Late Submission

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.

Turnitin will close at the deadline for submission of each written assessment tasks. Late submissions will need to be emailed direct to Dr. Baker and accompanied by an explanation for their lateness.

Extensions

Students who encounter difficulties in meeting the deadlines for written assessment tasks should apply for an extension via ask.mq.edu in advance of the due date. Students should familiarize themselves with the University's Special Consideration policy  (see Policies and Procedures) before submitting such a request.

Required and Recommended Texts

Required Texts

Required readings--including a variety of primary source documents and journal articles--will be listed week-by-week on the iLearn site and available through the University Library.

Per Faculty of Arts policy, all required readings are available on-line only but it is recommended that students print out the required readings and read them in hard copy as pedagogical research suggests that comprehension and recall are superior when reading hard copy text as opposed to reading on-line.

Recommended Readings

The following highly recommended general texts and source collections are available on Reserve in the MQ Library and/or available in electronic versions via the MQ Library.

Peter Burke The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy (1999)

William Caferro Contesting the Renaissance (2011)

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, ed. Michael Wyatt (2014)

The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook, ed. Kenneth R. Bartlett (2011)

A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido Ruggiero (2002)

Images of quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in LIterature, History, and Art, ed. Stefano Ugo Baldassari and Arielle Saiber (2000)

The Italian Renaissance: Essential Readings, ed. Paula Findlen (2002)

Margaret King, A Short History of the Renaissance in Europe (2017)

Major Problems in the History of the Italian Renaissance, ed. Benjamin G. Kohl and Alison Andrews Smith (1995)

Lauro Martines Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy (1988)

Anthony Molho Social and Economic Foundations of the Italian Renaissance (1969)

Charles Nauert Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (2006)

Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography, ed. Jonathan Woolfson (2005)

The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin MacLaughlin (1978)

The Renaissance World, ed. John Jeffries Martin (2007)

The Routledge History of the Renaissance, ed. William Caferro (2017)

Guido Ruggiero The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento (2015) 

The Society of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study, ed. Gene Brucker (1998)

Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630, David Chambers, Brian Pullan, and Jennifer Fletcher (2001)

Technologies Used and Required

This unit uses iLearn. All students are expected to have internet access, use of a computer, and fundamental computer skills.

Week 1: Once Upon a Time in Italy…

Week 2: The Classical Point-of-View: Humanism

Week 3: Wealth and Power

Week 4: The Classical Point-of-View: Visual Arts

Week 5: Did Women Have a Renaissance?

Week 6: No classes

Week 7: A Global Renaissance?

Week 8: Republics: Liberty and Tyranny

Week 9: Princes: Civility and Cruelty

Week 10: Popes: Faith, Power, and Glory

Week 11: The Renaissance Beyond Italy

Week 12: The Waning of the Renaissance

Week 13: Once Upon a Time in Italy