European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present (Berkeley): Week 1.

We'll kick off ILX – U with the first two lectures from the Thomas Lacquer iteration of the course, because iTunes provides both audio and video lectures. There's a slightly older Margaret Anderson section here but we'll primarily use the following:

iTunes audio
iTunes video
youtube

Let's kick off with lectures one and two this week (9/30-10/6).

no toga party?

Downloading lecture #1 to listen to at work tonight. Already feel smarter.

heh i was already watching these! i'm on lecture 7 now

the first hour of these kinds of courses are always kind cruddy

yeah always

it's only nice when you're an actual student and you know you won't have any real work that day

wait i have to watch as well? i cant do that at work :(

no, you can watch, but the audio lectures are posted above as well

Lecture 1 has taught me that California archetecture isn't very original.

I love his cadence, and when he laughs at his own jokes. First lecture a little disjointed, but def. interesting. I'mma gonna go search for reading list.

I'm in this too, dl'd on my ipod for tomorrow

Am gonna listen to this tonight/tomorrow.

Lecture 2: The "Renaissance" in Western and World History

Petrarch – Letters – http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch1.asp

Alberti – On Family – http://www.thecaveonline.com/APEH/renaissancedocument.html#alberti

Lecture 3: The State as a Work of Art

Machiavelli - Excerpts from The Prince – http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm

Lecture 4: "New" Worlds, "New" Peoples, "New" Goods

Las Casas - The Destruction of the Amerindians - (pp. 75-84) - http://books.google.com/books?id=855OHADOjJYC&lpg=PA42&dq=A%20short%20account%20of%20the%20destruction%20of%20the%20Indies&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false

Diaz - The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (pp. 99-101) - http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/sources/conquestofnewspain.html

Mendoza - The History of the Great and Mightie Kingdom of China (pp. 90-93) - http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofgreatmi14151gonz#page/n17/mode/2up

Watts, "Science, Religion, & Columbus’s Enterprise of the Indies" (pp. 286-290) - http://www.jstor.org/pss/25162774

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda – "On the Reasons for the Just War among the Indians" (1547) - https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/events/e000031.pdf

I like the prof too.

2nd lecture audio file is annoyingly quiet, having trouble following it w/ outside noise. annoying.

yeah, i had to crank it

hey remy, maybe as thread starter you should listen ahead and think of discussion points during the week, maybe? have it be like the thread is the seminar after the lecture, where we discuss what we are learning?

that's a good idea

o shit now I have to do it w/ financial markets

I am catching up. Listening to the lectures now. I really like this guy!

He's super engaging. I'll start w/ discussion prompts for next week – I'm a bit snowed under here. Maybe we can just start out by listing things we've learned/what's new to us?

I was interested to learn about the different governance structures operating immediately prior to the renaissance, how city states, independently run cities, nascent countries, the holy roman empire, various small ancestral territorialities and the church all vied for land and authority. While I knew that the borders of Europe (obv) shifted a lot, I didn't know that they weren't close to contiguous until relatively late in the game. Also the central trading corridor (to Constantinople?) makes a lot of sense as a defining line between East/West

Oh man I need to catch up already, how'd I not spot this till now

I love when professor gets laughing or distracted and talking about biking

Documents more worthwhile than textbooks if you only had to pick one, obv, but does uh, anybody have a bead on a PDF of the textbook?

are we going to have a Week 2 thread or

yes, is this ongoing in any way? Whereabouts are people with it?

(I listened to some lectures in the wrong order because I was confused. So I'm listening in the right order now, but have had to go back to the second lecture, on the renaissance.)

I think we're sticking to one thread per class?

ilx downtime killed momentum imo

yeah that's for sure