Humanities 302
Section 01 [H]
Fall 2014
SLN 01710
MWF 1:10 - 2:00 pm.
CUE 409
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 -- Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00-10:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


Medieval/Renaissance Syllabus


August 25 -- Medieval-ism: why? Introduction and Disorientation.
August 27 -- The Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon Culture and Literature.
August 29 -- Anglo-Saxon Literature; Medieval Architecture & Sacred Space.

[September 1 -- Labor Day Holiday.]
September 3 -- Medieval Music: Chant, Polyphony, Motets.
September 5 -- Medieval Music: Secular Music and Lyrics.

September 8 -- Medieval Art: Hildegard of Bingen.
September 10 -- Medieval Romance: Culhwch and Olwen.
September 12 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos I-II.

September 15 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos III-IV.
September 17 -- Andreas Capellanus and Fin Amor.
September 19 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos V-VI.

September 22 -- Patristic Exegesis; The Unicorn Tapestries.
September 24 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos VII-VIII.
September 26 -- Medieval Domestic Arts: Le Menagier de Paris.

September 29 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos IX-X.
October 1 -- Writing Essays.
October 3 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XI-XII.

October 6 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XIII-XV.
October 8 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.
October 10 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XVI-XVIII.

October 13 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XIX-XXI.
October 15 -- Integration.
October 17 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXII-XXV.

October 20 -- Herpetophobia and Dinosaur Films.
October 22 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXVI-XXIX. Alchemy.
October 24 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXX-XXXII.

October 27 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXXIII-XXXIV.
October 29 -- Dante, Purgatorio and Paradiso excerpts.
October 31 -- The Renaissance: Petrarch and Sonnets.

November 3 -- Renaissance Art: Le Concert, Da Vinci, & Michelangelo.
November 5 -- Renaissance Music.
November 7 -- Perspective Art & Railing as a New Art Form.

November 10 -- Renaissance Music; "Thule, The Period of Cosmography."
November 12 -- Machiavelli & Castiglione.
November 14 -- School of Night Substitute Swap.

November 17 -- Shake-speare.
November 19 -- Shake-speare's Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.
November 21 -- Implications.

[November 24 - 29 -- Thanksgiving Holiday.]

December 1 -- Last Works & Review.
December 3 -- Last Exam & Essay.
December 5 -- Supplemental Perspectives.

December 8 -- Post-Renaissance Considerations.
December 10 -- Last Words.
December 12 -- The rest is silence.


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