Great Books Seminar III

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Continuing from Great Books Seminar II, and the first in the junior seminar sequence, this course focuses on great works of the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The texts include two treatises from Aquinas's <i>Summa Theologiae</i> (<i>On Law</i> and <i>On Faith</i>), Dante's <i>Divine Comedy</i> (in its entirety), Petrarch's <i>Ascent of Mont Ventoux</i> and <i>On His Own Ignorance and that of Others</i>, selections from Chaucer's <i>Canterbury Tales</i>, Julian of Norwich's <i>Showings</i>, Erasmus's <i>Praise of Folly</i>, Machiavelli's <i>The Prince</i>, More's <i>Utopia</i>, essays by Montaigne, St. Teresa of Avila's <i>Interior Castle</i>, and Cervantes's <i>Don Quixote</i>.