Schedule of Classes and Readings
Schedule of Classes and Readings
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND READINGS FOR SPRING 2002
IMPT NOTE: The schedules for His221-01 and His221-02 are almost identical.
All units, topics, and readings are the same for both courses. The only
difference will come in assignment dates. Make sure to read the on-line
syllabus carefully to make sure you follow the correct set of due-dates.
Introduction
January 15: Course Introduction: Historians and Their Method
January 17: How to Read a Primary Source/the Middle Ages - a Quick
Chronological Sketch/ Periodization
Primary Source Readings:
A Medieval Document
(Handout)
Other Readings: Paul
Halsall’s “What
Happened in the Middle Ages?”
Unit 1: Kingship and Politics
January 22: Monarchy: William the Conqueror and Henry I
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 156-160,
248-252
Primary Source Reading
William
of Malmesbury on the Battle of Hastings
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1066malmesbury.html)
Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle Assesses William the Conqueror and Notes Domesday Book’s Creation
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1186ASChron-Domesday.html)
Domesday
Book (Instructions and Sample Entry)
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/domesday1.html)
Orderic
Vitalis on Henry I
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/orderic.html
January 24: Angevin England: Henry II and John
Textbook Reading:
Hollister:
253-257
Primary Source Readings:
Peter
of Blois, Description of Henry II
[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1177peterblois-hen2.html]
Magna
Carta
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/magnacarta.html)
Secondary Source Reading:
C.W. Hollister and John W. Baldwin, "The Rise of Administrative Kingship:
Henry I and Philip Augustus," American Historical Review
83 (1978): first part (on Henry I)
January 29: King Philip II Augustus of France
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 261-265
Primary Source Reading:
Joinville, Life of Saint Louis, first third, in Chronicles of
the Crusades, 163-240
Secondary Source Reading:
C.W. Hollister and John W. Baldwin, "The Rise of Administrative Kingship:
Henry I and Philip Augustus," American Historical Review
83 (1978): second part (on Philip Augustus)
January 31: German Emperors: Frederick Barbarossa and Frederick II Stupor
Mundi
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 235-238,
242-243
Primary Source Readings:
Joinville, Life of Saint Louis, 2nd third, in Chronicles of the
Crusades, 240-305
February 5: Saint Louis (King Louis IX of France)
Textbook Readings:
Hollister, 265-269
Primary Source Readings:
Joinville, Life
of Saint Louis, 3rd part, in Chronicles of the Crusades, 306-353
February 7: Edward I and Edward III of England
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 257-261,
336-338, 341-342
Primary Source Readings:
Summonses
to Parliament, 1295
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ed1-summons.html)
Thomas of Walsingham: the Good Parliament of 1376
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1376goodparliament.html)
February 8 (Friday): FIRST ESSAY DUE [due-date applies to both sections of 221]
Unit 2: Religious Beliefs
February 12: The Terminology of the Church: Bishops, Priests, Canons,
Monks, and Saints
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 206-210
February 14: Creeds, Dogmas, Sacraments and the Penitential System
Secondary Source Reading
Reserve Room: Lester K. Little, "Pride Comes Before Avarice: Social Change
and the Vices in Latin Christendom,"
American Historical Review, v. 76 (1971), 16-49.
Primary Source Reading
The
Nicene Creed (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/church-fathers.htm)
St
Vincent of Lerins Defines Orthodoxy (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/church-fathers.htm)
Doctrinal
Definitions of the Sacraments
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1438sacraments.html)
Tales
of Confession
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tales-confession.html)
February 19: Saints and Miracles
Textbook Reading:
Primary Source Reading:
Miracles of St. Foi (handout)
Guibert
of Nogent: on Relics
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/nogent-relics.html)
Tales
of Relics
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tales-relics.html)
February 21: the Regular Life: Benedictine Monks and Franciscan Friars
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 65-69,
210-214, 216-224
Secondary Source Reading:
Reserve Room:
Barbara H. Rosenwein and Lester K. Little, "Social Meaning in the Monastic
and Mendicant Spiritualities,"
Past and Present, 63 (1974): 4-32.
Primary Source Readings:
Rule
of St Benedict (Selections)
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rul-benedict.html)
Thomas
of Celano’s Lives of St Francis
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/stfran-lives.html)
4. Unit 3: Religious Institutions
February 26: Papacy: to 1110
Textbook Reading:
Hollister,
225-234
Primary Source Reading:
Gelasian
Doctrine
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gelasius1.html)
Dictatus
Papae
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-dictpap.html)
Letters of Gregory
VII and Henry IV
Ban on
Lay Investitures (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-invest1.html)
Henry
IV to Gregory VII (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/henry4-to-g7a.html)
Gregory Deposes
Henry IV (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-ban1.html)
February 28: Innocent III and Universal Christendom
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 235-244
Primary Source Readings:
Innocent
III: Policies and Relations with Kings
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/innIII-policies.html)
Selections
from the Fourth Lateran Council
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lat4-select.html)
March 5: the Papacy in Action: Law and Doctrine in the 12th Century
Primary Source Readings:
The
Papacy Judges Matters of Marriage and Sexuality
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/innIII-marriagewomen.html)
Gratian
on Marriage
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gratian1.html)
March 7: the Failure of the Papal Model
Textbook Readings:
Hollister, 244-247
Primary Source Readings:
Boniface
VIII: the bull Clericos Laicos
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-clericos.html)
Boniface
VIII: the bull Unam Sanctam
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-unam.html)
Boniface
VIII: Outrage at Anagni
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1303anagni.html)
March 8 (Friday): SECOND ESSAY DUE (this due-date is valid for both sections)
March 12-14: SPRING VACATION
Unit 4: Towns and Urban Life
March 19: Economic Expansion and the Rise of Towns
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 161-166
Primary Source Reading:
The
Beauvais Dossier (only read the Introduction and Documents A, B and
C)
(http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/beauvaisdossier.htm)
March 20: last day to drop without penalty
March 21: Fairs, Guilds and Urban Life
Textbook Reading:
Hollister 166-172
Primary Source Reading:
Grant
of Fairs at Aachen, 1166
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1166aachenfair.html)
Regulations
of Weavers’ Guild of Stendal, 1233
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1233Weavers4.html)
Regulations
on the Manufacture and Sale of Cloth, 1244
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1244douai.html)
Unit 5: Lordship and Social Order
March 26: the Origins of Lordship
Textbook Reading
Hollister, 119-138
Primary Source Reading
Fulbert
of Chartres: Letter concerning obligations of lord and vassal
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulbert1.html)
Agreement
Between Hugh of Lusignan and William of Aquitaine
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/agreement.html)
Secondary Sources:
Article on Lordship
March 28: Lords and Vassals: Hugh of Lusignan, King John, Roland and
Ganelon
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 172-182
Primary Source Readings:
Song of Roland,
1st half
April 2: Lords and Peasants
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 138-143,
182-188
Primary Source Reading
Texts
on Peasant Life (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/peasant-life.htm)
Texts
on Peasant Servitude (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/peasant-servitude.html)
April 4: the Trial of Ganelon
Primary Source Readings:
Song of Roland,
2nd half
April 5 (Friday): THIRD ESSAY DUE (this due-date is valid for both sections)
Unit 6: Women and Gender
April 9: Gender and Women’s Roles in Medieval Europe
Secondary Source Reading:
On gender as
a concept
April 11: Noblewomen in the 11th and 12th Centuries
Textbook Reading:
Hollister, 177-181
(review)
Primary Source Readings:
Women
of the Norman Aristocracy (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/normanwomen.htm)
A
Letter to Eleanor of Aquitaine (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/eleanor.html)
April 16: Female Mystics: St Catherine of Siena
Primary Source Readings:
A
Letter from St Catherine (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/cathsienaletter.htm)
Secondary Source Reading:
Caroline Walker
Bynum, “Fast, Feast and Flesh: the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval
Women,” in Representations 11 (1985), 1-25.
April 18: Joan of Arc
Textbook Reading
Hollister, 336-342
Primary Source Readings:
The
Life and Trial of Joan of Arc (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/joanofarc.htm)
Unit 7: Chivalry and Romance
April 23: the World of the Epics and Romances
Primary Source Readings:
Erec and
Enide, 1st 1/4
April 25: First Draft of Final Essay Due (for History 221-02
only)
April 25: Chivalry
Secondary Source Reading:
Constance B.
Bouchard, “Nobility and Chivalry” in her Strong of Body, Brave and Noble:
Chivalry and Society in Medieval France
(Cornell U.P., 1998), pp. 103-144.
Primary Source Reading:
Erec and
Enide, 2nd 1/4
April 30: Reality and Fiction in the Romances
Primary Source Reading:
Erec and Enide,
3rd 1/4
Excerpt from
The History of William Marshal (in Amt, Medieval England, pp. 190-198)
May 2: Discussion:
Primary Source Readings:
Erec and Enide:
last 1/4
May 7: FINAL ESSAY DUE (this due-date applies for both classes; for
221-01 it is the first and only due-date for the final paper; for 221-02
it is the due-date for the revised version of the final paper)
May 7 (Tuesday): NO CLASS (this day is considered to be a Friday for
scheduling purposes)