PROGRAM OF LIBERAL STUDIES
JUNIOR READING LIST
PLS 33101, SEMINAR III
Students are asked to purchase the indicated editions. With Instructor’s permission
other editions may be used. Students are expected to have done the first reading
when coming to the first meeting of the seminar.
1 Aquinas, Treatise on Law, Summa Theologiae [1272], 2.1,
trans. Parry, Questions 90-93
2 Aquinas, Treatise on Law, Summa Theologiae, Questions 94-97
3 Aquinas, On Faith, Summa Theologiae 2.2, trans. Jordan,
Prologue-Pt 2-2, Quest 1, 2, (Art 1-4, 10), 3, 4, (Art 3-5)
4 Aquinas, On Faith, Summa Theologiae, Questions 6, 10
5 Dante, The Inferno, The Divine Comedy [1321],
Cantos 1-17, trans. Mandelbaum
6 Dante, The Inferno, Cantos 18-34
7 Dante, Purgatorio, Cantos 1-18, trans. Mandelbaum
8 Dante, Purgatorio, Cantos 19-33
9 Dante, Paradiso, Cantos 1-17, trans. Mandelbaum
10 Dante, Paradiso, Cantos 18-33
11 Petrarch, "Ascent of Mount Ventoux" [1336] and "On His
Own Ignorance and That of Many Others" [1370], trans Nachod, in
The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, ed. Cassirer, Kristeller, Randall
12 Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales [1387-1400], trans. Coghill, "Prologue,"
"Knight’s Tale," "Millers Tale," and "Nun’s Priest Tale"
(each tale with accompanying prologues and epilogues where appropriate)
13 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Pardoner’s Tale," "Wife of Bath’s Tale,"
"The Clerk’s Tale," "Franklin’s Tale," and "Retraction"
(each tale with accompanying prologues and epilogues where appropriate)
14 Julian of Norwich, Showings [1393], trans. Colledge and Walsh
The Long Text, pp. 175-247
15 Julian of Norwich, Showings, pp. 248-343
16 Erasmus, The Praise of Folly [1511], in The Praise of Folly
and Other Writings, trans. Adams
17 Machiavelli, The Prince [1513], trans. Adams, Letter to Vettori,
Dedication and I-XIV
18 Machiavelli, The Prince, XV-XXVI
19 More, Utopia [1516], trans. Adams, Book I
20 More, Utopia, Book II
21 Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian" [1520], trans. Lambert,
in Three Treatises, pp. 262-316
22 Montaigne, Complete Essays of Montaigne [1580-1588],
trans. Frame, "To the Reader," "Of Cannibals," Of Experience,"
and "Of Repentance," pp. 2, 150-59, 610-21, 815-857
23 Montaigne, Complete Essays of Montaigne, "Apology for
Raymond Sebonde," pp. 318-33, 358-429c, 436b-41d,
453d (from the last line) to 457
24 Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle [1588], trans. Kavanaugh/Rodriguez, pp. 33-107
25 Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, pp. 108-196
26 Cervantes, Don Quixote [1604-1612], trans. Grossman,
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27 Cervantes, Don Quixote
28 Cervantes, Don Quixote
Note: There are 29, TH and 28, MW seminar meetings.
BECAUSE OF THE ORAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE, STUDENTS SHOULD
PLAN NOT TO LEAVE BEFORE LAST DAY OF FINAL EXAMINATION PERIOD.