Humanities 3: Renaissance, the Reformation, and Early Modern Europe
fall 2024
Required Texts
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Pelican)
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Selected Works, trans Grossman (Norton)
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans Bondanella (Oxford)
Michel de Montaigne, Selected Essays, trans Atkinson & Sices (Hackett)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Norton Library)
Class Schedule
9/26 Introduction
10/1 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
10/3 Shakespeare continued
10/8 Shakespeare continued
10/10 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Prelude to Narcissus”
10/15 Sor Juana, selected poetry
10/17 Sor Juana, Love Is the Greater Labyrinth
10/17 @6pm Humanities Event | Staged reading of Love Is the Greater Labyrinth (details forthcoming)
10/22 Sor Juana, “Letter from Sor Filotea” & “Response of the Poet
10/24 Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, p3-105
10/29 Machiavelli continued
10/31 Hannah Arendt, selection from On Violence
11/5 Étienne de la Boétie, “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” (in Montaigne’s Selected Essays)
11/7 Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: “To the Reader,” “On Solitude” (I.39), & “On Friendship” (I.27)
11/12 Montaigne, “On the Cannibals” (I.31) & “On Repenting” (III.2)
11/14 Montaigne, “On Repenting” (III.2)
11/19 Montaigne, “On Cruelty” (II.11)
11/22 Speech of James I & selection from Hobbes’ Leviathan
11/26 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selections)
11/28 No class, Thanksgiving Holiday
12/3 Hobbes continued
12/5 Democracy & the English Civil War (readings tbd)