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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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Week 1 |
09/13 |
Introduction to the Course
• Exercise: geography
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Week 2 |
09/20 |
Spanish Empire – background history
• John Elliott, Imperial Spain (Prologue to Chapter 5)
• Exercise: topic identification and discussion orientation
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Week 3 |
09/27 |
Spanish Empire – background history
• John Elliott, Imperial Spain (Chapters 6-10)
• Exercise: topic identification and discussion practice
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Week 4 |
10/04 |
National holiday – no class |
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Week 5 |
10/11 |
Imperial Government under Philip II
• Geoffrey Parker, The Grand Strategy of Philip II (p. 13-110)
• Exercise: archives
• Response essay: most important theme
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Week 6 |
10/18 |
Imperial Government under Philip II
• Geoffrey Parker, The Grand Strategy of Philip II (p. 111-204)
• Optional: Parker, The Grand Strategy (p. 205-296)
• Exercise: documents and paleography
• Response essay: most important theme
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Week 7 |
10/25 |
Daily Life in Early Modern Spain
• David Vassberg, The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile (Introduction to Chapter 4)
• Optional reading: Vassberg (Chapter 5 to Conclusion)
• Response essay: relating two most important themes
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Week 8 |
11/01 |
No class – I will be at a conference |
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Week 9 |
11/08 |
The Spanish Empire in the Americas
• Restall and Lane, Latin America in Colonial Times (Preface to Ch. 7)
• John Elliott, “The Discovery of America and the Discovery of Mankind” (42-66)
• Exercise: critique essay
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Week 10 |
11/15 |
No class – university holiday |
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Week 11 |
11/22 |
Spaniards and Native Americans in the New World
• Restall and Lane, Latin America in Colonial Times (Chapters 8-12)
• Kenneth Mills and and Wiliam B. Taylor, Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History (excerpts)
• Exercise: critique essay and peer critique
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Week 12 |
11/29 |
Art and Empire
• John Elliott and Jonathan Brown, A Palace for a King (excerpts)
• John Elliott, “Art and Decline in Seventeenth-Century Spain” (263-286)
• Exercise: critique essay and peer critique
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Week 13 |
12/06 |
Class presentations |
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Week 14 |
12/13 |
Popular Religiosity and Practice
• William Christian, Local Religion in Sixteenth Century Spain (excerpts)
• Exercise: critique essay and peer critique
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Week 15 |
12/20 |
Catholic Reformation and Spirituality
• Jodi Bilinkoff, The Avila of Saint Teresa: Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City (excerpts)
• Exercise: critique essay and peer critique
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Week 16 |
12/27 |
The Spanish Inquisition, Society, and Culture
• LuAnn Homza, “The Spanish Inquisition”
• Richard Kagan, Lucrecia’s Dreams (all)
• Exercise: critique essay and peer critique
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Week 17 |
01/03 |
Final paper draft due |
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Week 18 |
01/10 |
Final paper due |