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Did women have a Renaissance?
Week 1
Week 1
Review Syllabus
Draft class expectations document
Week Two
Week Two
What is a renaissance? Did women have one?
Read: "Did women have a renaissance?"
Mary Beard, "The Public Voice of Women"
Week Three
Week Three
Power, Politics and Poverty in the Middle Ages
Read: Claire of Assisi's Letters to Agnes of Prague (course pack)
Week Four
Week Four
Power, Politics and Poverty in the Middle Ages
Read: Christine de Pizan - Book of the City of Ladies (pp. 116-55)
Week Five
Week Five
Power, Politics and Poverty in the Middle Ages
Christine of PIzan, cont.
Week Six
Week Six
Early Renaissance Courts
Isabella D'Este Gonzaga - Patron of the Arts
Week Seven
Week Seven
Early Renaissance Courts
Isabella D'Este Gonzaga - selected letters
Week Eight
Week Eight
Renaissance Courts - Imagined Lives
Read: The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
Read: Tillie Olson, Silences
Week Nine
Week Nine
Women's Lyric Voices
Read: Ramie Targoff, Renaissance Woman, ch. 1 (course pack)
Read: Correspondence between Vittoria Colonna and Marguerite of Navarre
Vittoria Colonna, Rime amorose, pp. 54-60 in Women Poets
Week Ten
Week Ten
The Lyric Voice
Read: Ramie Targoff, Renaissance Women, ch. 2 (course pack)
Vittoria Colonna, Rime spirituali, pp. 68-72
Week Eleven
Week Eleven
The Lyric Voice
Read: Veronica Gambara in Women Poets (pp. 23-32)
Read: Laura Battiferri Ammannati in Women Poets (pp. 160-168)
Week Twelve
Week Twelve
The Merits of Women
Read: Isabella Andreini, Letter on the Birth of Women in Women Poets, p. 226
Read: Introduction, On the Merits of Women
Week Thirteen
Week Thirteen
The Merits of Women
Read: Moderata Fonte, On the Merits of Women (pp.3-28)
Read: Moderata Fonte, On the Merits of Women (pp. 28-42)
Week Fourteen
Week Fourteen
The Merits of Women
Read: On the Merits of Women (pp.43-68)
Read: On the Merits of Women (pp. 69-84)
Week Fifteen
Week Fifteen
The Merits of Women
Read: On the Merits of Women (pp. 84-96)
Week Sixteen
Week Sixteen
Review
Did women have a Renaissance?
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