Course Reading Packet

UNIT ONE

  1. Selections from the Book of Margery Kempe
  2. Selections from the writings of Julian of Norwich (“Divine Love”)
  3. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue & Tale (The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer)
  4. Selections from The Decameron (Giovani Boccaccio)

UNIT TWO

  1. Selections from the writings of Clare of Assisi
  2. Selections from the writings of Maddalena de’ Pazzi
  3. Selections from the writings of  Laura Cereta
  4. Selections from the writings of Bathsua Makin
  5. Selections from the writings of Moderata Fonte (a.k.a., Modesta Pozzo)

UNIT THREE

  1. Selections from “A Vindication for the Rights of Women” (Mary Wollstonecraft)
  2. Selections from “Casa Guidi Windows” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  3. “A View without a Room” (E.M. Forster)