Humanities 302
Medieval & Renaissance: Arts and Humanities
Section 01
Fall 2003
SLN 38976
MWF 2:10-3:00
Bryan 406
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: TTh 9:00-11:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
Medieval & Renaissance
Syllabus
August 25 — Medieval-ism: why? Introduction and Disorientation.
August 27 — The Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon Culture and Literature.
August 29 — Anglo-Saxon Poetry; Beowulf.September 1 — Labor Day Holiday.
September 3 — Beowulf. Medieval Architecture: Sacred Space.
September 5 — Monasticism; Medieval Philosophy.September 8 — Medieval Music: Origins, Chant, Early Polyphony.
September 10 — Medieval Music: Polyphony, Motets, Ars Nova; Medievalism in Music.
September 12 — Medieval Art: Introduction.September 15 — Medieval Art: Hildegard of Bingen.
September 17 — Medieval Art: Hildegard of Bingen.
September 19 — Medieval Romance: “Culhwch and Olwen.”September 22 — Andreas Capellanus and Fin Amor.
September 24 — Medieval Lyrics and Secular Music: Courtly Love.
September 26 — Medieval Lyrics and Secular Music: Courtly Love and Other.September 29 — The Unicorn Tapestries.
October 1 — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
October 3 — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.October 6 — Exam #1.
October 8 — Conference.
October 10 — Conference.October 13 — Dante, Inferno, Canto I.
October 15 — Project #1 Due. Dante, Inferno, Cantos II-IV.
October 17 — Le Menagier de Paris; Medieval Food.October 20 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos V-X.
October 22 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XI-XX.
October 24 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXI-XXV; Herpephobia.October 27 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XVI-XXIX.
October 29 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXX-XIV.
October 31 — Dante, Purgatorio and Paradiso excerpts.November 3 — The Late Middle Ages: Arthurian Romance.
November 5 — The Renaissance: Petrarch & Sonnets.
November 7 — Workshop.November 10 — Shake-speare’s Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.
November 12 — Renaissance Tapestry: Le Concert.
November 14 — Renaissance Art: Da Vinci.November 17 — Renaissance Art: Michelangelo.
November 19 — Boccaccio.
November 21 — Wild Card.November 24 – 28 — THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 1 — Shake-speare.
December 3 — Renaissance Music; Project #2 Due.
December 5 — Marguerite de Navarre.December 8 — Machiavelli, Castiglione.
December 10 — Last Words and Review.
December 12 — Final MedRenarama 2003.Whenever — Exam #2
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Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
delahoyd@wsu.edu
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