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| 1 |
Aug. 28, 30 |
The Beginnings of Civilization |
Hunt, ch. 1: 3-12, 22-33 |
Kishlansky: "How to read a document"
(xiii-xxi); Book of the Dead (25-28) |
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| 2 |
Sep. 4, 6 |
The Ancient Near East |
Hunt, ch. 1: 12-22, 33-42; ch. 2
| Kishlansky: Code of Hammurabi (22-25);
Homer, Iliad (38-41) |
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| 3 |
Sep. 11, 13 |
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 |
Sep. 18, 20 |
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 (68-72); Virgil, Aeneid (72-5) |
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Thu.,
Sep. 27: |
Book Review #1
due |
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| 5 |
Sep. 25, 27 |
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 |
Oct. 2, 4 |
Late Antiquity |
Hunt, ch. 6: 225-230; ch. 7 |
Kishlansky: Tacitus, Germania (98-101);
Benedict of Nursia, Rule of Saint Benedict
(110-4); Burgundian Code (114-9) |
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Thu., Oct. 11: |
Mid-Term Examination |
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| 7 |
Oct. 9, 11 |
Rome’s Successors |
Hunt, ch. 8 | Kishlansky: Gregory
of Tours, History of the Franks (120-3);
Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (127-30) |
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[Oct. 13-16: |
Mid-Semester Break] |
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| 8 |
Oct. 18 |
The "Dark" Ages |
Hunt, ch. 9 | Kishlansky:
Justinian, Code (132-36); The Koran
(140-44); Feudal Documents (154-58) |
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| 9 |
Oct. 23, 25 |
Renewal and Reform |
Hunt, ch. 10; ch. 11: 387-404 |
Kishlansky: Bernard of Angers, Miracles of St.
Foy (158-63); The Song of Roland
(163-67) |
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| 10 |
Oct. 30, Nov. 1 |
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 |
Nov. 6, 8 |
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., Nov. 15: |
Book Review #2 due |
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| 12 |
Nov. 13, 15 |
The Renaissance |
Hunt, ch. 14: 489-514 |
Kishlansky: Francesco Petrarca, Letters
(210-215); Leon Battista Alberti, On the
Family (215-21); Niccolò Machiavelli, The
Prince (225) |
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| 13 |
Nov. 20 |
Reformation, Counter-Reformation,
& Catholic Reform |
Hunt, ch. 15 | Kishlansky:
Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (229-33);
Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian and Of
Marriage and Celibacy (258-64); Ignatius
Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (272-76) |
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[Nov.
22-25: |
Thanksgiving
Break] |
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| 14 |
Nov. 27, 29 |
The Early Modern World |
Hunt, ch. 14, pp. 514-523 |
Kishlansky: Twelve Articles of the Peasants of
Swabia (282-85); Bartolomé de Las Casas, Apologetic
History of the Indies (249-53); Bernal Díaz,
True History of the Conquest of New Spain
(253-56) |
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Fri., Dec. 7 |
FINAL EXAMINATION |
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM |
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