Humanities 302
Section 01 [H]
Fall 2015
SLN 02789
MWF 1:10 - 2:00 pm.
Murrow 242
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
August 24 -- Medieval-ism: why? Introduction and Disorientation.
August 26 -- The Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon Culture and Literature.
August 28 -- Anglo-Saxon Literature; Medieval Architecture & Sacred Space.August 31 -- Medieval Music: Chant, Polyphony, Motets.
September 2 -- Medieval Music: Secular Music and Lyrics.
September 4 -- Medieval Art: Hildegard of Bingen.[September 7 -- Labor Day Holiday.]
September 9 -- Medieval Romance: Culhwch and Olwen.
September 11 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos I-II.September 14 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos III-IV.
September 16 -- Andreas Capellanus and Fin Amor.
September 18 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos IV-V.September 21 -- Patristic Exegesis; The Unicorn Tapestries.
September 23 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos VI-VIII.
September 25 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos IX-XIII.September 28 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XIV-XVII.
September 30 -- Cancellation.
October 2 -- Medieval Domestic Arts: Le Menagier de Paris.October 5 -- Review & Writing Essays.
October 7 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.
October 9 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XVIII-XX.October 12 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXI-XXV; Herpetophobia and Dinosaur Films.
October 14 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXVI-XXX. Alchemy.
October 16 -- Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXXI-XXXIV.October 19 -- Dante, Purgatorio and Paradiso excerpts.
October 21 -- The Renaissance: Petrarch and Sonnets.
October 23 -- Renaissance Art: Le Concert, Da Vinci.October 26 -- Michelangelo; Renaissance Music.
October 28 -- Shake-speare.
October 30 -- Renaissance Music; "Thule, The Period of Cosmography."November 2 -- Shake-speare's Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.
November 4 -- Machiavelli & Castiglione; Perspective Art.
November 6 -- Oxford.November 9 -- The Merchant of Venice, Act I.
[November 11 -- Holiday.]
November 13 -- The Merchant of Venice, Acts II & III.November 16 -- The Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
November 18 -- The Merchant of Venice, Act V.
November 20 -- The Art of Railing; Implications.[November 23 - 28 -- Thanksgiving Holiday.]
November 30 -- Last Works & Review.
December 2 -- Last Exam & Essay.
December 4 -- Supplemental Perspectives.December 7 -- Post-Renaissance Considerations.
December 9 -- Last Words.
December 11 -- The rest is silence.