Monday, April 13, 2009

Summer Schedule 2009

Our reading group will be moving into the Middle Ages after we complete our study of Church history. The schedule for summer and fall reading is listed below:

Session 1

  • Beowulf (c. 725)
  • Tales from the 1001 Nights (or, 1001 Arabian Nights) (c. 850?)
  • Letters of Abelard and Heloise (c. 1130-1136)
  • The Song of Roland (c. 1100)
    Summa Theologica (1265-1273)
  • The Divine Comedy (c. 1306-1321)
  • Canterbury Tales (c. 1386)
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Late 14th Century)
  • La Mort D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
Session 2

  • The Prince (c. 1505 or 1515; pub. 1532)
  • The Courtier (1528; Hoby's tr. 1561)
  • Utopia (1516)
  • Ninety-five Theses (1517)
  • Essays (1575)
  • Don Quixote (1615)
  • The Faerie Queene (1596)
  • Essays (1601)
  • Doctor Faustus (1593?; pub. 1604)
  • Sermons (c. 1615-1631)
  • The Leviathan (1651)

For a PDF schedule of our reading list and assignments, click here!