{"id":169,"date":"2014-08-18T02:54:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T06:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/?p=169"},"modified":"2024-01-29T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:23:55","slug":"course-schedule-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/2014\/08\/18\/course-schedule-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, even after the syllabus has been posted, be aware that assignments may change. HONS1102 students are always encouraged to watch the Announcements section of the course&#8217;s blackboard site and their emails, and to listen and make note of any changes as they are announced in class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/hons-1102-syllabus-2024-most-current-version\/\">HONS1102 printable syllabus for Spring 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">PLEASE NOTE: The schedule information that follows hereafter is &#8220;under construction.&#8221; In the meantime, refer to the course schedule that is included in the syllabus (which can be accessed by clicking the green link above)<em>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<dl><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/introduction-2\/'  title='Constantine, councils &amp; creeds'>Constantine, councils &amp; creeds<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/hippodrome_Theodosius_sm1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/hippodrome_Theodosius_sm1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/hippodrome_Theodosius_sm1-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theodosius presiding over the races in the Hippodrome in Constantinople<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, January 20, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eusebius, Life of Constantine (Readings in World Christian History, hereafter referred to as \u201cWCH\u201d 87-97)<\/li>\n<li>Letters of Arius and Alexander (WCH 98-101)<\/li>\n<li>Creeds (WCH 101-102)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/china-the-period-of-division-and-the-growth-of-chinese-buddhism\/'  title='China: The Period of Division &amp; the development of Buddhism'>China: The Period of Division &amp; the development of Buddhism<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Yungang_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Yungang_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/03\/Yungang_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buddha from Yungang Cave Northern Wei period, 5th century<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, January 25, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tao Qian (<em>Norton Anthology of World Literatures<\/em>, hereafter referred to as &#8220;NAWL&#8221; 1091-1104)<\/li>\n<li>Chinese Buddhism (<em>Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 1<\/em>, hereafter referred to as \u201cSCT\u201d 415-26, 433-34, 404-52, 471-74, 481-82, 485-89)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/augustine\/'  title='Augustine'>Augustine<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"131\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/augustine_6v_lateran.small_-131x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augustine  Lateran Basilica, Rome 6th century<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, January 27, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Confessions (NAWL 49-56, 58-62)(3rd ed 49-56, 58-62) (Course Packet, hereafter referred to as \u201cCP\u201d, pp. 1-5)<\/li>\n<li>City of God (WCH 195-206, ch. 4, 10, 13, 17, 26, 27) (CP 6-7)<\/li>\n<li>Augustine on the Jews (CP 8-9)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/monasticism\/'  title='Monasticism'>Monasticism<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"142\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/StCatherines_Monastery_MtSinai_sm-150x142.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Catherine's Monastery Mount Sinai, 6th century<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, February 1, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Athanasius, <em>Life of Anthony<\/em> (WCH 131-44 \u2013 intro, ch. 1-5, 8-10, 14, 44-47, 50, 69-73, 81, 87, 93)<\/li>\n<li>Basil, <em>Longer Rule<\/em> (WCH 144-47)<\/li>\n<li>Benedict, <em>The Rule of St. Benedict<\/em> (<em>Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West,<\/em> hereafter referred to as \u201cICCW\u201d 175-89)<\/li>\n<li>Selections from the Desert Fathers and the Cistercians (CP 10-12)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/constantinople-justinian-and-the-late-roman-empire\/'  title='Justinian, Orthodoxy, and the Byzantine Empire '>Justinian, Orthodoxy, and the Byzantine Empire <\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Justinian_Meister_von_San_Vitale_in_Ravenna_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Justinian_Meister_von_San_Vitale_in_Ravenna_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Justinian_Meister_von_San_Vitale_in_Ravenna_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justinian and his court San Vitale, Ravenna<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, February 3, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Council of Chalcedon (WCH 165-71, 175-76)<\/li>\n<li>Third Council of Constantinople, Exposition (CP 13-14)<\/li>\n<li>Justinian, <em>Corpus Iuris Civilis<\/em> (CP 15-16)<\/li>\n<li>Justinian, <em>Novella VI<\/em> (CP 17)<\/li>\n<li>Justinian, <em>Novella 146 On the Jews<\/em> (CP 18-19)<\/li>\n<li>Agapetus, \u201cAdvice to the Emperor Justinian\u201d (CP 20)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/islam-quran-and-muslim-origins\/'  title='The Quran'>The Quran<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/14thcenturanDamascusth.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">14th century Quran, Damascus<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, February 8, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Qur\u2019an, Sura 1, 4, 12, 55, 77-107 (Norton Anthology of World Religions: Islam, <\/em>hereafter referred to as \u201cNAWR- Islam\u201d)<em><br>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/china-tang-dynasty\/'  title='China: Tang Dynasty'>China: Tang Dynasty<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Zhaoyebaitu_by_Han_Gan_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Zhaoyebaitu_by_Han_Gan_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Zhaoyebaitu_by_Han_Gan_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Night-Shining White, by Han Gan, c. 750<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, February 10, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Han Yu (SCT 568-73, 582-86)<\/li>\n<li>The Meditation School of Chinese Buddhism (SCT 491-504)<\/li>\n<li>Nestorian Stele and Chinese Christian Sutras (WCH 243-51)<\/li>\n<li>Tang Poetry (instructors\u2019 choice from NAWL)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/islam-the-prophet-and-his-followers\/'  title='Continuity and Tradition in Judaism and Islam'>Continuity and Tradition in Judaism and Islam<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Talmud-Scrolls-Possibility-for-HONS1101-session-entitled-Jews-in-Late-Antiquity-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Talmud-Scrolls-Possibility-for-HONS1101-session-entitled-Jews-in-Late-Antiquity-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Talmud-Scrolls-Possibility-for-HONS1101-session-entitled-Jews-in-Late-Antiquity-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talmud Scrolls<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, February 15, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Babylonian Talmud (CP 21-33)<\/li>\n<li>Hadith from Muslim Ibn Al-Hajaj (NAWR-Islam, 170-179)<\/li>\n<li>Hadith from Bukhari (CP 34)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>First Paper Due<\/strong><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/faith-and-reason-1-jewish-and-muslim-thinkers\/'  title='Faith &amp; Philosophy in Islam'>Faith &amp; Philosophy in Islam<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"123\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/madrasa_bun-inania_meknes_sm-150x123.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madrasa bun Inania Meknes, Morocco Founded by Abu Inan Faris in 1350<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, February 17, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ibn Rushd, The Decisive Treatise\u00a0 (NAWR-Islam, 277-85)<\/li>\n<li>Al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error (CP 36-46) (NAWR-Islam, 418-31)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/church-and-state-in-the-west-papacy-and-empire-in-the-early-middle-ages\/'  title='Church &amp; State'>Church &amp; State<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2022\/02\/CLaudius_Jacquand_le_couronnement_de_Charlemagne_roi_des_Lombards_08267-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from The Coronation of Charlemagne (as depicted by Claudius Jacquand, 19th Century) <\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, February 22, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pope Gelasius, On spiritual and temporal power (CP 47)<\/li>\n<li>John of Damascus, <em>On the Divine Images<\/em> (WCH 291-94, ch. 6. 7, 11, 14)<\/li>\n<li>The Iconoclast controversy (CP 48-50)<\/li>\n<li>Popes and Carolingian kings (CP 51-52)<\/li>\n<li>The Donation of Constantine (CP 53-54)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/china-song-dynasty\/'  title='China: Song Dynasty'>China: Song Dynasty<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Chinesischer_Maler_des_11._Jahrhunderts_sm-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Chinesischer_Maler_des_11._Jahrhunderts_sm-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Chinesischer_Maler_des_11._Jahrhunderts_sm-1-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scholar in a Meadow  11th century<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, February 24, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wang Anshi (SCT 609-16)<\/li>\n<li>Zhu Xi (SCT 697-702, 706-707, 713-14, 720-22, 725-27, 729-31, 749-51)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/class-cancelled-because-of-weather-conditions\/'  title='War in Islamic &amp; Christian Traditions'>War in Islamic &amp; Christian Traditions<\/a><\/h4>\n <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, March 1, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Augustine, <em>To Count Boniface; Reply to Faustus the Manichean<\/em> (CP 55-59)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Aquinas, <em>Summa Theologica<\/em> (CP 60-65)<\/li>\n<li>The Qur\u2019an on warfare (CP 66)<\/li>\n<li>Hadith on jihad from the collection of Muslim Ibn Hajjaj (CP 67-70)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/christian-muslim-encounters-1\/'  title='Christian\/Muslim Encounters'>Christian\/Muslim Encounters<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/second-conquest-Tintoretto_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/second-conquest-Tintoretto_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/second-conquest-Tintoretto_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Capture of Constantinople Tintoretto, Ducal Palace, Venice<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, March 3, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Pact of Umar<\/em> (CP 71)<\/li>\n<li>Patriarch Timothy, \u201cApology before the Caliph Mahdi\u201d (WCH 231-42)<\/li>\n<li>Patriarch Nicholas I Mysticus, \u201cLetters to Muslim rulers\u201d (CP 72)<\/li>\n<li>Pope Urban II, \u201cSpeech at the Council of Clermont\u201d (CP 73-78)<\/li>\n<li>Guibert de Nogent, <em>The Deeds of God through the Franks<\/em> (WCH 324-34)<\/li>\n<li>Ibn al-Athir (WCH 334-35)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102, HONS 2105\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/spring-break-no-class\/'  title='Spring Break - No class'>Spring Break &#8211; No class<\/a><\/h4>\n <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, March 8, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102, HONS 2105<br>\n --><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102, HONS 2105\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/spring-break-no-class-2\/'  title='Spring Break - No Class'>Spring Break &#8211; No Class<\/a><\/h4>\n <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, March 10, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102, HONS 2105<br>\n --><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/universities-and-medieval-art\/'  title='Development of Scholastic Method and Universities'>Development of Scholastic Method and Universities<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Sainte_Chapelle_-_Upper_level_1_med-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Sainte_Chapelle_-_Upper_level_1_med-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Sainte_Chapelle_-_Upper_level_1_med-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sainte Chapelle, Paris  1250<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, March 15, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert De Courcon, \u201cStatutes for the University of Paris\u201d (CP 79-80)<\/li>\n<li>Peter Abelard, Sic et Non (CP 81)<\/li>\n<li>Domingo Gundisalvo, <em>De divisione philosophiae<\/em> (CP 82-83)<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Aquinas, <em>Summa Theologica<\/em> (ICCW 203-204 Second Article, 206-207 Fifth Article, 220-23 First, Second, and Third Articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Midterm Exam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/faith-and-reason-2-anselm-and-thomas-aquinas\/'  title='God and Philosophy'>God and Philosophy<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/FrancescoTraini-Triumph-of-St-Thomas-Aquinas_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/FrancescoTraini-Triumph-of-St-Thomas-Aquinas_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/FrancescoTraini-Triumph-of-St-Thomas-Aquinas_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas, by Francesco Traini 1340<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, March 17, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anselm, <em>Proslogion<\/em> (CP 84-85)<\/li>\n<li>Maimonides, <em>Guide for the Perplexed<\/em> (CP 86-90)<\/li>\n<li>Aquinas, <em>Summa Contra Gentiles<\/em> (CP 91-93)<\/li>\n<li>Aquinas, <em>Summa Theologica<\/em> (ICCW 202-203 First Article, 209-14)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/snow-day-university-closed\/'  title='The Influence of Aristotle and the development of medieval science'>The Influence of Aristotle and the development of medieval science<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2016\/01\/University-of-Paris-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">This 16th century miniature depicts a meeting of doctors at the University of Paris.<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, March 22, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adelard of Bath, <em>Natural Questions<\/em> (CP 94-96)<\/li>\n<li>Domingo Gundisalvo, <em>De divisione philosophiae<\/em> (CP 97-100)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cStatute of the Faculty of the Arts, 1272\u201d (CP 101)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Condemnations of 1277\u201d (CP 102)<\/li>\n<li>John Buridan, <em>Questions on the Eight Books of the Physics of Aristotle<\/em> (CP 103-105)<\/li>\n<li>John Buridan, <em>Questions on the Four Books On the heavens and the World of Aristotle<\/em> (CP 106-107)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Second Paper Due<\/strong><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/church-and-state-in-the-west-papacy-and-empire-in-the-high-middle-ages\/'  title='Political Theory'>Political Theory<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2022\/02\/Al-Farabi-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abu Nasr Al- Farabi monument, Kazakh National State University <\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, March 24, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aquinas, <em>On the Governance of Rulers<\/em> (ICCW 241-55)<\/li>\n<li>Dante, <em>De Monarchia<\/em> (ICCW 302-305, 310-21)<\/li>\n<li>Al-Farabi, <em>The Virtuous City<\/em> (NAWR-Islam 258-65)<\/li>\n<li>Ibn Sina, <em>The Book of Healing<\/em> (NAWR-Islam 267-69, 274-76)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/religious-outsiders-in-western-europe\/'  title='Who&#039;s in charge here?'>Who&#039;s in charge here?<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Magna_charta_cum_statutis_angliae_p1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Magna_charta_cum_statutis_angliae_p1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Magna_charta_cum_statutis_angliae_p1-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magna carta cum statutis angliae (Great Charter with English Statutes), early 14th-century<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, March 29, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charter of Homage and Fealty\/The Peace of God (CP 108-109)<\/li>\n<li>Pope Gregory VII, \u201cDictatus Papae\u201d (CP 110)<\/li>\n<li>Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV (CP 111-114)<\/li>\n<li><em>Magna Carta<\/em> (ICCW 416-19, 422, 425-27)<\/li>\n<li>Villani, <em>Florentine Chronicle<\/em> (CP 115-122)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/mendicants-and-mystics\/'  title='Mendicants, Heretics, Jews'>Mendicants, Heretics, Jews<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/giotto_francis_sm-140x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Francis preaching to the birds (Giotto, Basilica of St. Francis, Assisi)<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, March 31, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francis of Assisi, <em>Testament,<\/em> \u201cCanticle of the Sun,\u201d <em>Rule of the Franciscan Order<\/em> (CP 123-127)<\/li>\n<li>Soloman bar Samson (CP 128-130)<\/li>\n<li>Pope Innocent III, Constitution for the Jews (CP 131)<\/li>\n<li>Pope Innocent III, (ICCW 393-94)<\/li>\n<li>Nicetas Choniates on the Fourth Crusade (WCH 335-36)<\/li>\n<li>Bernard Gui, <em>Manual of the Inquisitor<\/em> (ICCW 256-65)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/dante\/'  title='Dante - The Divine Comedy'>Dante &#8211; The Divine Comedy<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/botticelli_dante_sm-128x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dante Aligheri, by Sandro Botticelli, 1495<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, April 5, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Inferno,<\/em> cantos 1-5, 18-19, 28, 33-34 (NAWL)<\/li>\n<li><em>Courtly love and poetry<\/em> (CP 132);\u00a0 (NAWL, selected by instructors)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/dante-the-divine-comedy\/'  title='Dante: The Divine Comedy'>Dante: The Divine Comedy<\/a><\/h4>\n <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, April 7, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Inferno<\/em>, cantos 33-34 (NAWL)<\/li>\n<li><em>Purgatorio<\/em>, cantos 1,2, 27, 30<\/li>\n<li><em>Paradiso<\/em>, canto 33<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/the-late-empire-and-the-14th-century-crisis-in-the-west\/'  title='Byzantines, Latins &amp; Muslims'>Byzantines, Latins &amp; Muslims<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Rumi-possibility-for-HONS-1102-session-Late-Medieval-Mysticism-and-piety-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Rumi-possibility-for-HONS-1102-session-Late-Medieval-Mysticism-and-piety-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2015\/01\/Rumi-possibility-for-HONS-1102-session-Late-Medieval-Mysticism-and-piety-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jal\u0101l ad-D\u012bn Muhammad R\u016bm\u012b<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, April 12, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Lives of Mar Yahbh-Allaha and Rabban Sawma<\/em> (WCH 373-78)<\/li>\n<li>Sunjata (<em>NAWL Volume C<\/em>, 12-16, 27-28, 32-35, 50-58)<\/li>\n<li>Ibn Khaldun, <em>The Muqaddimah<\/em> (CP 133-135)<\/li>\n<li>Rumi (NAWL 381-86)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102, HONS 2105\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/holy-thursday-no-classes\/'  title='Holy Thursday - No classes'>Holy Thursday &#8211; No classes<\/a><\/h4>\n <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, April 14, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102, HONS 2105<br>\n --><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/chaucer\/'  title='Boccaccio &amp; Chaucer'>Boccaccio &amp; Chaucer<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/04\/chaucer-harvard_sm-144x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geoffrey Chaucer<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, April 19, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p>Read before class:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Decameron<\/em> (NAWL 719-28)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Canterbury Tales<\/em> (NAWL 772-819)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/black-death-boccaccio\/'  title='The Late Middle Ages'>The Late Middle Ages<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Giovanni_Boccaccio_and_Florentines_who_have_fled_from_the_plague_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Giovanni_Boccaccio_and_Florentines_who_have_fled_from_the_plague_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Giovanni_Boccaccio_and_Florentines_who_have_fled_from_the_plague_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boccaccio and Florentines fleeing the plague, from a 1485 Bruges manuscript<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, April 21, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Responses to the Black Death (CP 136-141)<\/li>\n<li>John Wycliffe (ICCW 679-81)<\/li>\n<li>The Council of Constance (WCH 414-15)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/china-4-yuan-and-early-ming\/'  title='China: Early Ming Dynasty'>China: Early Ming Dynasty<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2016\/01\/Empress-Yu-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empress Xu<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, April 26, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Empress Xu (SCT 831-36)<\/li>\n<li>Wang Yangming (SCT 841-55)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Third Paper Due<\/strong><\/p><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/renaissance-in-art-literature\/'  title='Renaissance Society and Politics'>Renaissance Society and Politics<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2016\/01\/detail-from-The-Creation-of-Adam-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from the Sistene Chapel, Michelangelo's \"Creation of Adam\"<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, April 28, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leonardo Bruni , \u201cPanegyric to the City of Florence\u201d (CP 142-143)<\/li>\n<li>Petrus Paulus Vergerius, \u201cThe New Education\u201d (CP 144-147 )<\/li>\n<li>Juan Luis Vives, <em>On Assistance to the Poor<\/em> (CP 148-150)<\/li>\n<li>Christine de Pizan, <em>Book of the City of Ladies<\/em> (NAWL 893-98, 908-12)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/renaissance-humanism-and-art\/'  title='Renaissance Humanism'>Renaissance Humanism<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Platina_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Platina_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/02\/Platina_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library  Melozzo da Forli, 1477  Vatican Museums<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, May 3, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coluccio Salutati, \u201cLetters\u201d (ICCW 565-80)<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , <em>Oration on the Dignity of Man<\/em> (ICCW 581-87)<\/li>\n<li>Juan Luis Vives, <em>A Fable about Man<\/em> (CP 151-157)<\/li>\n<li>Giorgio Vasari, \u201cMichelangelo Buonarroti\u201d (ICCW 592-609)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/exploration-conquest-encounter\/'  title='Exploration, conquest, encounter'>Exploration, conquest, encounter<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2022\/02\/cortez-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s, 17th century, oil on canvas, Museo Naval de Madrid<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nThursday, May 5, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James I of Aragon (WCH 336-38)<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Columbus, \u201cLetter Concerning the First Voyage\u201d (Norton 540-44)<\/li>\n<li>Hernan Cortes, \u201cThe Second Letter\u201d (Norton, 547-57)<\/li>\n<li>The Florentine Codex (Norton 557-63)<\/li>\n<li>Inca Garcilaso De La Vega, <em>Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru<\/em> (Norton 574-80)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><dt class=\"HONS 1102\"><h4><a href='http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/events\/machiavelli-the-prince\/'  title='Machiavelli'>Machiavelli<\/a><\/h4>\n <div class=\"event-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/04\/Machiavelli_sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"eme_event_image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/04\/Machiavelli_sm-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/files\/2014\/04\/Machiavelli_sm-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bust of Niccol\u00f2 di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy<\/span><\/div>  <\/dt>\n<dd>\nTuesday, May 10, 2022<br>\n<br>\n<!-- HONS 1102<br>\n -->\n<p><strong>Read before class:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Prince<\/em> (ICCW 459, 463-79)<\/li>\n<li><em>Discourses on Livy<\/em> (CP 158)<\/li>\n<\/ul><br>\n<\/dd><\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/honors\/2014\/08\/18\/course-schedule-2\/\">Spring 2024 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