This is a guide with links to full-text/audio resources of program works. Below is a list of databases with full-text sources and audio recordings. For help accessing these resources, please contact Catherine Hines, Library Director at 410-626-2550 or catherine.hines@sjc.edu.
| Digital Loeb Classical Library | Early Modern Texts | Naxos Spoken Word Library | Open Library (Internet Archive) | Project Gutenberg |
| Date | Reading | Online Resources |
|---|---|---|
| January 8 |
Dante: Divine Comedy: Inferno I-XVII |
Complete Divine Comedy Texts
Inferno-Only Texts
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| January 11 |
Dante: Divine Comedy: Inferno XVIII-XXXIV |
(see January 8 links) |
| January 15 |
Dante: Divine Comedy: Purgatorio I-XVIII |
(see January 8 links for complete Divine Comedy texts) Purgatorio-Only Texts
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| January 18 |
Dante: Divine Comedy: Purgatorio XIX-XXXIII |
(see January 8 and 15 links) |
| January 22 |
Dante: Divine Comedy: Paradiso I-XVII |
(see January 8 links for complete Divine Comedy texts) Paradiso-Only Texts
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| January 25 |
Dante: Divine Comedy: Paradiso XVIII-XXXIII |
(see January 8 and 22 links) |
| January 29 |
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae First Part of the Second Part: Question 90; Question 91: Articles 1-5; Question 93: Articles 1-3, 5, 6; Question 94; Question 95: Articles 1-2; Question 96: Articles 2-6; Question 97: Articles 1-3 |
Complete Summa Theologiae Texts
First Part of the Second Part-Only Texts
|
| February 1 |
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae First Part of the Second Part: Question 100: Articles 1-3, 9, 10, 12; Questions 106, 108, 109 |
(see January 29 links) |
| February 5 |
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae Second Part of the Second Part: Questions 1-2, 4; Christian Creeds |
(see January 29 links for complete Summa Theologiae texts) Second Part of the Second Part
Christian Creeds
(also available in the bookstore at the back of the "Selections from the Summa Theologica" class manual) |
| February 8 |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales General Prologue; Knight’s Tale |
Complete Canterbury Tales Texts
Audio Versions of Selected Tales (Naxos Spoken Word Library)
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| February 12 |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales Miller’s Prologue and Tale; Reeve’s Prologue and Tale |
(see February 8 links) |
| February 15 |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale; Clerk’s Prologue and Tale |
(see February 8 links) |
| February 19 |
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales Franklin's Prologue and Tale; Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale |
(see February 8 links) |
| February 22 | Shakespeare: As You Like It |
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| February 26 |
Montaigne: Essays To the Reader; I: 31 (Of Cannibals); II: 11 (Of Cruelty); III: 2 (Of Repentance) |
Complete Essays Texts (Books I-III)
Book I & II-Only Texts
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| February 29 |
Montaigne: Essays III: 13 (Of Experience) |
(see February 26 links) |
| March 18 | Machiavelli: The Prince |
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| March 21 |
Machiavelli: Discourses on Livy Introductory Letter; Book I: Preface, 1-28, 58 to end Book II: Preface, 1-5 |
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| March 25 | Shakespeare: Richard II |
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| March 28 | Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I |
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| April 1 | Shakespeare: Othello |
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| April 4 | Shakespeare: Hamlet |
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| April 8 |
Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion Book I: Chapters 1-6, 15 |
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| April 11 |
Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion Book II: Chapters 1, 2 (#12–27), 3 |
(see April 8 links) |
| April 15 | J. S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion |
Text
Score Recordings
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| April 18 |
Bacon: Novum Organum Preface Book I: Aphorisms 1-115 |
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| April 22 |
Bacon: Novum Organum Book I: Aphorisms 116-130 Book II: Aphorisms 1-20 |
(see April 18 links) |
| April 25 |
Descartes: Discourse on Method I-IV |
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| April 29 |
Descartes: Discourse on Method V-VI |
(see April 25 links) |
| May 2 | Shakespeare: Macbeth |
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| May 6 | Shakespeare: King Lear |
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| May 9 | Shakespeare: The Tempest |
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