Week of November 11
Reading for the week:
- Palmer: 121-130
- Ginzburg: complete
Tuesday, Nov. 13
- Lecture: Rise of England & the Dutch Republic
- Workshop: Essay Planning
Thursday, Nov. 15
- Lecture: finish rise of Atlantic states
- Workshop: notebooks
- Due: Ginzburg essay - respond to one of the prompts below
- be sure to include a strong, arguable thesis
Ginzburg essay prompts:
- Analyze various ways that Ginzburg uses the combination of oral
culture and printed works represented in Menocchio's trial to challenge
the assumptions of conventional top-down intellectual historiography.
- Analyze various ways that the humanist values of the Renaissance and Reformation influenced Menocchio's religious worldview.
- Analyze various ways that Menocchio's trial reflects the interaction
of Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter Reformation projects.
