May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Topic for Fall 2018: Literature of the European Renaissance: Controlled Chaos. Cultural reconstructions of class, gender, sexuality, religion, and race as reflected in sixteenth-century European literature, with supplementary attention to the period's visual arts. Authors include More, Erasmus, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Rabelais, Bartolome, Teresa of Avila, Vasari, Montaigne, Franco, Marlowe, and Fonte.