• Class Introduction

• The Renaissance or the Late Middle Ages

• The Church and Religion

• Waley & Danley, chs. 1-2

• The Late Medieval Economy

• Rural Life and the Great Famine

• The Black Death – Part I

• Waley & Danley, chs. 3-4

• The Black Death – Part II

• CLASS DISCUSSION: The Decameron

• An Absent and Schismatic Church

• Waley & Danley, ch. 5

• Boccaccio, The Decameron, Introduction; I: 1, 2, 3; II: 1, 3, 7, 9; III: 1, 2, 10; IV: 1, 2, 5; V: 2; VI: 7, 10; VII: 2, 7; VIII: 1; IX: 2, 3; X: 9.

• Love and Marriage

• CLASS DISCUSSION: Margery Kempe

• The Hundred Years’ War

• Waley & Danley, ch. 6-7

• Margery Kempe, Proem - ch. 15; chs. 26 - 42; chs. 51 - 55; chs. 79 - 81

• The Book Hunters

• CLASS DISCUSSION: LETTERS OF PETRARCH

• Humanism

• Petrarch: To Posterity

• Petrarch: To Socrates

• Petrarch: To Boccaccio

• Petrarch: To Cicero (I)

• Petrarch: To Cicero (II)

• Petrarch: To Homer

• Petrarch: Ascent of Mt. Ventoux

• Waley & Danley, chs. 8-9

• Waley & Danley, chs. 10-12

• Renaissance Music

• Renaissance Warfare

• Witchcraft and Inquisition

• Science and Technology

• Waley & Danley, ch. 18

• Science and Technology

• Printing

• Origins of Exploration

• Waley & Danley, ch. 16

• The New World
• CLASS DISCUSSION:LAZARILLO DE TORMES
• The Results of Contact

• Lazarillo de Tormes, pp. 3-60

• Jews in the Renaissance

• CLASS DISCUSSION: MARTIN GUERRE

• The Ottomans

• Waley & Danley, ch. 14
• Davis, Martin Guerre

• Crime and Punishment

• Origins of the Reformation

• The Protestant Reformation

RESEARCH PAPERS DUE

• Waley & Danley, chs. 13 & 15

• The Catholic Reformation

• Final Exam Review