Syllabus
Schedule of reading and assignments, course requirements, extension policy, important times and addresses. Printable version also available in Acrobat format (PDF).

Grading Standards for College Papers
What I look for in an A paper, in a B paper, etc.

Electronic Reserves
Online course readings in Portable Document Format (PDF). Access restricted to faculty, staff, and students of Macalester College. Please note that this link will take you to a preliminary statement on copyright restrictions. Before going on to the reserve archive, you will need to read this statement and then indicate your compliance by clicking on the "I accept the copyright guidelines" link at the bottom of the page. This will take you to the course listings. Scroll down to "ENG 26-01: Medieval and Renaissance Culture" and click on the hyperlink.

Other online readings, publicly available:

• John Foxe, Book of Martyrs (also known as Acts and Monuments)
• Jacob Burckhardt, "The State as a Work of Art" and "Personality." The full text of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is also available online.
• Martin Luther, "Two Kinds of Righteousness"
• Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors
• Plot outline of The Faerie Queene, book 1

Images
All images for this course can be found online at Mark Harden's Artchive, which is organized by author's last name.