F, 1/12: Course Introduction

M, 1/15: No Classes
W, 1/17: More Introduction
Bring blank floppy disk to class

Early Background on Heaven and Hell: The Bible and Other Texts
F, 1/19: Genesis, chapters 1-11

M, 1/22: Fall of the Angels (no reading)
Basic Cosmography and Mapping
W, 1/24: Revelation, chapters 1-22
Read Russell, chapters 1-4
F, 1/26: Qu'ran 98:1-8 (on disk: "Misc Texts"; double-click on file and it will open in a web browser)
1 Enoch 17-36 (on disk: "Misc Texts")
2 Baruch 59:4-11 (on disk: "Misc Texts")
Read McDannell and Lang, chapters 1, 2, 3

M, 1/29: The Patristic Tradition
Read McDannell and Lang, chapter 4
Read Russell, chapter 9

Thomas Aquinas (on disk: "Thomas Aquinas")
W, 1/31: Questions 69-73
F, 2/2: Questions 75-86

M, 2/5: Questions 87-89
Paper 1:
W, 2/7: Questions 91-99
F, 2/9: Appendices
Paper 2:

Church Architecture Reflecting Eschatological Theology
M, 2/12: Cathedral at St. Denis
(Paper 3):

Dante, The Inferno (make good use of the editorial notes)
W, 2/14: Cantos 1-4
Read Russell, chapter 8
F, 2/16: Cantos 5-10
Paper 4:

M, 2/19: No Classes
W, 2/21: Cantos 11-16
F, 2/23: Cantos 17-24
Paper 5:

M, 2/26: Cantos 25-30
W, 2/28: Cantos 31-34
Paper 6:

Medieval Drama (texts are on reserve in the binder)
F, 3/2: Creation and Fall of Man Play
Last Judgment Play
"Short" Paper #1 Due

M, 3/5-3/9: No Classes: Spring Break

John Milton, Paradise Lost (make good use of the editorial notes)
M, 3/12: Milton, PL 1
Read McDannell and Lang, chapters 5 and 6
W, 3/14: Milton, PL 3
Paper 7:
F, 3/16: Milton, PL 3

M, 3/19: Milton, PL 4
Paper 8:
W, 3/21: Milton, PL 5-7
F, 3/23: Milton, PL 8-9
Paper 9:

M, 3/26: Milton, PL 10-11
W, 3/28: Milton, PL 12

Goethe, Faust
F, 3/30: Goethe, Faust
Read McDannell and Lang, chapters 7 and 8

M, 4/2: Goethe, Faust
W, 4/4: Goethe, Faust
Paper 10:
F, 4/6: Goethe, Faust
Paper 11:

Jane Cish (text is on reserve in the binder)
M, 4/9: The Vision and Wonderful Experience of Jane Cish

Modernism: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
W, 4/11: T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (please read the text on the Internet, accessible from the links page; if you have a copy of The Waste Land (perhaps in the Norton Anthology), please use that
Paper 12:
F, 4/13: No Classes

M, 4/16: No Classes
W, 4/18: Twentieth-Century/Post-Modern Hell: War and Suffering
Read Russell, chapters 14,15,16
Read McDannell and Lang, chapter 10
Paper 13:

F, 4/20: Open Class

George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
M, 4/23: George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
W, 4/25: Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Paper 14:
F, 4/27: Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
"Short" Paper #2 Due

James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter
M, 4/30: James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter
W, 5/2: Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter
F, 5/4: Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter
Last Class
All rewrites due by today