 April 2005
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- Due: Substantial draft of Project
paper for Peer review in class
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Reports:
Section 01 (1:00): Melinda, Marianna,
David Swan, kyle, Andrea
Section 02 (2:30): Josh Smith, Jeff;
Sarah, Lynda
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16
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25 April 2005
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27 April 2005
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Reports:
Section 01 (1:00):
Norm,
Christa, Peter, Dan, Mike Gumuka, Andy
Section 02 (2:30):
Danielle,
Kirsten, Josh Harwood, David, Hali, Tim
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Reports:
Section 01 (1:00): Mike
Ronan, Chris, Ken, Sig, David, Conner.
Section 02 (2:30):
Hope, Romana, Adam, Kim, Justin
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Exams
Week: 1- 5 May:
There is no exam. Turn
in final draft of paper on Monday, 1 May.
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