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Schedule of Lectures and Readings

Thursday, 4 Sept. Introductions
No tutorials this week. Begin reading for tutorial assignments in Week 2.

Monday, 8 Sept. Egypt, Israel and Assyria
Thursday, 11 Sept. Ancient Greece
Tutorial: Portable Greek Historians, 1-28, 140-215.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 6-65.

Monday, 15 Sept. Classical Greece
Thursday, 18 Sept. The Roman Republic
Tutorial : Portable Greek Historians, 217-90, 347-79.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 69-131.

Monday, 22 Sept. The Roman Empire
Thursday, 25 Sept. The Rise of Christianity
Tutorial: Portable Greek Historians, 441-42, 473-501; Letters of the Younger Pliny, 11-33, 35-57.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 135-65.

Monday, 29 Sept. The Establishment of Christianity
Thursday, 2 Oct. The Fall of the Roman Empire
Tutorial: Letters of the Younger Pliny, 109-84.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 169-87.

Monday, 6 Oct. The Rise of Europe
Thursday, 9 Oct. The Bonds of Medieval Society
Tutorial: Letters of the Younger Pliny, 234-301.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 230-71.

Monday, 13 Oct. Thanksgiving Holiday, Class Cancelled.
Thursday, 16 Oct. Midterm Exam. Details and essay topics now available.
Tutorial: Tutorials cancelled.

Monday, 20 Oct. The Relationship between Church and State
Thursday, 23 Oct. Life, Death, and Cathedrals
Tutorial: Song of Roland, 29-105.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 271-99.

Monday, 27 Oct. Colliding Worlds: the Crusades and Islam
Thursday, 30 Oct. Medieval Universities
Tutorial: Song of Roland, 105-56.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 209-20, 285-90.

Monday, 3 Nov. Monastic Reform and the Challenge of Heresy
Thursday, 6 Nov. The Black Death
Tutorial: The Prince, xv-xxxiv, 1-39.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 314-32.

Monday, 10 Nov. The Italian Renaissance
Thursday, 13 Nov. Northern Humanism
Tutorial : The Prince, 40-85.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 336-61, 406-12.

Monday, 17 Nov. The Origins of the Early Modern State
Thursday, 20 Nov. Trade and Exploration
Tutorial: The Obedience of a Christian Man, viii-xxix, 1-108.
Textbook Kishlansky, 368-99.

Monday, 24 Nov. Religious Reform in the Sixteenth Century: Protestantism. Essay due at lecture
Thursday, 27 Nov. Religious Reform in the Sixteenth Century: Catholicism
Tutorial: The Obedience of a Christian Man, 108-91.
Textbook: Kishlansky, 412-33.

Monday, 1 Dec. Life and Death in Early Modern Europe
Textbook: Kishlansky, 470-500.
No tutorials on or after 1 December.

Final Exam: Thursday, 11 Dec., 15:30-18:30 Details now available

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