Michael Delahoyde, PhD

Professor of English

Medieval & Renaissance: Arts & Humanities

Humanities 302
Medieval & Renaissance: Arts and Humanities
Section 01
Fall 2007
SLN 38224
TTh 1:25-2:40
Fulmer 150
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00-10:45, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


Medieval & Renaissance
Syllabus


August 21 — Medieval-ism: why? Introduction and Disorientation.
August 23 — The Early Middle Ages; Anglo-Saxon Culture and Literature.

August 28 — Medieval Architecture: Sacred Space; Medieval Music: Origins, Chant.
August 30 — Medieval Music: Early Polyphony, Motets, Ars Nova.

September 4 — Medieval Art: Introduction.
September 6 — Hildegard of Bingen.

September 11 — Andreas Capellanus and Fin Amor.
September 13 — Medieval Lyrics and Secular Music.

September 18 — Meet at Library Special Collections.
September 20 — Medieval Domestic Arts: Le Menagier de Paris.

September 25 — Patristic Exegesis; The Unicorn Tapestries.
September 27 — Dante, Inferno, Canto I-III.

October 2 — Exam #1.
October 4 — Conference.

October 9 — Project #1 Due; Inferno, Cantos IV-X.
October 11 — Inferno, Cantos XI-XVII.

October 16 — Inferno, Cantos XVIII-XXI.
October 18 — Inferno, Cantos XXII-XXV; Herpephobia and Dinosaur Films.

October 23 — Inferno, Cantos XXVI-XXXIV; Purgatorio and Paradiso excerpts.
October 25 — The Late Middle Ages: Arthurian Romance.

October 30 — The Renaissance: Petrarch and Sonnets.
November 1 — Renaissance Art.

November 6 — Renaissance Art: Da Vinci; Michelangelo.
November 8 — Boccaccio.

November 13 — Renaissance Music.
November 15 — Shake-speare’s Lucrece and Giulio Romano in Mantua.

November 19 – 23 — THANKSGIVING BREAK.

November 27 — Le Concert; Project #2 Due.
November 29 — More Renaissance Music.

December 4 — Machiavelli, Castiglione; Last Words.
December 6 — Non-Final Exam-Like Thing.


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