Administrator | March 1, 2011
Required:
Chapter 18 (The Age of Enlightenment)
Immanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment?, 1784
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.html
The First English Coffee-Houses, c. 1670-1675
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1670coffee.html
Salon Life
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18salons.html
Montesquieu: The Persian Letters, No. 13, 1721
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/montesq-pers13.html
Voltaire: Patrie, in The Philosophical Dictionary, 1752
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1752voltaire.html
Daniel Defoe: (On) The Education Of Women, 1719
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1719defoe-women.html
Recommended:
Condorcet: The Future Progress of the Human Mind
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/condorcet-progress.html
David Hume: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hume-dignity.html
David Hume: On Miracles
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hume-miracles.html
Montesquieu: [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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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
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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 [...]
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Administrator | January 31, 2011
Required:
Chapter 13 (The Renaissance)
Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/courcon1.html
Roger Bacon: Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon1.html
Francesco Petrarch: On the Nature of Poetry
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet13.html
Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo da Vinci, 1550
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vasari1.html
The Book of The Courtier
http://web.archive.org/web/20001216150100/http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/courtier.htm
Recommended:
Medieval Students’ Songs
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/medievalstudentsongs.html
Roger Bacon: On Experimental Science, 1268
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon2.html
Francesco Petrarch: To Posterity
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch1.html
Petrarch Disclaims All Jealousy of Dante To Boccaccio
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet05.html
Lorenzo De Medici: [...]
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Administrator | January 26, 2011
Week 4
Required:
Chapter 12 (The Late Middle Ages)
Peter Abelard: Historia Calamitatum [The Story of My Misfortunes] (Excerpts)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/abelard-sel.html
Theophilus: An Essay Upon Diverse Arts, c. 1125
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/theophilus.html
Adelard of Bath: The Impact of Muslim Science, Preface to His Very Difficult Natural Questions, c. 1137
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/adelardbath1.html
Recommended:
Peter Abelard: Historia Calamitatum [The Story of My Misfortunes] (Full Text)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/abelard-histcal.html
The Rule of the Franciscan Order
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/stfran-rule.html
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Administrator | January 19, 2011
Here are this weeks readings:
Required:
Chapter 11 (The Flowering of Medieval Culture)
William of St. Thierry: A Description of Clairvaux, c. 1143
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1143clairvaux.html
Two Accounts of the Early Career of St. Bernard, c. 1150
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1150bernard-2accs.html
Innocent III: Letters on Marriage and Women
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/innIII-marriagewomen.html
Recommended:
Innocent III: Letters on Papal Policies
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/innIII-policies.html
Peter the Venerable vs. St. Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Keeping of Serfs, c. 1120
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1120Petebern.html
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Administrator | January 10, 2011
Here are the readings for week 2 (make sure to also read the handout on your Document Analysis assignment before Wednesday [we will be talking about the assignment at the beginning of Wednesday's class]):
Required:
Chapter 10 (The High Middle Ages)
Richer of Rheims: Journey to Chartres, 10th Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/richer1.html
Ralph Glaber: On the First Millenium
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/glaber-1000.html
Gregory VII: Dictatus Papae, 1090
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-dictpap.html
Recommended:
Gregory [...]
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Administrator | January 5, 2011
Here are week 1’s readings (the textbook should be in the bookstore now):
Week 1
Required:
pp. xii (first 5 paragraphs of “Preface”), xvii-1 (“Geography of Europe”), 28 (“Near Eastern Achievements”), 46 (“The Legacy of the Ancient Jews”), 50 (intro to the Greek City State), 74-75 (intro to Greek Thought and “Philosophy” [4 paragraphs]), 82-88 (from “Plato” to [...]
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