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Free Hum210/Hum211/Hum212 Syllabus

Reed College Hum210/Hum211/Hum212 Curriculum at Zero Cost

Free version of Reed College's Hum210 ("Hum211"/"Hum212") course syllabus.

Hum211 -

Author Book Archive Links
Ibn Tufayl Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale v1
Dante Divine Comedy: Inferno v1 & v2 & v3
Erwin Panofsky "Renaissance and Renascences" None
Aquinas Question 1, Question 2, Question 4, Question 7, Question 8, Question 11, Question 115, Flattery, Question 182, The Active Life in Comparison With the Contemplative Life in Summa Theologiae Link
Averroës Faith and Reason in Islam: Averroes' Exposition of Religious Arguments None
David B. Burrell "Aquinas and Islamic and Jewish Thinkers" in The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, ed. Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump v1 & v2
E. Cassirer Renaissance Philosophy of Man v1
Rice/Grafton The Foundations of Early Modern Europe None
Michael Baxandall Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy v1 & v2
Randolph Starn “Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince,” in The New Cultural History, ed. Lynn Hunt v1
Randolph Starn and Loren Partridge Arts of Power None
Creighton Gilbert Italian Art 1400-1500 None
Alberti “On Painting” None
Dominique Raynaud “Why Did Geometrical Optics Not Lead to Perspective in Medieval Islam? Rationality and Good Reason in the Anthropology of Mathematics,” in Raymond Boudon: A Life in Sociology, ed. Mohamed Cherkaoui and Peter Hamilton Link
Castiglione Book of the Courtier v1
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince v1 & v2 & v3
Niccolo Machiavelli The Discourses v1 & v2 & v3 & v4
Desiderius Erasmus Praise of Folly (and "Letter to Dorp") v1 & v2 & v3
John Bossy Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 v1 & v2
Thomas More Utopia v1 & v2 & v3 & v4
Duarte Pacheco Pareira Esmeraldo de situ orbis v1
Columbus "Letter from Columbus to Luis de Santangel," American Journeys Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Library and Archives, pp. 261-272. Link
Lia Markey “Stradano’s Allegorical Invention of the Americas in Late Sixteenth-Century Florence,” Renaissance Quarterly 65, no. 2 (Summer 2012) Link
Surekha Davies Renaissance Ethnography & the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, & Monsters None
Bartolomé Las Casas "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" v1 & audiobook
"The New World" (pp. 521-544) Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West v1 & v2
Bernal Diaz The Conquest of New Spain v1 & openlibrary
Hernan Cortes "Letters from Mexico" v1
Lockhart, Ed. We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico None
Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel v1 & v2
Mikhail Bakhtin Rabelais and His World v1
M. Luther "The Freedom of a Christian" in Three Treatises v1
Luther and Erasmus Free Will and Salvation v1
Erasmus "Hyperaspistes" in Controversies None
S. Lotzer "Twelve Articles of the Peasantry" in The German Peasant War of 1525 None
Luther "Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants" in Luther’s Works, vol 46 None
Natalie Davis Society and Culture in Early Modern France None
Jean Calvin "Of Eternal Election," "On Resistance and Magistracy" in Institutes of the Christian Religion vol1 & vol2
Marguerite de Navarre The Heptameron v1
John Sleidan The General History of the Reformation None
Carlo Ginzburg The Cheese and the Worms v1 & v2
Michel de Montaigne Essays v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5 & v6

Hum212

Author Book Archive Links
Shakespeare The Tempest
Stephen Greenblatt "Learning to Curse" in Learning to Curse v1
Vasari "Life of Prosperzia di Rossi," in Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, trans. Gaston du C. de Vere v1
Linda Nochlin “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Link & Link2
Mary D. Garrard “Artemisia and Susanna" in Feminism And Art History: Questioning The Litany ed. Norma Broude v1
Elizabeth Cropper “Life on the Edge: Artemisia Gentileschi, Famous Woman Painter” in Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi Link1 & Link2
Fredrika H. Jacobs “Woman’s Capacity to Create: The Unusual Case of Sofonisba Anguissola” Sci-Hub
Selected Canons The Council of Trent The Thirteenth and the Twenty-Second Sessions Link
Henry VIII Second Injunctions (1538), articles 1-4, 6-7, 10, 13, 16-17 (pp. 34-43) v1
Edward VI Lincoln injunctions (1548), articles 25-26, 29 (pp. 166-170) v1
H. K. Andrews “Word Setting” in The Technique of Byrd's Vocal Polyphony None
Selections from St. Ignatius of Loyola Spiritual Exercises v1 & v2 & v3 & v4
Teresa of Avila The life of Saint Teresa of Avila by herself v1 & v2
Howard Hibbard Bernini v1 & v2 & v3
Robert Harbison Reflections on the Baroque None
Andrea Bolland “Desiderio and Diletto: Vision, Touch, and the Poetics of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne” Link
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote v1 & v2 & v3
William Shakespeare Othello v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5 & v6
Holger Schott Syme “The Theater of Shakespeare’s Time” in The Norton Shakespeare, ed. Greenblatt None
Galileo The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo v1 & v2 & v3
Francis Bacon "The Great Instauration" (from Edwin A. Burtt, ed. The English Philosophers) v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5 & v6
Bacon Interpretation of Nature (Novum Organum) v1 & v2 & v3 & v4
Peter Dear Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 None
Descartes Discourse on Method & Meditations on First Philosophy v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5
Pascal Pensées v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5 & v6
Dunn The Age of Religious Wars v1
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvray The Age of Magnificence: The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon v1
Bossuet, Jacques- Benigne Politics Drawn from the Holy Scriptures [Link](http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/books/Bossuet--Politics.pdf
Jeffrey S. Ravel The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680–1791 None
Giora Steinberg “The Duality of Service: Between Honour & Humiliation, between Primary & Secondary Functions” in Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV None
Peter Burke The Fabrication of Louis XIV None
Racine Phaedra v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5 & v6 & v7 & v8 & v9 & v10
Moliere Tartuffe v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5 & v6 & v7
Molière The Would-Be Gentleman v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5
Mustafa Ali Counsel for Sultans of 1581, Preface by Andreas Tietze None
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1, Letter I v1
Robert Dankoff, ed. An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi None
Gulru Necipoglu "Suleyman the Magnificent & the Representation of Power in the Context of Ottoman-Habsburg-Papal Rivalry" Link
Molly Greene "The Ottoman Experience." Sci-Hub
Madame de Lafayette The Princess of Cleves v1 & v2 & v3
Christine Adams "'Belle comme le jour': Beauty, Power, and the King's Mistress." Sci-Hub
ed. D. Wootton Divine Right and Democracy v1
John Milton Areopagitica v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5 & v6
Hobbes Leviathan v1
John Milton Paradise Lost v1 & v2
John Locke Second Treatise on Civil Government v1 & v2 & v3 & v4 & v5 & v6 & v7 & v8
John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding v1 & v2 & v3
John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration v1 & v2 & v3 & v4
Montesquieu Persian Letters v1 & v2
Voltaire Candide [v1](https://archive.org/details/candideoroptimis00volt & v2

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