History 231 Early Modern Europe

Lab I

1. Familiarize yourself with the class web page and the resources available at:

                          http://www.ctc.edu/~ttaylor/semod.htm

2. Go to the Medieval History Sourcebook links for the Renaissance

                          http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1x.html 

             Read Pico Della Mirandola: Oration On the Dignity Of Man (15th C. CE)

                          http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/pico.html

             Read Lorenzo De Medici: Paternal Advice To A Cardinal (C. 1491)  

                          http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lorenzomed1.html

             Look at these selections from The Book of the Courtier

A BREEF REHERSALL OF THE CHIEFE CONDITIONS AND QUALITIES IN A COURTIER

OF THE CHIEF CONDITIONS AND QUALITYES IN A WAYTYNG GENTYLWOMAN

                          http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html

             Go to The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt at

                          http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html

             Briefly summarize any one chapter of Burkhardt.

             Read selections from The Prince by Machiavelli:

                          http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/machiavelli.html

Lab Assignment: After reading your text and the documents above (as well as any other

linked resources) write a brief essay (1-2 pages) on what you consider to be the most

significant aspects of the period that historians have labeled the Renaissance.