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Module 6 - Part
4: Web Resources
Other parts of this module include:
Index |
Part 1: Overview |
Part 2: Explorations and Exercises
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3: Texts and Contexts
The Emergence of the Personal in the European Renaissance
Reflections of intellectual discourse in the works of Montaigne
and Shakespeare
Philosophical backgrounds for reading Montaigne
A page on Montaigne in a philosophy class site, with links
to other biographical sketches and a full range of the essays
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A brief introduction to the philosophical tradition
that embraces skepticism, culminating in a discussion
of the
way
Montaigne's work provides a synthesis of these different
strands of thought.
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Backgrounds for the study of Renaissance psychology as
reflected in Hamlet
A substantial site, tracing ideas of madness and melancholy
back to the ancient Greeks and up to the Renaissance world
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A rich site with a great deal of information on connections
between Hamlet and the virtual epidemic of melancholy that
afflicted so many Renaissance intellectuals
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This brief selection from A Treatise of Melancholy
(1586) by Timothy Bright demonstrates some of the symptoms
that may be observed in Hamlet: difficulties with memory,
witty connections, fearful dreams.
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A clever essay that applies the work of a Renaissance
physician to Hamlet's case
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Materials for linking verbal and visual portraiture
A page in a course site sums up the connection between
Castiglione's
verbal articulation of the ideal of sprezzatura and
Raphael's brilliant exemplification of the ideal
in visual terms.
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A 1640 self-portrait by Rembrandt from the collection
of the National Gallery in London that was influenced
by Raphael's
portrait of Castiglione. Note the resemblance as well
to the pose taken by Monteverdi in the portrait by Strozzi.
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A publisher's notification of a recent book comparing
the self-portraits of Rembrandt and Montaigne
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The story of Narcissus: the danger of self-knowledge and
the mirror
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The role of current events in Montaigne's Essays
Backgrounds for understanding the religious controversies
of Montaigne's day
An account of a French historian who lived through
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (August 24, 1572),
from the Hanover Historical Texts Project.
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A map from the excellent historical site at Fordham
University that shows the religious divisions of Montaigne's
world. Note the striped effect throughout France, marking
neighboring
areas dominated by Catholic or Huguenot sympathizers.
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Savagery in the New World
An excellent site developed by the Public Broadcasting
System in connection with a series of television programs
on the
conquest of the New World. The illustration captures
the moment to which Montaigne alludes in concluding "Of
Coaches."
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A sociological sketch of the Incas that may usefully
be read against Montaigne's comments in "Of
Cannibals"
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An Aztec account of the confrontation between Cortés
and Montezuma written shortly after the Spanish conquest
of
Mexico
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On the development of the Shakespearean soliloquy
A brief definition of the term from the University of Virginia
Writer's Guide
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A useful outline guide for analyzing Shakespearean soliloquies
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Music and individualism in the Renaissance
An article by the modern composer Eli Siegmeister on the
development of a personal element in Western music, with a
good paragraph on the Renaissance
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An educational site that discusses the ways in which Palestrina
broke with tradition
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Amusing personal reflections on the importance of Monteverdi's
work as a contribution to the evolution of musical style
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A solid introduction to the life and work of Claudio Monteverdi
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Program notes for a choral concert in Seattle, with an excellent
entry for a variety of works by Monteverdi
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Representations of the mind at work in Chinese literature
Backgrounds for reading the poetry of Tu Fu
An excellent site created by the East Asian Studies program
at Columbia University
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An outline of important intellectual and cultural elements
of the Ming Dynasty, the chronological match to the European
Renaissance. Note the description of Wang Yang-min's "school
of mind" individualism.
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