Week of November 25th

Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break. I hope you all had a wonderful time with friends and family. We have two more weeks of study to complete this unit on the rise of Modern states (England, France, Spain, Holland & Germany).

*Our next exam is tentatively scheduled for Monday, December 10th.*

Monday

• Read: none
• Lecture: War of Three Henrys
• Workshop: TBA

Wednesday

• Read: Palmer 130-141 (& map on 142-3)
• Lecture: Thirty Years' War
• Workshop: Mapping the 30 Years' War

Friday

• Read: Palmer 170-181
• Lecture: Absolutism & Louis XIV
• Workshop: Absolutist Political Philosophy

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.

Week of November 4th

Tuesday, Nov 6

• Read: Palmer 106-114; Ginzburg 80-95
• Lecture: Rise of Spain & the Atlantic Economy
• Workshop: Discuss Ginzburg

Thursday, Nov 8

• Read: Palmer 121-130; Ginzburg 95-110
• Lecture: Rise of England & the Dutch Republic
• Workshop: Essay Planning

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.

Week of October 28

*Post-Sandy Update*
Please be advised that in spite of the school closure on Tuesday, we will proceed with our scheduled exam on Thursday.  

Tuesday CANCELLED

• Read: Ginzburg to page 80
• Lecture: Exam review
• Workshop: Discuss Ginzburg

Thursday

• Exam 2

Week of October 21

Monday, Oct 22

• Read: Palmer 93-98; Ginzburg 1-17
• Lecture: Catholic Counter-Reformation
• Workshop: Discuss Ginzburg

Wednesday, Oct 24

• Read: Ginzburg 18-58
• Lecture: Ginzburg Discussion
• Workshop: Building a body of knowledge

Friday, Oct 26

• Read: Ginzburg 58-100
• Lecture: Ginzburg Discussion
• Workshop: Exam prep
• Due: FRQ essay *optional - 2 page max*
• TBA

*Our next exam will be Thursday, November 1*

Week of October 14

Great job to everyone on the first unit. I was very pleased with the exam scores, and especially the amount of preparation everyone displayed through their notebooks. Hopefully you now have a sense of the rhythm of the course and what it takes to be successful. As we move into the next unit we are making a dramatic turn back to the origins of the Modern Period. At the same time, we will be adjusting to some very different textual materials and historiographical trends. Please ask lots of questions in class as you gain your footing on this unfamiliar ground.

Tuesday

• Read: Palmer 77-92
• Lecture: The Protestant Reformation
• Workshop: Building a Body of Knowledge

Thursday

• Read: Palmer 93-98; Ginzburg xi-xxvi (both prefaces)
• Lecture: Catholic Counter-Reformation
• Workshop: Understanding New Cultural History

Week of October 7

If you have not already done so, please order Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms ASAP. We will begin reading that book next week.

**no school Monday**

Wednesday

• Read: Palmer 49-55
• Lecture: The Catholic Church & The Plague
• Workshop: exam recap & MC strategy

Friday

• Read: Palmer 56-69
• Lecture: Italian Renaissance
• Workshop: intro to New Cultural History
• Due: correct the MC questions you missed - include for each:
• one bullet point paraphrasing what the question is asking
• one bullet point for each distracter explaining why it is wrong
• one bullet point for the correct answer, explaining why it is the best answer