Humanities 302
Medieval & Renaissance: Arts and Humanities

Section 01
Fall 2011
Pullman SLN 69096
Vancouver SLN 70755
MWF 11:10 - 12:00
[WHETS]
Pullman: Murrow
Vancouver: ?
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 -- Washington State University
Hours: MWF 8:00-9:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


Medieval & Renaissance
Syllabus


August 22 -- Medieval-ism: why? Introduction and Disorientation.
August 24 -- The Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon Culture and Literature.
August 26 -- Anglo-Saxon Literature.

August 30 -- Medieval Architecture: Sacred Space; Medieval Music Origins.
September 1 -- Medieval Music: Chant, Early Polyphony.
September 3 -- Medieval Music: Polyphony, Motets, Ars Nova.

[September 5 -- Holy Day.]
September 7 -- Medieval Art: Introduction.
September 9 -- Hildegard of Bingen.

September 12 -- Andreas Capellanus and Fin Amor.
September 14 -- Medieval Lyrics and Secular Music.
September 16 -- Medieval Lyrics and Secular Music.

September 19 -- Patristic Exegesis; The Unicorn Tapestries.
September 21 -- Research and Writing.
September 23 -- Medieval Domestic Arts: Le Menagier de Paris.

September 26 -- Dante, Inferno, Canto I-III.
September 28 -- Inferno, Cantos IV-VI.
September 30 -- Inferno, Cantos VII-VIII.

October 3 -- Inferno, Cantos IX-X.
October 5 -- Exam #1.
October 7 -- Project #1 Due.

October 10 -- Inferno, Cantos XI-XIV.
October 12 -- Inferno, Cantos XV-XVII.
October 14 -- Inferno, Cantos XVIII-XX.

October 17 -- Inferno, Cantos XXI-XXIII.
October 19 -- Inferno, Cantos XXIV-XXVI; Herpephobia and Dinosaur Films.
October 21 -- Inferno, Cantos XXVII-XXX.

October 25 -- Inferno, Cantos XXXI-XXXIV.
October 27 -- Purgatorio and Paradiso excerpts.
October 29 -- The Renaissance: Petrarch and Sonnets.

October 31 -- Renaissance Art: Le Concert.
November 2 -- Renaissance Art: Da Vinci.
November 4 -- Renaissance Art: Michelangelo.

November 7 -- Renaissance Poetry.
November 9 -- Renaissance Poetry.
November 11 -- Renaissance Music; Thule.

November 14 -- Shake-speare's Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.
November 16 -- Shake-speare's Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.
November 18 -- Research and Writing.

[November 21 - 25 -- Thanksgiving Holiday.]

November 28 -- Project #2 Due.
November 30 -- More Renaissance Music.
December 2 -- Exam #2.

December 5 -- Machiavelli.
December 7 -- Castiglione.
December 9 -- Last Words.


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