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Introduction: The History of Renaissance History |
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| 2 |
Geography, Demography, Global Trade, 1300-1600 |
Leroy-Ladurie. Montaillou. pp. 3-135. |
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The World of the Peasantry ca. 1300 |
Leroy-Ladurie. Montaillou. pp. 139-230. |
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The Black Death |
Tuchman, Barbara. "'This is the end of the world': The Black Death." In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1987. pp. 92-125.
Boccaccio. Introduction to The Decameron. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2002. pp. 49-68. |
| 5 |
The Discarded Image |
RR. pp. 580-3. |
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The Beginnings of Humanism in Fourteenth-Century Italy |
RG. pp. 1-10, 77-90.
RR. pp. 120-30.
Petrarch. The Secret. pp. 1-70, 149-58. |
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Petrarch |
Petrarch. The Secret. pp. 70-148. |
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Civic Humanism in Early Fifteenth-Century Italy and Beyond |
Kohl, Benjamin G., and Ronald G. Witt, eds. "Introduction and Bruni's Panegyric to the City of Florence." In The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978, pp. 121-175. ISBN: 9780812277524.
RR. pp. 476-9. |
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Art and Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy |
RG. pp. 90-114.
RR. pp. 140-5, 527-40.
Simons, Pat. "Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture." History Workshop 25 (1988): 38-57. |
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A Visit to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University |
Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 1-27. ISBN: 9780192821447. |
| 11 |
Burgundy and Late Medieval Politics in the North |
RR. pp. 185-202. |
| 12 |
The New Monarchies and The Invasion of Italy |
RG. pp. 110-145.
RR. pp. 279-94. |
| 13 |
Politics Reinvented |
Machiavelli. The Prince. all. |
| 14 |
Christian Humanism in the North |
RR. pp. 80-6, 401-8, 717-21.
Sowards, J. Kelley, ed. The Julius Exclusus of Erasmus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1968, pp. 45-141. |
| 15 |
Martin Luther and the Protestant Challenge |
RG. pp. 146-77.
RR. pp. 677-703. |
| 16 |
The Age of Reformations |
RG. pp. 178-202.
RR. pp. 234-41.
Hillerbrand, Hans, ed. "Radical Reform Movements." In The Reformation. 6th ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1978, pp. 214-38. |
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Sixteenth-Century Peasants I |
Davis. The Return of Martin Guerre. pp. 1-61. |
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Sixteenth-Century Peasants II |
Davis. The Return of Martin Guerre. pp. 62-125. |
| 19 |
1543: The Copernican Revolution |
RG. pp. 18-26.
RR. pp. 584-611. |
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1543: The Vesalian Revolution |
RR. pp. 552-73. |
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Individual Consultations with Instructor |
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| 22 |
Review |
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| 23 |
Portuguese Expansion |
RG. pp. 32-38. |
| 24 |
Spanish Exploration |
RG. pp. 38-44.
RR. pp. 146-57. |
| 25 |
Spanish Conquest |
Burkholder, Mark A., and Lyman L. Johnson. Colonial Latin America. 4th ed., New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 42-59. ISBN: 9780195137026.
Schwartz, Stuart B., ed. "The Siege and Fall of Tenochtitlan." In Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999, pp. 182-213. ISBN: 9780312154080. |
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Conclusion: The Future of the Renaissance |
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