The ideals of Monarch, Scientist, Reformer, Missionary, Explorer, Artist and Mystic are examined in this course. The reading list includes: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Dante, Divine Comedy; Catherine of Siena, Dialogue; Joinville, Life of St. Louis; Pisan, City of Ladies; Machiavelli, The Prince; More, Utopia; Galileo, Dialogues; Copernicus, On Revolutions; Loyola, Spiritual Exercises; Luther, The Freedom of a Christian; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Da Vinci, from Notebooks; Cortes, Letters from Mexico; Columbus, Four Voyages to the New World; de las Casas, In Defense of the Indians; Milton, Paradise Lost. Prerequisite: HNRS 1392.
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