Description

Requirements

MLKHome

 

History 66: Machiavelli, Erasmus, and More

Schedule of Classes

Sessions Dates

Topic and Reading

1 8/30 Introduction: the High Renaissance generation
2-9 9/2, 9/9, 9/13, 9/20, 9/23, 9/27, 9/30, 10/4 Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince (Penguin) -- purchase in bookstore or online

alternate text at http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm

Discourses, selections - at http://www.constitution.org/mac/disclivy_.htm [DL]

Castruccio Castracane - at http://www.online-literature.com/machiavelli/1068/  [DL]

10-19 10/7, 10/14, 10/18, 10/21, 10/25, 10/28, 11/1, 11/4, 11/8, 11/11 Desiderius Erasmus:

Compendium vitae (Brief Outline of His Life)  -- in Blackboard, Course Documents (10/7)

Praise of Folly (Penguin) - purchase in bookstore or online -- pp. 3-19; 19-49; 49-75; 75-112; 112-134 (10/14, 10/18, 10/21, 10/25, 10/28)

Colloquies, selections - the Shipwreck and The Abbot and the Learned Woman  (11/1, 11/4)

Education of a Christian Prince - at http://www.stoics.com/erasmus_s_education_of_a_chris.html  [DL]  (11/8, 11/11)

 

19-26 11/15, 11/16,  11/18, 11/22, 11/29, 12/2, 12/6 Thomas More (Saint):  

Look at: http://www.apostles.com/thomasmore.html

              http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/default.htm

Utopia (Penguin) - purchase in bookstore or online  (11/15, 11/16, 11/18, 11/22, 11/29, 12/2, 12/6)

alternate text online at http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/utopia.htm or http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html

Tommaso Campanella: City of the Sun - at http://www.levity.com/alchemy/citysun.html or http://www.gutenberg.net/etext01/tcots10.txt [DL]  (12/6, 12/9)

Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis - at http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/bacon/atlantis.html  [DL] (12/9)

27-28 12/9, 12/13 Student presentations