Humanities 3: Renaissance, the Reformation, and Early Modern Europe
fall 2023
Required Texts
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, trans Bandelier (Penguin)
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans Bondanella (Oxford)
Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection, trans Screech (Penguin)
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Pelican)
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Selected Works, trans Grossman (Norton)
John Milton, Paradise Lost (Oxford)
Class Schedule
9/29 Introduction
10/2 Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, 3-108
10/4 Cabeza de Vaca continued
10/6 Cabeza de Vaca continued
10/9 Cabeza de Vaca continued
10/11 Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, p3-105
10/13 Machiavelli continued
10/16 Machiavelli continued
10/18 The Reformation (no reading)
10/20 Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: “To the Reader” & “On Solitude” (I.39)
10/23 Montaigne, *“On Schoolmasters’ Learning” (I.25)
10/25 Montaigne, *“On Experience” & “On the Cannibals” (I.31)
10/27 Montaigne, “On Repenting” (III.2)
10/30 Montaigne, “On Cruelty” (II.11)
11/1 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
11/3 Shakespeare continued
11/6 Shakespeare continued
11/8 Shakespeare continued
11/9 Thursday: Roosevelt Montás Event
11/10 No class, Veterans Day
11/13 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (selections)
11/15 Sor Juana continued
11/17 Sor Juana continued
11/20 Sor Juana continued
11/22 Tyranny & Democracy (no reading)
11/24 No class, Thanksgiving Holiday
11/27 John Milton, Paradise Lost (reading assignment)
11/29 Milton continued
12/1 Milton continued
12/4 Milton continued
12/6 Milton continued
12/8 Milton continued