Home | Worlds of the Renaissance Projects Syllabus: National Summer Institute Worlds of the Renaissance Columbia University, New York City July 2 - 28, 2000
Sun, July 2: Arrival by 5PM, at Columbia University, East Campus Reception 5-6 PM, Lounge Area, East Campus Welcoming dinner 7 PM Unit 1 (July 3-5) The City, Classes, & Gender in Renaissance Society (Margaret L. King) Mon, July 3: The City Morning Session 1: Brucker, 1-50 Morning Session 2: Bartlett, 35-53; Reader: Martines Morning Session 3: Reader: Bruni, "Panegyric" Afternoon Session: 2-3 PM: Getting Acquainted Tu, July 4: Rich & Poor Morning Session 1: Bartlett, 60-67, 373-78 Morning Session 2: Brucker, 51-127 Morning Session 3: Reader: Chambers & Pullan Wed, July 5: Women's Roles Morning Session 1: Bartlett, 140-85, 195-208, 289-91 Morning Session 2: Reader: Petrarch [Griselda]; Klapisch-Zuber; Herlihy Morning Session 3: Fonte, 43-117 Unit 2 (July 6-7) Italian Literature: Dante & Petrarch (Robert Proctor) Th, July 6: Dante Morning Session 1: Reader: Dante, Inferno, Cantos 1-5; Purgatorio, Cantos 1, 2, 14, 15 Morning Session 2: Cont'd Morning Session 3: Cont'd Fri, July 7: Petrarch; Proctor Morning Session 1: Petrarch, The Canzoniere, Introduction and poems 1-10, 23, 24, 34, 35, 126-29, 297, 323, 327, 360, 361, 363, 366; Reader: Petrarch's Letter to Posterity Morning Session 2: Proctor, Defining the Humanities (entire) Morning Session 3: Cont'd Unit 3 (July 10-11) Humanism (Albert Rabil, Jr.) Mon, July 10: Italian Humanism Morning Session 1: The Humanist Program (Valla, Donation of Constantine [entire]); Reader: Vergerio, Education of Boys Morning Session 2: Civic Humanism (Machiavelli, The Prince [entire]) Morning Session 3: Women & Humanism: King & Rabil, Her Immaculate Hand, 57-69, 111-21, 74-86; Reader: Bruni) Afternoon Session: Group meetings with master teacher Tu, July 11: Northern Humanism Morning Session 1: Refashioning Christian Society (Erasmus, Praise of Folly [entire]) Morning Session 2: Refashioning the Social Structure (More, Utopia [entire]) Morning Session 3: Refashioning the Image of Women (Anna Maria van Schurman, Whether a Christian Woman Should be Educated and Other Writings from her Intellectual Circle, 1-94; Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women, day 1) Afternoon Visit: Morgan Library (2 PM): Historic tour & lecture by Wm Voelkle Unit 4 (July 12-13) French Literature (Ann Rosalind Jones) Wed, July 12: Rabelais: Fictions of Education, Colonialism, Male Identity Morning Session 1: Bk 1, Pantagruel, entire; Bk 2, Gargantua, entire; Reader: Auerbach, Bakhtin, Freccero Morning Session 2: Cont'd Morning Session 3: Cont'd Th, July 13: Marguerite de Navarre: Fictions of Class, Gender, & Authority Morning Session 1: Heptaméron, Editor's Introduction and Stories 1-25; Reader: Cholakian Morning Session 2: Cont'd Morning Session 3: Cont'd Afternoon Session: Group meetings with master teacher Unit 5 (July 14, 17) Philosophy (Michael Allen) Fri, July 14: Renaissance Philosophy: Cosmology Morning Session 1: Introduction to Renaissance Philosophy (Reader: Proem: Literature & Philosophy; Donne & the extracts from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Troilus, and Tempest) Morning Session 2: Poetic Theogonies & Creationism of Hesiod (Reader: Hesiod & Virgil) Morning Session 3: Platonic Myths: Timaeus (cosmology), Statesman (time & the theory of cycles), Republic (Myth of Er, reincarnation & personal destiny), Theaetetus (Reader: Timaeus, Statesman, Republic X, Theaetetus) Mon, July 17: Ficino & Pico, Copernicus & Luther Morning Session 1: Ficino's Theory of the Soul: Its Nature & Place in the Cosmos (Reader: Ficino) Morning Session 2: Pico's Philosophy of man as the fourth world and his Christology (Reader: Pico) Morning Session 3: The Copernican Revolution, Bruno's Theory of Infinite Worlds, & the Reformation Debate on Freedom of the Will (Reader: Copernicus & Bruno; Freewill controversy) Unit 6 (July 18-20) Renaissance Art: The Ancient World and the Universal Language (Ingrid Rowland) Tu, July 18: The Ancient World & the Development of the Commune Morning Session 1: Reader: Q. Skinner; Study: Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good & Bad Government Morning Session 2: Baxandall, Giotto & the Orators; Study: Giotto, Life of St. Francis Morning Session 3: Reader: L. Martines; Study: Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi Afternoon Visit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Group 1 (2:30 PM); others to Cloisters Wed, July 19: Formulating the Universal Language Morning Session 1: Reader: Pico & Bembo on Imitation; Study: Botticelli, Primavera, Mars & Venus, Birth of Venus, Pallas & the Centaur; Gozzoli, Adoration of the Magi Morning Session 2: Reader: Rowland; Study: Raphael, School of Athens Morning Session 3: Study: Hartmann Schedel, Chronicon; Albrecht Dürer, Melancolia Afternoon Visit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Group 2 (2:30 PM); others to Cloisters Th, July 20: Codifying the Universal Language Morning Session 1: Reader: Vitruvius; Study: Pantheon Morning Session 2: Reader: Smith, chs. 2 & 5; Study: Brunelleschi, San Lorenzo Morning Session 3: Reader: Raphael, Castiglione, Colocci, Serlio; Study: St. Peter's Afternoon Visit: The Frick Collection (2:30 PM) Unit 7 (July 21, 24) Music (Craig Monson) Fri, July 21: Music in Church & Court Morning Session 1: Introduction (Reader: Fenlon) Morning Session 2: New Ways of Wedding Words & Notes 1 Morning Session 3: New Ways of Wedding Words & Notes 2 Mon, July 24: Music's Many Uses, Many Messages Morning Session 1: Sacred Sirens: Music Within Convent Walls (Reader: Monson, "Disembodied Vocies") Morning Session 2: Music & Reformations Morning Session 3: Perfect Harmony: Courtly Song & Dance (Reader: Monson, "Elizabethan London") Afternoon Session: Group meetings with master teacher Unit 8 (July 25-26) English Drama (Mary Beth Rose) Tu, July 25: Marriage & Sexuality in Renaissance England Morning Session 1: The New Historicism & Feminism in Renaissance Studies (Reader, Howard) Morning Session 2: Marriage & Sexuality in Renaissance England (Reader, Elizabethan Writers on Marriage & Sexuality) Morning Session 3: Cont'd Afternoon Session: Group meetings with master teacher Wed, July 26: Marriage & Sexuality in Othello Morning Session 1: Marriage & Sexuality in Othello (Read the play, Ridley edition) Morning Session 2: Cont'd Morning Session 3: Cont'd Afternoon Session: Discussion of Projects Unit 9 (July 27-28) The Renaissance & the New World (Marvin Lunenfeld) Th, July 27: An Era of Reconnaissance Remakes the Planet Morning Session 1: Encompassing the World: Lunenfeld, 1492: Discovery, Invasion, Encounter, Preface, Essay, articles 2-10 Morning Session 2: The Protagonist in History: Ibid, articles 11-19 Morning Session 3: Might Makes Rights: Ibid., articles 20-26 Fri, July 28: Unfamiliar Worlds Through a Renaissance Glass Morning Session 1: Myths and Legends: Ibid., articles 27-37 Morning Session 2: Distorting Mirrors: Ibid., articles 38-53 Morning Session 3: Images of the Encounter: Ibid., Picture portfolios A (115-25) & B (245-54) Farewell: Lunch or Dinner & Presentations