Civilization Abroad: Engaging History and the Humanities in Europe

Introduction

A 21st Century Approach

1. “History isn’t what it used to be.”

A History Book for How Knowledge Works Today

Lean History

The Principle of Iteration

Travel Study and Experiential Learning

Structuring Travel Study

Organization of the Text

1. Part One: Let’s Make It Interesting

1.1 History and Humanities: Why Bother?

1.2 The Liberal Arts and Lifelong Learning

1.3 On the Way to Someplace Else: A Philosophy of Travel

1.4 How Not to Visit a Museum

1.5 Types of Sites and Visits

1. Part Two: Tools of Engagement

2.1 Keeping a Field Journal

1. Learning Goal for this Chapter
2. Keep a Journal Like Leonardo Da Vinci
3. Parameters for Journal Entries

2.2 Journaling Modes

1. Learning Goal for this Chapter
2. 2.2.1 Scene Setting
3. 2.2.2 Dialogue
4. 2.2.3 Personification
5. 2.2.4 Character Study
6. 2.2.5 Quest
7. 2.2.6 The Way to Someplace Else
8. 2.2.7 Brave New Worlds
9. 2.2.8 Copy book
10. 2.2.9 Book Banquet
11. 2.2.10 “Essay”
12. 2.2.11 Copia
13. 2.2.12 Sketching
14. 2.2.13 Foreign Language Experience
15. 2.2.14 Epistolary (Letter) Mode
16. 2.2.15 Review
17. 2.2.16 Scientific Observation

2.3 Learning Together

1. Learning Goal for this Chapter
2. Relating Your Learning

2.4 The Art of Conversation

1. Learning Goals for this Chapter
2. Court Life and Conversational Ease: “Sprezzatura”
3. Conversation as a Learning Tool
4. Practice Having Conversations
5. Discuss it!

2.5 Memorization

1. Part Three: Historical Periods and Modes

3.1 Historical Periods (Timeline and Summaries)

1. Learning Goals for this Chapter
2. Seven Historical Periods
3. Names and Numbers of Centuries
4. Discuss it!
5. Historical Periods: Quick Summaries
6. 1. The Renaissance
7. 2. The Reformation
8. 3. The Enlightenment
9. 4. Revolution and Romanticism
10. 5. Empire and Industry
11. 6. Modernism
12. 7. The Digital Age
13. (1) Sound Like You Know
14. (2) Call it into Question

3.2 Brave New Worlds (a Renaissance Mode)

1. Dare to explore the unknown and report your adventure descriptively.
2. Anthology

5.1 Renaissance Sources

5.1.3 Francesco Petrarch, Letters to Cicero

5.1.1 Oration on the Dignity of Man (Pico della Mirandola)

5.1.2 Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana

1. Visiting Raleigh’s Prison

5.1.4 Michel de Montaigne, from Of Cannibals

5.2 Reformation Sources

5.2.1 Erasmus of Rotterdam, John 1 (Greek/Latin New Testament, 1519)

5.2.2 Matthew 6:34 (Tyndale and KJV translations)

1. Willam Tyndale version (1526)
2. King James version (1611)

5.2.3 Isaiah 53:3-6 (King James Version, 1611)

5.2.4 John Donne, “Holy Sonnet 14”

5.2.5 John Donne, “Expostulation 19”

5.3 Enlightenment Sources

5.3.2 Thomas Sprat, “The History of the Royal Society”

5.4 Revolution and Romanticism: 18th-19th Centuries - Introduction

5.4.0 Revolution and Romanticism: Sources

5.4.1 William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

5.4.2 Romanticizing the Medieval: The Lady of Shalott

5.4.3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”

5.4.4 Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”

5.4.5 Edmund Burke - “On the Sublime”