Illuminations

Reading Schedule:

Week 1 (January 10): Marguerite Yourcenar, The Abyss

Week 2 (January 17): Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre; Photocopied handout from Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France: "City Women and Religious Change," pp 65-97.

Week 3 (January 24):  Michael Wolfe, ed., Changing Identities in Early Modern France, pp 191-248;  Photocopied primary source handout on witches; Photocopied handouts from Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France: "The Rites of Violence," pp 152-187, and "Printing and the People," pp. 189-226.

Week 4 (January 31):  Michael Wolfe, ed., Changing Identities in Early Modern France, pp. 46-77; 95-123;147-168; 295-324; 345-390; Photocopied handout from Natalie Zemon Davis, Society and Culture in Early Modern France:  "Strikes and Salvation in Lyon," pp. 1-16.

Week 5 (February 7):  Lisa Silverman, Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth and the Body in Early Modern France; History seminar essay due today.