Humanities 302
Medieval & Renaissance: Arts and Humanities

Section 01
Fall 2005
SLN 38828
TTh 1:25-2:40
Avery 106
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 -- Washington State University
Hours: TTh 8:30-10:15, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


Medieval & Renaissance
Syllabus


August 23 -- Medieval-ism: why? Introduction and Disorientation.
August 25 -- The Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon Culture and Literature.

August 30 -- Warrior Societies: Beowulf.
September 1 -- Beowulf.

September 6 -- Medieval Architecture: Sacred Space; Medieval Music: Origins, Chant.
September 8 -- Medieval Music: Early Polyphony, Motets, Ars Nova; Medieval Philosophy.

September 13 -- Medieval Art: Introduction and Hildegard of Bingen.
September 15 -- Andreas Capellanus and Fin Amor.

September 20 -- Medieval Lyrics and Secular Music: Courtly Love.
September 22 -- Medieval Domestic Arts: Le Menagier de Paris.

September 27 -- The Unicorn Tapestries; Patristic Exegesis.
September 29 -- Dante, Inferno, Canto I-III.

October 4 -- Project #1 Due; Exam #1.
October 6 -- Inferno, Cantos IV-X.

October 11 -- Inferno, Cantos XI-XVII.
October 13 -- Inferno, Cantos XVIII-XXI.

October 18 -- Inferno, Cantos XXII-XXV; Herpephobia and Dinosaur Films.
October 20 -- Conference.

October 25 -- Inferno, Cantos XXVI-XXXIV; Purgatorio and Paradiso excerpts.
October 27 -- The Late Middle Ages: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

November 1 -- Arthurian Romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
November 3 -- The Renaissance: Petrarch and Sonnets.

November 8 -- Renaissance Art: Da Vinci; Michelangelo.
November 10 -- Boccaccio.

November 15 -- Shake-speare's Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.
November 17 -- Renaissance Music.

November 21 - 25 -- THANKSGIVING BREAK

November 29 -- Renaissance Tapestry: Le Concert.
December 1 -- More Renaissance Music; Project #2 Due.

December 6 -- Machiavelli, Castiglione; Last Words.
December 8 -- Final MedRenarama 2005.

Whenever -- Exam #2


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