In your own words, define “periodization”. How would it change our understanding of Thomas More’s Utopia (a Renaissance text) to ignore periodization, and read it as a text belonging to the medieval period?

For most questions 1-2 sentences should suffice to answer – these are designed to be short-answer questions, not essay questions!

 

  1. In your own words, define “periodization”. How would it change our understanding of Thomas More’s Utopia (a Renaissance text) to ignore periodization, and read it as a text belonging to the medieval period?

 

  1. At some points in his narrative Thomas More says he thinks that this other world Hythloday has discovered, Utopia, could serve as a model for Europe; at other points he distances himself from Utopian practices. Which do you actually think is true (does he want Europeans to emulate Utopia?), and why? Choose a specific moment in his text to support your answer.

 

  1. Consider the following image from Thomas Harriott, where the child (a young girl?) is branding some sort of European scientific instrument (probably an astrolabe) in one hand, and a tiny doll dressed in Elizabethan clothing in the other. Analyze why you think the illustrator has chosen to depict the child holding these two objects.

 

  1. Thomas More’s Utopia depicts an imaginary new “world,” while Hariott’s True Description depicts a real one. But please consider them together from the perspective of style, or of how they are written. Stylistically, what is something they share in common? Stylistically, what is one significant difference between them (and why do you think it is significant)? The more specific you can be the better!

 

  1. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” compares his beloved to an entire world, and asserts that because she is a whole world, “both th’Indias of spice and mine […] lie here with me.” What does he mean by “both the Indias” (what would we call each “India” today?)? What other place in the poem shows him thinking about his beloved in potentially colonial terms?

 

  1. How does Margaret Cavendish’s “Of Stars” invoke the “th’East Indies” in order to make a broader argument about knowledge? Imagine that “Of Stars” is an argumentative paper; if you had to write a thesis statement summarizing the argument of Cavendish’s poem, what would that thesis statement be (what is the argument of the poem)?

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