Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction  
2 The Discarded Image  
3 Italian Humanism Before 1500  
4

Before and After Gutenberg

Rare Books In-class Visit

Stephen Skuce, Program Manager for Rare Books, MIT Libraries

  
5

Making Books

Screening

Avi Michael. "Chancery Papermaking." May 28, 2013. YouTube.

"The Making of a Renaissance Book" dvd. 1969. Rare Book School.

 First 1250–word paper due
6 Catholic Renewal  
7 In-Class Writing Workshop  
8 Protestant Revolution  
9 The Radical Reformation First 1250–word paper rewrite due
10

Religion and Print

Rare Books In-class Visit

Stephen Skuce, Program Manager for Rare Books, MIT Libraries

  
11 Menocchio's Reading Strategies  
12 Skepticism, The Occult, and Science in the Late Sixteenth Century  
13 The Cartesian Method  
14 Overview of the English Civil War and Interregnum, 1640–1660  
15 The Varieties of Religion in Seventeenth-Century England  
16 Seventeenth-Century English Natural Philosophy  
17 Print Culture and Millenarianism in Seventeenth-Century England Prospectus for 2500–word paper due
18 Newton and Newtonianism 2500–word paper due
19 Debate I  
20 Debate II  
21 The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert: Content  
22 The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert: Diffusion and Debate  
23 Natural Philosophy and the French Revolution: The Case of the Meter  
24 Conclusion Final 1250–word paper due