All courses numbered 500 and above are graduate courses.
Undergraduates need to submit a course permit to enroll.
HIST 620 Cultural History and Textual Criticism
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
This seminar will present some key concepts of cultural history in relation with fundamental books that shaped or expressed them as, for example, representation and Gracián's "Art of Prudence"; civilizing process and Castiglione's "The Courtier"; domination and Las Casas' The Spanish Colonie; memory and "Don Quixote"; reading and writing practices and Montaigne's "Essays"; censorship and the Encyclopédie. Using the resources of the special collections of the Library, this seminar would like to show both the historical and historiographical construction of concepts and the mobility of essential works. The seminar will deal with their translations into different languages, their appropriation during all the early modern period (and after), and the plurality of their interpretations and uses.
