Week One:

Thursday, Sept. 25th - Introduction to course.

Readings: First chapter of Landau & Parshall pp. 1-6; first two articles in Course Reader (Ivins and Emison).

Tues. Sept. 30th - Discuss Ivins and Emison articles. The Medieval Manuscript: Forms, functions, production. Early prints.

Thurs. Oct. 2nd - Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Discuss Russell reading.

Readings: Chapter two of textbook, "Craft Guilds, Workshops, and Supplies" pp. 7-32; Course Reader Diane Russell introduction from Eva/Ave.

Tues. Oct. 7th - Visit to Special Collections. Meet at 10:00 in the Special Collections department (go up one level, then walk across catwalk over foyer). Beth Remak, a specialist on the history of books, will show us some of the collection's finest pieces and tell us a lot about the history of the early printed books.

Thurs. Oct. 9th - Discuss redings. Lucas Cranach's image of woman. Hans Baldung Grien. Jacopo de' Barbari's View of Venice. ES Master. Israel van Meckenem.

Readings: Textbook pp. 33-63. Course Reader Charles Talbot article.

Tues. Oct. 14th - Cont. from last week. Italian prints (Mantegna et. al). Short writing assignment assigned, due Tuesday, Oct. 21st in class.

Thurs. Oct. 16th - Mantegna and Durer. Discuss witches and witch imagery.

Readings: Textbook pp. 64-102; Course Reader "Witch's Sabbath", pp. 57-62; selection from the Malleus Maleficarum, pp. 63-68; "Death of Lucretia" and "Aristotle & Phyllis" pp. 69-72.

Tues. Oct. 21st - Gender and sexuality in the print. Eroticized and moralized bodies.

Thurs. Oct. 23rd - Discuss readings.

Readings: Textbook pp. 103-131; Course Reader selection from I Modi, pp. 73-91.

Tues. Oct. 28th - Power of Women, World Upside Down.

Thurs. Oct. 30th - Discuss readings. Take home midterm assigned. Due in class Tuesday, Nov. 4th in class.

Readings: Course Reader Janet Levy article, pp. 93-106; "Heroines and Worthy Women," pp. 107-128, & Keith Moxey's "E. S. Master and the Folly of Love", pp. 151-163.

Tues. Nov. 4th - The uses of images in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

Thurs. Nov 6th - Discuss readings.

Readings: Textbook 237-259 ("Prints as Facts"). Course Reader R. W. Scribner's "Images of Luther" and Christiane Andersson's "Polemical Prints in Reformation Nuremberg," pp. 165-199. [NOTE: Pages 169-237 in the textbook are optional readings. You may want to read them only if they pertain to a topic you are researching. The same is true of the last portion of the book, pages 260-368].

Tues. Nov. 11th - Holiday. Veteran's Day.

Thurs. Nov. 13th - The image of the peasant in Northern prints.

Readings: Course reader articles by Keith Moxey and Margaret Carroll, pp. 201-225.

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Tues. Nov. 18th - "Lessons for Ladies"; Prints and Revolution in France. The rise of caricature and satire.

Thurs. Nov. 20th - Caricature and satire in England: Hogarth and Rowlandson.

Readings: Course Reader articles "Lessons for Ladies," "Pornography and the French Revolution," and selection from Mark Hallet's book on Hogarth.

Tues. Nov. 25th - Anatomical Illustrations.

Thurs. Nov. 27th - Holiday. Thanksgiving Long Weekend.

Readings:Course Reader articles by Patricia Anderson, Margaret Beetham, and Patricia Anderson.

Tues. Dec. 2nd - New World Images and the Victorian woman in print. The rise of the woman's magazine.

Thurs. Dec. 4th - Research and writing period for papers. I shall also be in my office during class time for office visits regarding paper questions or research help, proofreading, exam preparation, and whatever other questions you may have.

Final Papers: Due in my Porter Faculty Services mailbox by Thursday, December 11th by noon.