History 21.1: Women in Europe: to 1800 (3746)

Spring 2007 -- TF 9:25 – 10:40 AM

Professor M. L. King

Schedule

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• Bible selections from http://bible.crosswalk.com/: Judges 4-5; 1 Samuel 1.1-2.11; Ruth 1-4; Luke 1:26-56; Mark 5:25-34; Luke 10:38-42

• Homer, Iliad, books I, VI, XIV; at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html

• Sappho, selections, at http://www.sappho.com/poetry/sappho.html
• Greek poets on women, at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/700greekwomen.html

• Juvenal, Satire 6, at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/juvenal-satvi.html
• Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women  BB

1. Luke 1:26-56; 10:38-42, at http://bible.crosswalk.com
2. Jerome, letter 22 to Eustochium, at http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-06/Npnf2-06-03.htm#P583_110510
3. Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity

1. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, 2:28-31; 4:24-28; at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html
2. Dhuoda, Handbook for William, trans. Carol Neel (Nebraska. 1991), 1-7, 95-103  BB

1. The Art of Courtly Love, excerpts in The ORB: On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies, at http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/anthology/beidler/courtly.html  BB
2. Andreas Capellanus, Rules of Love, at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/capellanus.html  BB

• Hildegard of Bingen, Selections from her Writings, trans. Columba Hart & Jane Bishop (Harper Collins 2005), 1-36 BB

• The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, trans. Betty Radice (rev. ed.; Penguin 2004), 9-17; 47-55; 63-71; 93-111. BB

• Boccaccio, On Famous Women, trans. Virginia Brown (Harvard University Press, 2001),  Dedication; Preface, selected lives  BB

• Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies, trans Earl Jeffrey Richards (Persea Press, 1994), selections BB

1. The Book of Margery Kempe, selections at http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/kempebk.htm
2. Heinrich Krämer and James Sprenger, Malleus maleficarum, 1.5, 6, 11; 2.1.6; 3.13

• Regine Pernoud, et al. Joan of Arc: Her Story. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. Trans. Jeremy duQuesnay Adams.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.  Pp. 103-37, 247-64 BB

• Francesco Barbaro, "On Wifely Duties" (book 2 of On Marriage), from Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978), pp. 189-228 BB

1. Isotta Nogarola, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, in Complete Works: Letters - Orations - Dialogue, trans. Margaret L. King and Diana Robin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 139-158  BB
2. Laura Cereta. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist, trans. Diana Robin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), 63-86  BB

1. Desiderius Erasmus, Colloquies, “The Abbot and the Learned Woman,” at http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/Erasmus0096/Colloquies/0046-01_Bk.html#hd_lf046.1.head.177
2. Juan Luis Vives, The Education of a Christian Woman, trans. Charles Fantazzi (Chicago 2000), 53-86  BB

Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron, trans. W.K. Kelly (London 1903), Introduction, novels 2, 5, 18, 32, 46, 55, at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/navarre/heptameron/heptameron.html

• Veronica Franco, from Poems and Selected Letters, trans. Ann Rosalind Jones & Margaret F. Rosenthal (Chicago 1999), 32-41, 197-211  BB

• Jeanne de Jussie, The Short Chronicle, trans. Carrie F. Claus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 128-177 BB

• Katharina Schütz Zell, Church Mother: The Writings of a Protestant Reformer in Sixteenth-Century Germany, trans. Elsie McKee (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 56-82 BB

1. Elizabeth I, selected letters, orations, and poems, at http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizabib.htm
2. John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, at http://www.swrb.ab.ca/newslett/actualNLs/firblast.htm; abridged version in BB

1. Marie de Gournay, The Equality of Men and Women, in Apology for the Woman Writing, trans. Richard Hillman and Colette Quesnel (Chicago, 2002), 73-95 BB
2.  Anna Maria van Schurman, Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated. trans. Joyce L. Irwin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 25-37 BB

1. Margaret Fell, Women's Speaking Justified, at http://www.qhpress.org/texts/fell.html
2. Margaret Cavendish, Blazing World, excerpts at  http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/blaze.htm

• Mary Astell, Some Reflections Upon Marriage , at http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/astl_mrg.html

1. Memoirs of Glückel of Hamelin, trans. Marvin Lowenthal, ed. Robert Rosen & Marylin Rosen (New York: Schocken, 1986), 1-39, 136-145 BB
2. Susannah Wesley, On the Education of My Family, in Susannah Wesley, The Complete Writings, ed. Charles Wallace, Jr. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 367-376 BB

1. Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, at http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/gouges.html
2. Condorcet, Women and Citizenship, at http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/292/

• Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, at http://www.bartleby.com/144/, chapters 1-3