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Jan. 15, 17 |
The Beginnings of Civilization |
Hunt, ch. 1 | Kishlansky:
"How to read a document" (xiii-xxi) |
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| 2 |
Jan. 22, 24 |
The Ancient Near East |
Hunt, ch. 2 | Kishlansky: Code
of Hammurabi (22-25); Book of the Dead
(25-28); Homer, Iliad (38-41) |
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| 3 |
Jan. 29, 31 |
Classical Greece |
Hunt, ch. 3; ch. 4: 119-33 |
Kishlansky: Sappho of Lesbos, Poems
(41-43); Herodotus, History (43-46);
Plato, Republic (56-65) |
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| 4 |
Feb. 5, 7 |
The Hellenistic World & the
Rise of Rome |
Hunt, ch. 4: 133-54; ch. 5:
157-81 | Kishlansky: Aristotle, Politics
(65-68); Cicero, Trial of Aulus Cluentius
Habitus (70-74); Virgil, Aeneid
(74-77) |
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Thu.,
Feb. 14: |
Book Review #1
due |
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| 5 |
Feb. 12, 14 |
The Roman Empire |
Hunt, ch. 5: 182-94; ch. 6:
197-225 | Kishlansky: Plutarch, Life of Cato
the Elder (81-85); Suetonius, Life of
Augustus (85-89); The Sermon on the Mount
(89-92) |
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| 6 |
Feb. 19, 21 |
Late Antiquity |
Hunt, ch. 6: 225-230; ch. 7 |
Kishlansky: Tacitus, Germania (98-101);
Augustine, City of God (106-10);
Benedict of Nursia, Rule of Saint Benedict
(110-14) |
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Thu., Feb. 28: |
Mid-Term Examination |
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| 7 |
Feb. 26, 28 |
Rome’s Successors |
Hunt, ch. 8 |
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[Mar. 4-10: |
Mid-Semester Break] |
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| 8 |
Mar. 12, 14 |
The "Dark" Ages |
Hunt, ch. 9 | Kishlansky: Burgundian
Code (114-9); Einhard, Life of Charlemagne
(127-30); The Koran (140-44) |
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| 9 |
Mar. 19, 21 |
Renewal and Reform |
Hunt, ch. 10; ch. 11: 387-404 |
Kishlansky: Feudal Documents (154-58);
Bernard of Angers, Miracles of St. Foy
(158-63); The Song of Roland (163-67) |
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| 10 |
Mar. 26, 28 |
The High Middle Ages |
Hunt, ch. 11: 404-417; ch. 12 |
Kishlansky: Ibn Al-Qalanisi, Damascus
Chronicle (149-51); Magna Carta
(167-70); Francis of Assisi, Admonitions
(170-75) |
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| 11 |
Apr. 2, 4 |
The Waning of the Middle Ages |
Hunt, ch. 13 | Kishlansky: Dante,
Divine Comedy (180-84); Witchcraft
Documents (204-8); Black Death handout |
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Thu., Apr. 11: |
Book Review #2 due |
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| 12 |
Apr. 9, 11 |
The Renaissance |
Hunt, ch. 14: 489-514 |
Kishlansky: Leon Battista Alberti, On the
Family (215-20); Niccolò Machiavelli, The
Prince (225-28); Erasmus, In Praise of
Folly (229-32) |
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| 13 |
Apr. 16, 18 |
Reformation, Counter-Reformation,
& Catholic Reform |
Hunt, ch. 15 | Kishlansky: Martin
Luther, Freedom of a Christian and Of Marriage
and Celibacy (258-64); Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual
Exercises (272-76); Twelve Articles of
the Peasants of Swabia (285-88) |
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| 14 |
Apr. 23, 25 |
The Early Modern World |
Hunt, ch. 14: 514-523 |
Kishlansky: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Apologetic
History of the Indies (249-53); Bernal Díaz,
True History of the Conquest of New Spain
(253-56); Hans von Grimmelhausen, Simplicissimus
(317-21) |
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Thu., May. 2 |
FINAL EXAMINATION |
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM |
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