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Lecture 1: Renaissance Portraits

Giorgio Vasari on the Concept of a "Renaissance" (1550)
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469-1527
Sir Thomas More, 1478-1535
Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536

Lecture 2: The Age of Discovery

Resources for the Study of the Age of Exploration

The Myth of Prester John

Vasco de Gama and the Calecut Incident (1503)

The Journal of Christopher Columbus (1492)

Lecture 3: The Protestant Reformation: Luther and Calvin

Martin Luther Resources

Luther's Ninety-Five Theses (1517)
Luther's Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz (1517)
John Calvin Resources

Lecture 4: The Impact of Luther and the Radical Reformation

Luther Against the Peasants (1525)

Lecture 5: The Catholic Reformation

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Lecture 6: Europe in the Age of Religious Wars, 1560-1715

An Account of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

The Edict of Nantes (1598)
The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, October 22, 1685 

Lecture 7: The English Civil War

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

James I, Speeches to Parliament (1609)
The Petition of Right (1628)
The Dissolution of Parliament (March 1628)
The "Grand Remonstrance" (1642)
Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658

Lecture 8: Political Theory, 1660-1715

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Lecture 9: France in the 17th Century

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Lecture 10: The Scientific Revolution, 1543-1600

Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies (1543)

Lecture 11: The Scientific Revolution, 1600-1642

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642

Galileo, The Starry Messenger (1610)

Cardinal Bellarmine's Letter to Foscarini (1615)

Lecture 12: The Scientific Revolution, 1642-1730

Isaac Newton, 1642-1727

Preface to Isaac Newton's Principia (1687)
Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662

Lecture 13: The New Intellectual Order: Man, Nature and Society

Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592
René Descartes, 1596-1650
Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679

John Locke, 1632-1704

Lecture 14: A Century of Genius: Art, Philosophy and Drama

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