Lecture
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Wk X
Tu 11/30 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
1788-1789: Fiscal Crisis and Estates General
DISCUSSION: Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen
and Declarations on Jews, Negroes, Women
Th 12/3 Revolution: 1789 to 1791
From Constitutional Monarchy to Regicide
Documents on Radicalization of the Revolution (Censer & Hunt):
(to be discussed in lecture IF there is time.) -- Response papers
on any of these documents may be turned in any time until
the last lecture. Remember, only TWO response papers anytime
in the quarter
(not 3 as originally stated).
Link to web page on the Revolutionary Calendar (worth a look):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
Wk XI
Tu 12/8 Revolution: First French Republic & the Terror
Thermidor and the Directory
Th 12/10 Rise of Napoleon and the French Empire
Edmund Burke and Counter Revolutionary Thought
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Wk IX
Tu 11/23 SNOW DAY: No class
Th 11/25 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, NO CLASS
Wk VIII
Tu 11/16 Reading: Rousseau, Discourse on Origin of Inequality and Selections from Social Contract, in Jacob, Enlightenment and Voltaire's Letter to Rousseau about Discourse on Inequality
ROUSSEAU: from Enlightenment to Romanticism
DISCUSSION: ROUSSEAU, Discourse on Origin of Inequality
Th 11/18 France in 18th Century: Background to the Revoluation
Louis XV: Legacy of Louis XIV, Taxation and parlements
Wk VII
Reading: Link to Pope's Essay on Man 1732 read with Candide
Tu 11/9 Background for reading Voltaire's Candide
DISCUSSION: Voltaire's Candide
Th 11/11 VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY: NO CLASS
READ ROUSSEAU, Discourse on Origin of Inequality for Tues
Wk VI Tu 11/2 MIDTERM EXAM, no lecture
Th 11/4 Enlightenment: Voltaire and the Encyclopedie
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Wk V
Tu 10/26 17th C. France: Louis XIV
Link to Bossuet reading: Politics drawn from the very words of Holy Scripture
DISCUSSION: Religion in the Age of Reason & Enlightenment
If you are doing a response paper, please write on one of these two :
Anonymous, Treatise of Three Impostors, Jacob pp. 94-114 or
Voltaire, Letters concerning the English Nation, pp.114-137
Th 10/28 Eastern Europe in 17th C: three separate links
Hapsburg Austria
Prussia
Russia
Wk IV
Tu 10/19 Scientific Revolution: Galileo to Newton (cont'd from Th)
17th C. Philosophy: Rationalism and Empiricism
DISCUSSION: Descartes Discourse on Method
Th 10/21 17th C. France: Richilieu, Louis XIII and the Fronde
Week III
Tu 10/12 England: from the Restoration to Glorious Revolution of 1688
Political Theory: Divine Right versus Social Contract
John Locke: Theorist of Constitutional Monarchy
DISCUSSION: John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Th 10/14 Dutch Republic
Scientific Revolution: Galileo to Newton (cont'd on Tu 10/19)
Week II New outline: English religious groupings
DISCUSSIONS: Tuesday: Hobbes Leviathan selections (link)
Thursday: Locke, Second Treatise of Govt.
Tu 10/5 Stuart Monarchy and English Civil War
Th 10/7 DISCUSSION: Hobbes Leviathan selections
to be continued on Tuesday October 12
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Week I
Th 9/30 Introduction: 17th C. Crises
Madame de Sevigne
Thirty Years' War
Mars & Venus in 17th C. Painting
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