| ses # | topics | key dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Courtly Love Tradition Introduction | |
| 2 | Domination and Desire | |
| 3 | Dolce Stil Nuovo | First reader response due |
| 4 | Ennobling Love: Sublimation and Subjection | |
| 5 | Historical Background: Secular Politics | Presentations I |
| 6 | Historical Background: Church Politics | Presentations II |
| 7 | Florentine History and the The Divine Comedy | |
| 8 | Epic and Romance | 5-page write-up of oral presentation due |
| 9 | Moral Perversion and Linguistic Distortion | |
| 10 | Confession and the Practice of Penitence | |
| 11 | Nature and the Power of Love | |
| 12 | Ecstatic Desire | |
| 13 | Moral Cosmology | Second reader response due |
| 14 | Visions of the Ideal Society | |
| 15 | The Ends of Language | |
| 16 | The Plague of Language | |
| 17 | Comedy and Tragedy | |
| 18 | Rhetoric and Redemption | |
| 19 | Historical Background: The Fourteenth-Century Renaissance in England | Presentations III |
| 20 | Britain and the Myth of Trojan Origins | |
| 21 | Ricardian Politics | 5-page write-up of oral presentation due |
| 22 | Free Will and Determinism | |
| 23 | Mediators and Mediation | Mandatory re-write due |
| 24 | Multiplicity and Indeterminacy | |
| 25 | Tragedy and Transcendence | |
| 26 | What Is This Thing Called Love? Conclusion | Final paper due |