Students are expected to spend 5-6 hours for the readings and exercise each week.

*# for Chinese translations, * for English Translations not in Norton

3/7           Medieval history and philosophy

                The Spread of Islam and the Invention of the West (PP 1139-49)

                Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (*#I, 1-3, 5-6; PP 1-12, 20-30è*3-9, 14-20)

                Augustine: City of God (*#I, 1-9, V, 12-16; PP 16-26, 183-91è*PP 5-17, 196-205)

                Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne (*I, 1-3, II, 4-10; PP 55-65)

                Notker the Stammer: Charlemagne (*#I, 1-4, II, 1-4; PP 39-43, 70-72è*PP 93-97, 135-38)

3/14         Medieval Epic

                The Song of Roland (Introduction, 1-15, 80-90, 128-86; PP 1330-33, 1334-39, 1356-59, 1367-88è*#PP 1-21, 96-108, 158-233)

                The Lay of the Cid (*#Introduction, I, 1-5, 19-25, 54-63, 137-140; *PP 1-11, 36-46, 83-94, 266-82, 95-100, 103-05, 320-322è*7-9, 20-24, 39-44, 116-24)

3/21         Medieval Romance (1)

                Alan of Lille: Plaint of Nature (*Prose 3; PP 116-25)

                Chrétien de Troyes: Perceval (Introduction, 1-306, 489-634, 3315-3690; PP 1425-28, 1428-34, 1438-41, 1494-1502)

                Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival (*Introduction, I, 1-9, III, 1-134, XVI, 794-827; PP xi, xxi-xxv, 1-3, 37-43, 254-65)

3/28         Medieval Romance (2)

                Andreas Capellanus: The Art of Courtly Love (*I, 1, 6, II, 8, III; PP 28-29, 33-36, 77-86, 212)

                Marie de France: Lanval (Introduction, 1-645; PP 1405-06, 1406-21)

                Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun: The Romance of the Rose (ll1-698, 21185-21735; *PP 3-12, 327-35)

4/11         Medieval hagiography

                Thomas Aquinas: (VII, 4.1-3, VII, 7.1-2; *#PP 78-85, 113-16è*PP 113-27, 173-77)

                Jacobus da Varagine: The Golden Legend (*The Passion of our Lord, The Feast of the Conception of our Lady, The Life of S. Margaret, The Life of S. Mary Magdalen, The Life of S. Erkenwold, The Life of S. Thomas Aquinas)

4/18         Lyrics

                Medieval Lyrics (PP 1539-41)

                Hildegard of Bingen: “Responsory for the Virgin” (PP 1554-55)

                Beatrice of Dia: “A Lover’s Prize” (PP 1563)

                Arnaut Daniel: “The Art of Love” (PP 1550-52)

                Heinrich von Morungen: “The Wound of Love” (PP 1565-55)

                Alfonso X: “The Scorpions” (PP 1570-71)

                Christine de Pizan: “All alone I am” (PP 1590-91)

                Francis Petrarch: Love Lyric (Introduction, 1, 3, 34, 62, 126, 189, 333; PP 2064-67, 2068-71)

4/25        Midterm Examination

5/2           Medieval World View (1)

                Dante: The Divine Comedy (Introduction, Inferno, 1-5, 13, 19, 32-34; PP 1595-99, 1600-17, 1640-44, 1661-65, 1708-19)

5/9           Medieval World View (2)

                Dante: The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio, 1-2, 9, 12, 15, 26, 30, 31-32, Paradiso, 1-2, 5-7, 10, 14, 23, 26, 30, 33; PP 198-207, 234-38, 247-51, 261-65, 311-15, 329-43, 351-59, 368-81, 391-95, 409-13, 450-54, 463-67, 481-86è#*7-39, 133-148, 177-90, 223-235, 397-411, 465-85, 487-523; 7-35, 65-110, 145-159, 205-17, 345-60, 395-411, 459-72, 505-27)

5/16         Medieval World View (3)

                Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron (Introduction, Prologue, 1.1, 1.2, 10.9, 10.10, the Author’s Epilogue; *#PP 1-25, 26-40, 41-46, 882-900, 901-18, 919-24èPP 1795-99, *PP 45-68, PP 1799-08, *PP 82-86, PP 1826-39, 1839-46, *PP829-33)

5/23         Renaissance history and philosophy

                Europe and the New World: Early Modernity (PP 2023-37)

                Pico della Mirandola: On the Dignity of Man (*PP xxix-xxx, 3-18)

                Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince (Introduction, VII, XV, XXV, XXVI ; PP 2107-10, 2010-18è#*PP 72-77, 141-43, 215-27)

5/30         Renaissance Romance

                Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (Introduction, 23-25; PP 2118-20, 2120-31)

                Baldassare Castiglione: The Book of Courtier (Introduction, 1.1, 1.6-8, 1.12-16, 1.42-46, 4.5-10, 4; PP 2197-99, 2202-03, 2206-09, 2211-15, 2226-31, 2238-41, *322-28, *337-45)

5/30         Renaissance Satire

                God, Church, and Self (PP 2725-27)

                Martin Luther: “The Bondage of the Will” (Introduction, iii, ix, xviii-xix; PP xiv-xxi, 175-79, 187-90, 199-203)

                Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (PP 2080-83, 2083-86, 2092-98, 2103-07)

                François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel (Introduction, I, 52-57, II, 2, 8, 18-20; PP 2039, 2040-61è#*PP 195-212, 242-45, 279-84, 339-54)

6/6           Renaissance autobiography and pastoral

                Michel de Montaigne (Introduction, “To the Reader,” “Of Sadness,” “Our Feelings Reach out Beyond us,” “How the Soul Discharges its Passions on False Objects when the True are Wanting,” “Of the Power of the Imagination,” “Of Cannibals,” “On Some Sense of Virgil;” PP 2314-16, 2317, *6-8, *8-13, *14-15, 2317-2325, 2325-34è#*Vol. 1, PP 38, 6-10, 11-19, 20-23, 119-30, 251-65, Vol. 3, 103-111)

               Tasso: Aminta (Introduction, Prologue, I, i, 1-121, I, ii, 65-386, II, i, 1-97, IV, ii, 15-205, V, i, 56-157; PP xi-xiii, xxix-xxx, 3-19, 35-55, 59-65, 147-61, 169-75)

6/13         Renaissance epic

                Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered (The Argument of the Poem, I, 1-58, IV, 20-40, VI, 54-92, XII, 37-88 XX, 72-144, “Allegory of the Poem;” PP 2, 3-17, 73-77, 126-33, 262-73, 453-68, 469-74)

6/20         Renaissance anti-Romance

               Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote (Introduction, Prologue, I, 1-5, 7-8, 22, II, 14-15, 73; PP 2353-58, 2358-63, 2363-82, 2382-90, 2423-31, 2454-63, 2481-87è#*I, PP 3-12, 1-38, 50-67, 205-19, II, 111-25, 643-58)

6/27         Final Examination

張景翔 e0404ppp@hotmail.com

Course Requirements

1. Attendance and participation in class discussions are essential. Students who are absent for four or more than four times, excused or not, will fail this course.

2. Students are expected to read about 30 pages every week before class and be prepared to answer simple questions in class about the texts and participate in class discussions.

3. Students should bring a dictionary and a notebook to class.

4. No 3C products are allowed except for a quick check for vocabulary.

5. Students who cheat in exams or plagiarize will fail this course and will be given demerits.

Grading

1. Class attendance and discussion: 30%

2. Exercises: 30%

3. Midterm Examination: 20%

4. Final Examination: 20%

Textbooks

           Lawall, Sarah, ed.  The Norton Anthology of Western Literature.Vol.1.Ninth Edition.  New York: Norton, 2014.

Photocopied materials will be ready at the copy shop 馨園影印店 no later than March 1^st (1F, No. 2, Lane 119, Chi-nan Road, Sec. 2, the alley next to the Watsons across the main gate of the university; 台北市文山區指南路二段119巷2號1F; 29369521，可麗餅旁邊; 170 dollars for the English package; 250 dollars for the Chinese package).

波修斯。《哲學的慰藉》。陳芳郁譯。 哲學叢書48。台北：水牛，1986。

Boethius.  The Consolation of Philosophy.  Trans. Richard Green.  Library of Liberal Arts.  New York: Macmillan, 1962.

奧古斯丁。《天主之城》。 吳宗文譯。第二版。臺北市：臺灣商務，2014。

Augustine of Hippo.  Concerning the City of God against the Pagans.  Trans. Henry Bettenson.  Penguin Classics.  London: Penguin, 1972.

Augustine.  The City of God against the Pagans.  Ed. and Trans. by R.W. Dyson.  Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.

法蘭克·艾因哈德和聖高爾修道院僧侶。《查理大帝傳》 。戚國淦譯。北京：商務印書館，2009。

Einhard and Notker the Stammerer.  Two Lives of Charlemagne.  Trans. Lewis Thorpe.  Penguin Classics.  London: Penguin Books, 1969.

《羅蘭之歌》。楊憲益譯。桂冠世界文學名著l。臺北：桂冠，1993。

《熙德之歌》。趙金平譯。桂冠世界文學名著2。臺北：冠桂，1993。

The Poem of the Cid.   Trans. Lesley Byrd Simpson.  Berkeley: U. of California P, 1957. (861.27 EL19)

Capellanus, Andreas.  The Art of Courtly Love.  Trans. John Jay Parry.  Records of Western Civilization.  New York: Columbia UP, 1960.

Lorris, Guillaume de and Jean de Menu. The Romance of the Rose.  Trans. Frances Horgan.  Oxford World's Classics.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.

Alan of Lille.  Plaint of Nature.  Trans. James J. Sheridan.  Medieval Sources in Translation 26.  Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1980.

Wolfram Von Eschenbach.  Parzival, With Titurel and the Love-Lyrics.  Trans. Cyril Edwards.  Arthurian Studies LVI.  Cambridge: Brewer, 1994.

聖多瑪斯·阿奎那。《神學大全》。周克勤等譯。第七冊。高雄市：中華道明會，1998。

Aquinas, Thomas.  Summa Theologiae.  Trans. William Barden.  Cambridge: Blackfriars, 1964- .

De Voragine, Jacobus.  The Golden Legend (Aurea Legenda).  Englished by William Caxton.  Modernized by F. S. Ellis.  First Published by Temple Classics in 1900.  Medieval Sourcebook.  https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/goldenlegend/index.asp, Feb. 17^th, 2018.  Web.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.  The Decameron.  Trans. McWilliam, G. H.  Penguin Classics.  London: Penguin, 1972.

薄伽丘。《十日談》。鍾斯譯。桂冠世界文學名著58。台北：桂冠，1994。

Dante Alighieri.  The Divine Comedy. Trans. C.H. Sisson.  Oxford Classics.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.

但丁。《神曲》。黃國彬譯。三冊。臺北：九歌，2003。

Pico, Giovanni della Mirandola.  “On the Dignity of Man”  On the Dignity of Man / On Being and the One/ Heptaplus.  Trans. Charles Glenn Wallis.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1965.  3-34.

皮科·米蘭多拉。《論人的尊嚴》。北京：北大出版社，2010。

馬基維利。《君王論》。余承譯。臺北：尼羅河，2001。

Castiglione, Baldesar.  The Book of the Courtier.  George Bull.  Penguin Classics.  London: Penguin, 1967.

Luther, Martin.  Martin Luther: Selections from his Writings.  Ed. John Dillenberger.  New York: Anchor, 1962.

拉伯雷。《巨人傳》。成鈺亭譯。桂冠世界文學名著169和170。全二冊。臺北：桂冠，2005。

蒙田。《蒙田隨筆全集》。潘麗珍，王論躍譯。全三冊。臺北：商務印書，1997-98。

Montaigne, Michel.   The Complete Essays of Montaigne.  Trans. Donald M. Frame.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1976.

Tasso, Torquato.  Amita: a Patoral Play.  Trans. and Ed. Charles Jernigan and Irene Marchegiani Jones.  New York: Italica P, 2000.

Tasso, Torquato.  Jerusalem Delivered.  Ed. and Trans. Ralph Nash.  Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1987.

塞萬提斯。《堂吉訶德》。楊絳譯。聯經經典。全二冊。臺北：聯經， 1989。