Administrator | February 26, 2011
Here is a .pdf of the short preview from Wednesday of some of the issues we will encounter next week with the Scientific Revolution.
And here is the promised handout with some fundamental issues to think about when doing your reading next week and while you listen to next week’s lecture.
Have a good weekend.
Administrator | February 24, 2011
Required:
Chapter 17 (The Scientific Revolution)
Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615
(Excerpt – up to “…nor is God any less excellently revealed in Nature’s actions than in the sacred statements of the bible. But feel free to read the whole thing.)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/galileo-tuscany.html
The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1630galileo.html
Francis Bacon: from First [...]
Administrator | February 21, 2011
Required:
Chapter 16 (The Rise of Sovereignty)
Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince [Excerpts], 1513
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/prince-excerp.html
James I: True Law of Free Monarchies
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/james1-trew2.html
Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1653intrumentgovt.html
Duc de Saint-Simon: The Court of Louis XIV
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17stsimon.html
Recommended:
Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince (Full Text)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/machiavelli-prince.html
Jean Domat (1625-1696): On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1687domat.html
Revocation of the Edict of nantes, October 22, 1685
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1685revocation.html
Social Conditions in 17th Century France
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17france-soc.html
Administrator | February 14, 2011
Required:
Chapter 15 (European Expansion)
Witchcraft Documents [15th Century]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/witches1.html
Columbus’ Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.html
Amerigo Vespucci (1452-1512): Account of His First Voyage, 1497
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497vespucci-america.html
Recommended:
Tales of the Devil
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tales-devil.html
Vasco Da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.html
Ferdinand Magellan’s Voyage Round the World, 1519-1522
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1519magellan.html
Administrator | February 10, 2011
Required:
Chapter 14 (The Reformation)
Fourth Lateran Council: Canon 3 on Heresy, 1215
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lat4-c3.html
John Wyclif: On the Sacrament of Communion
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/wyclif-euch.html
Martin Luther: 95 Theses
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/luther95.txt
Martin Luther: The Freedom of a Christian (Extracts)
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REFORM/FREEDOM.HTM
Recommended:
Bernard Gui on the Albigensians
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gui-cathars.html
The Great Schism: Manifesto of the Revolting Cardinals, Aug 5, 1378
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/grtschism1.html
The Grest Schism: University of Paris and the Schism, 1393
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/grtschism2.html
Pope Gregory XI: The Condemnation of [...]
Administrator | February 4, 2011
Here is a quick study guide for the midterm.
Good luck!
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