Dr. Richard Barton TR 9:00-10:45  Room: McIver 225

Office: 212 McIver Office phone: 334-5203 Office Hours: TR 11:00-12:00

Course Description

Requirements (books, assignments)

How to Read Primary Sources

Schedule of Classes and Readings

Reading Guides and Homework Assignments
           Reading Guide Week 8: Vikings/Lordship (click here)
            Reading Guide Week 9: Monks and Laymen/Rise of the Papacy (click here)
            Reading Guide Week 10, part a: Papal Monarchy in the Early 13th Century (click here)
            Reading Guide Week 10, part b: the Rise of Towns (click here)
            Reading Guide Week 11: the First Crusade (click here)
            Reading Guide Week 12: Abelard and Heloise/Administrative Kingship (click here)
            Reading Guide Week 13 and 14: Erec and Enide (click here)
            Reading Guide Week 14, part b: St Francis of Assisi and St Clare of Assisi (click here)

            Beowulf Homework Assignment (due Feb. 3) (click here)
            Homework Assignment on charters (due March 14) (click here)
            Homework on medieval towns (due March 28) (click here)
            Homework on Abelard and Heloise (due April 4) (click here)
            Homework on Erec and Enide (due April 13) (click here)

Updates and Recent Information:
            IMPORTANT: Revised Schedule of Readings, Feb. 1 to Feb. 24 (click here)
                Readings for March 9 (Peasant Life in Feudal Society) (click here)
                Readings for March 23 (the Rise of Towns) (click here)
                Reading for April 6 (Assize of Clarendon) (click here)
                Reading for April 25 (Development of Parliament in England) (click here)
               IMPORTANT: Paper Assignment (due April 20) (click here)

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