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The Courtly Love Tradition
Introduction |
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Domination and Desire |
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Dolce Stil Nuovo |
First reader response due |
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Ennobling Love: Sublimation and Subjection |
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Historical Background: Secular Politics |
Presentations I |
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Historical Background: Church Politics |
Presentations II |
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Florentine History and the The Divine Comedy |
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Epic and Romance |
5-page write-up of oral presentation due |
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Moral Perversion and Linguistic Distortion |
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Confession and the Practice of Penitence |
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Nature and the Power of Love
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Ecstatic Desire |
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Moral Cosmology |
Second reader response due |
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Visions of the Ideal Society |
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The Ends of Language |
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The Plague of Language
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Comedy and Tragedy |
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Rhetoric and Redemption |
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Historical Background: The Fourteenth-Century Renaissance in England |
Presentations III |
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Britain and the Myth of Trojan Origins |
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Ricardian Politics |
5-page write-up of oral presentation due |
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Free Will and Determinism |
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Mediators and Mediation |
Mandatory re-write due |
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Multiplicity and Indeterminacy |
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Tragedy and Transcendence |
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What Is This Thing Called Love?
Conclusion |
Final paper due |