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Readings are also available by class session.

Rice, Eugene, and Anthony Grafton. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1994. ISBN: 9780393963045. (RG)

Ross, James, and Mary McLaughlin. The Portable Renaissance Reader. New York, NY: Penguin, 1977. ISBN: 9780140150612. (RR)

Leroy-Ladurie, Emmanuel. Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error. New York, NY: Vintage, 1979. ISBN: 9780394729640.

Petrarch, Francesco. The Secret. Edited by Carol Quillen. Boston, MA: Bedford/Saint Martin's, 2003. ISBN: 9780312154387.

Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. Oxford, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780192804266.
A version of this text is available through Project Gutenberg.

Davis, N. Z. The Return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780674766907.

Readings

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction: The History of Renaissance History
2	Geography, Demography, Global Trade, 1300-1600	Leroy-Ladurie. Montaillou. pp. 3-135.
3	The World of the Peasantry ca. 1300	Leroy-Ladurie. Montaillou. pp. 139-230.
4	The Black Death	Tuchman, Barbara. "'This is the end of the world': The Black Death." In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1987. pp. 92-125. Boccaccio. Introduction to The Decameron. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2002. pp. 49-68.
5	The Discarded Image	RR. pp. 580-3.
6	The Beginnings of Humanism in Fourteenth-Century Italy	RG. pp. 1-10, 77-90. RR. pp. 120-30. Petrarch. The Secret. pp. 1-70, 149-58.
7	Petrarch	Petrarch. The Secret. pp. 70-148.
8	Civic Humanism in Early Fifteenth-Century Italy and Beyond	Kohl, Benjamin G., and Ronald G. Witt, eds. "Introduction and Bruni's Panegyric to the City of Florence." In The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978, pp. 121-175. ISBN: 9780812277524. RR. pp. 476-9.
9	Art and Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy	RG. pp. 90-114. RR. pp. 140-5, 527-40. Simons, Pat. "Women in Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture." History Workshop 25 (1988): 38-57.
10	A Visit to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University	Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 1-27. ISBN: 9780192821447.
11	Burgundy and Late Medieval Politics in the North	RR. pp. 185-202.
12	The New Monarchies and The Invasion of Italy	RG. pp. 110-145. RR. pp. 279-94.
13	Politics Reinvented	Machiavelli. The Prince. all.
14	Christian Humanism in the North	RR. pp. 80-6, 401-8, 717-21. Sowards, J. Kelley, ed. The Julius Exclusus of Erasmus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1968, pp. 45-141.
15	Martin Luther and the Protestant Challenge	RG. pp. 146-77. RR. pp. 677-703.
16	The Age of Reformations	RG. pp. 178-202. RR. pp. 234-41. Hillerbrand, Hans, ed. "Radical Reform Movements." In The Reformation. 6th ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1978, pp. 214-38.
17	Sixteenth-Century Peasants I	Davis. The Return of Martin Guerre. pp. 1-61.
18	Sixteenth-Century Peasants II	Davis. The Return of Martin Guerre. pp. 62-125.
19	1543: The Copernican Revolution	RG. pp. 18-26. RR. pp. 584-611.
20	1543: The Vesalian Revolution	RR. pp. 552-73.
21	Individual Consultations with Instructor
22	Review
23	Portuguese Expansion	RG. pp. 32-38.
24	Spanish Exploration	RG. pp. 38-44. RR. pp. 146-57.
25	Spanish Conquest	Burkholder, Mark A., and Lyman L. Johnson. Colonial Latin America. 4th ed., New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 42-59. ISBN: 9780195137026. Schwartz, Stuart B., ed. "The Siege and Fall of Tenochtitlan." In Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999, pp. 182-213. ISBN: 9780312154080.
26	Conclusion: The Future of the Renaissance