Humanities 302
Section 01 [H]
Fall 2020
SLN 05095
MWF Zoom 1:10 – 2:00 pm.
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: MWF 10:00-11:00, and by appointment.
Office Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
August 24 — Medieval-ism: why? Introduction and Disorientation.
August 26 — The Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon Culture and Literature.
August 28 — Anglo-Saxon Literature; Medieval Architecture & Sacred Space.
August 31 — Medieval Music: Chant, Polyphony, Motets.
September 2 — Medieval Music: Secular Music and Lyrics.
September 4 — Medieval Art: Hildegard of Bingen.
[September 7 — Labor Day Holiday.]
September 9 — Medieval Romance: Culhwch and Olwen.
[September 11 — Classes Cancelled.]
September 14 — Patristic Exegesis; The Unicorn Tapestries.
September 16 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos I-II.
September 18 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos III-V.
September 21 — Andreas Capellanus and Fin Amor.
September 23 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos VI-X.
September 25 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XI-XV.
September 28 — Medieval Domestic Arts: Le Menagier de Paris.
September 30 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XV-XX.
October 2 — Boccaccio, Decameron; Review.
October 5 — Writing Essays.
October 7 — Midterm Exam & Essay.
October 9 — No Class.
October 12 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXI-XXV; Herpetophobia and Dinosaur Films.
October 14 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXVI-XXX. Alchemy.
October 16 — Dante, Inferno, Cantos XXXI-XXXIV.
October 19 — Dante, Purgatorio and Paradiso excerpts.
October 21 — The Renaissance: Petrarch and Sonnets.
October 23 — Renaissance Art: Le Concert, Da Vinci.
October 26 — Michelangelo; Renaissance Music.
October 28 — Shake-speare.
October 30 — Renaissance Music; “Thule, The Period of Cosmography.”
November 2 — Shake-speare’s Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.
November 4 — Machiavelli & Castiglione; Perspective Art.
November 6 — Archival Research: Oxford.
November 9 — The Merchant of Venice, Act I.
[November 11 — Holiday.]
November 13 — The Merchant of Venice, Acts II.
November 16 — The Merchant of Venice, Act III.
November 18 — The Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
November 20 — The Art of Railing; other new phenomena.
[November 23 – 28 — Thanksgiving Holiday.]
November 30 — The Merchant of Venice, Act V.
December 2 — Review.
December 4 — Final Exam & Essay.
December 7 — Post-Renaissance Considerations.
December 9 — Last Words.
December 11 — The rest is silence.