Humanities 302
Medieval & Renaissance: Arts and Humanities

Section 01
Fall 2007
SLN 38224
TTh 1:25-2:40
Fulmer 150
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 -- Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00-10:45, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


Medieval & Renaissance
Syllabus


August 21 -- Medieval-ism: why? Introduction and Disorientation.
August 23 -- The Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon Culture and Literature.

August 28 -- Medieval Architecture: Sacred Space; Medieval Music: Origins, Chant.
August 30 -- Medieval Music: Early Polyphony, Motets, Ars Nova.

September 4 -- Medieval Art: Introduction.
September 6 -- Hildegard of Bingen.

September 11 -- Andreas Capellanus and Fin Amor.
September 13 -- Medieval Lyrics and Secular Music.

September 18 -- Meet at Library Special Collections.
September 20 -- Medieval Domestic Arts: Le Menagier de Paris.

September 25 -- Patristic Exegesis; The Unicorn Tapestries.
September 27 -- Dante, Inferno, Canto I-III.

October 2 -- Exam #1.
October 4 -- Conference.

October 9 -- Project #1 Due; Inferno, Cantos IV-X.
October 11 -- Inferno, Cantos XI-XVII.

October 16 -- Inferno, Cantos XVIII-XXI.
October 18 -- Inferno, Cantos XXII-XXV; Herpephobia and Dinosaur Films.

October 23 -- Inferno, Cantos XXVI-XXXIV; Purgatorio and Paradiso excerpts.
October 25 -- The Late Middle Ages: Arthurian Romance.

October 30 -- The Renaissance: Petrarch and Sonnets.
November 1 -- Renaissance Art.

November 6 -- Renaissance Art: Da Vinci; Michelangelo.
November 8 -- Boccaccio.

November 13 -- Renaissance Music.
November 15 -- Shake-speare's Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.

November 19 - 23 -- THANKSGIVING BREAK.

November 27 -- Le Concert; Project #2 Due.
November 29 -- More Renaissance Music.

December 4 -- Machiavelli, Castiglione; Last Words.
December 6 -- Non-Final Exam-Like Thing.


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