Schedule of Classes and Readings
Schedule of Classes and Readings
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND READINGS FOR SPRING 2003
Note: Primary source readings are preceded in the following syllabus
by one of these three adjectives:
Required: you must read that text and
will be held responsible for it on exams
Recommended: I’d love for you to read
it, but won’t test you specifically on it. Use of it on exams will impress
me.
Optional: this text will help your
comprehension of the daily topic, but won’t be on the exams
UNIT 1: Introduction
January 13: Course Introduction: Historians and Their Method
January 15: Reading a Primary Source
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Handout: A Medieval Document
January 17: Roman Government and Culture
Primary Source Readings:
Required: On the powers of the Emperor (http://129.186.40.170/THOMAS/netscape/lex.htm)
Required: Late Roman laws on marriage: please only scan a few entries in
this long file - DON’T read it all! We’re only interested here in the form
of
Roman law and in the breadth of imperial power, not in the specifics of
Roman marriage law.
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cjc-marriage.html)
Textbook Readings: Hollister/Bennett,
1-16
January 20: NO CLASS (Martin Luther King Day)
January 22: Rise of Christianity and the Christian Roman Empire
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Letter of Pliny to Emp. Trajan (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pliny1.html)
Required: Excerpts from Theodosian Code (5th century, not 4th, as the on-line
text asserts)
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/codex-theod1.html)
Required: Humiliation of Theodosius (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/theodoret-ambrose1.html)
Optional: Excerpts from the martyrdom of Perpetua (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/perpetua-excerp.html)
Textbook Readings: Hollister/Bennett,
17-30
January 24: Germanic Society
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Tacitus, excerpts from Germania (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus-germania-excerp.html)
Textbook Reading: Hollister/Bennett,
35-40
January 27: Germanic Migrations
January 29: Fall of the Roman Empire
January 31: Successors to Rome: Byzantium and Islam
Primary Source Readings
for entire week:
Required: Jordanes on Theodoric the Ostrogoth: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/jordanes-theodoric1.html
Required: Letters of Theodoric (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/theodoric1.html)
Recommended: Salvian, on Roman decline (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/salvian1.html)
Textbook Readings: 31-35,
41-45, 49-55, 86-93
UNIT 2: Early Middle Ages
February 3: The Franks: Clovis and Kingship
Primary Sources:
Required: Clovis Stories: the Vase of Soissons and his Conversion (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gregtours1.html)
Required: Conversion of Clovis (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/496clovis.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 45,
47-48, 65-74
February 5: The Franks: law and order
Primary Sources:
Required: Salic Law (ie., Law of Salian Franks) (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/salic-law.html)
Optional: Ordeal Formulae: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ordeals1.html
Optional: 11th-century Judicial Duels: http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/judicialduels.htm
Optional: An 11th-century ordeal: http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/ordeals.htm
February 7: Monasticism: rule of Saint Benedict
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Rule of Saint Benedict (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rul-benedict.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 74-78
February 10: Early Medieval Belief: Saints, Miracles, Sacraments
Primary Source Readings:
Required: The Nicene Creed (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/church-fathers.htm)
Required: the Life of St Eligius (read only these chapters: 1-10, 15-18,
21, 27, 30)
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/eligius.html)
Textbook Reading: 78-82
February 12: Women in Frankish Society
Primary Sources:
Required: Frankish Queens: http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/frankish-queens.htm
Textbook Reading: H/B, 46-47
February 14: Coming of the Anglo-Saxons, c.400-700
Textbook Reading: H/B, 82-85
February 17: The Carolingian Franks: Charlemagne and the revival of
Government
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Einhard on Charlemagne’s Wars (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/einhard-wars1.html)
Required: General capitulary on the missi, 802 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/carol-missi1.html)
Recommended: Summons to military service (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/carol-sum1.html)
Recommended: Einhard on Charlemagne’s personality (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/einhard1.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 102-117
February 19: Carolingian Renaissance
Primary Source Reading:
Required: Charlemagne’s letter to Baugulf (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/carol-baugulf.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 117-123
February 21: Viking Assaults
Secondary Source Readings
(for next week, but get started this week)
Alfred the Great, pp. 1-48, plus maps and genealogies pp. 59-63
Textbook Reading: H/B, 125-134
February 24: Alfred the Great
February 26: Alfred’s Legacy
February 28: Responses to the Invasions: Centralization and Decentralization
[this lecture not on midterm]
Primary Source Readings
for week:
Alfred the Great, pp. 65-120, 163-186, 189-191, 193-194
Textbook Reading: H/B, 134-140
UNIT 3: the High Middle Ages
March 3: FIRST MIDTERM EXAM
March 5: Economic Take-off
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Evergates, no. 16 (rights for a new village)
Optional: Evergates, no. 74 (quashing a new village)
Textbook Reading: 155-159,
160-166, 171-176
March 7: Peasantry and Lordship
Primary Source Readings:
Required: a lord’s rights over villagers, Evergates, no. 75
Required: Texts on Peasant Life (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/peasant-life.htm)
Textbook Reading: 163-171
March 10: SPRING BREAK
March 12: SPRING BREAK
March 14: SPRING BREAK
March 17: Aristocratic Society: Fiefs and Power Relationships
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Fulbert of Chartres: Letter concerning obligations of lord and
vassal
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulbert1.html)
Required: Agreement Between Hugh of Lusignan and William of Aquitaine
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/agreement.html)
Required: Evergates, nos. 2-7, 15 (on fiefs); no. 55 (on homage); no. 77
(on justice)
Textbook Reading: 141-145
March 19 (LAST DAY TO DROP WITHOUT PENALTY): Aristocratic Society:
Women’s Roles
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Women of Norman Aristocracy (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/normanwomen.htm)
Required: Evergates, document nos. 35, 37, 38, 39, 41
March 21: Aristocratic Society: Values and Culture [chivalry, vengeance,
etc]
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Handout: Excerpt from The History of William Marshal (in
Amt, Medieval England, pp. 190-198)
Optional: Froissart, 309-315, 373-381 [later evidence of chivalric behavior]
Textbook Reading: 144-145,
182-187, 294-301
March 24: Crusading
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Capture of Jerusalem (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulk2.html)
Required: on the impact of crusading: Evergates, documents #: 86-90, 94,
95
Recommended: on the Templars: Evergates, document #78-79
Textbook Reading: 217-219,
227-237
March 26: Religious Reform
Primary Source Reading:
Required: Gelasian Doctrine (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gelasius1.html)
Required: Dictatus Papae (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-dictpap.html)
Textbook Reading:
H/B, 188-203
March 28: Rise of the Papacy
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Ban on Lay Investitures (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-invest1.html)
Required: Henry IV to Gregory VII (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/henry4-to-g7a.html)
Required: Gregory Deposes Henry IV (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-ban1.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 203-210,
215-216, 242-248
March 31: Law and Society
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Gratian on Marriage (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gratian1.html)
Textbook Reading: 248-261
April 2: Marriage (Abelard and Heloise)
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Letters of Abelard and Heloise, 57-106
Recommended (Highly): Evergates, documents 25, 26, 28, and 32
April 4: Scholasticism: Anselm, Abelard and Aquinas
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Letters of Abelard and Heloise, pp. 109-118
Recommended: Aquinas, from Summa Theologica; proof of existence of God
[read only prologue and Question 2
of the following] (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/aquinas1.html)
Optional: Abelard, from Sic et non (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1120abelard.html)
Textbook: 308-321
April 7: Towns and Town Life
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Evergates, no. 18 (communal franchises, 1230)
Required: Evergates, no. 20-24 (on Fairs)
Optional: a communal revolt, Chartres 1210 (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/chartresriot.htm)
Optional: a lengthy account of a communal revolt, Beauvais (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/beauvaisdossier.htm)
Textbook Reading: H/B/,
176-182
April 9: New Religious Orders
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Thomas of Celano’s Lives of St Francis (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/stfran-lives.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 210-215
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.
April 11: Film: Siena
April 14: Administrative Kingship
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Assize of Clarendon: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/aclarendon.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)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 268-279
April 16: Towards National Monarchies: England and France
Primary Source Reading:
Required: Magna Carta (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/magnacarta.html)
Textbook Reading: 280-289
April 18: NO CLASS (Spring Holiday)
UNIT 4: Later Middle Ages
April 21: SECOND MIDTERM EXAMINATION and the Bubonic Plague
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Froissart, 111-112
Recommended: Boccaccio’s description of the plague (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio2.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 323-335
April 23: War
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Froissart, 120-146
Textbook Reading: H/B, 335-336,
346-349
April 25: Urban Unrest
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Froissart, 146-148, 151-161, 231-241
April 28: Religious Ferment
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Boniface VIII: the bull Unam Sanctam (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-unam.html)
Required: Froissart, 201-210 (Avignon and Schism)
Optional: Evergates, document #100 (on heretics)
Optional: Boniface VIII: Outrage at Anagni (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1303anagni.html)
Textbook Reading: 336-345
April 30: Peasant Unrest
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Froissart, 211-230 [also review 151-155]
May 2: Governmental Solutions: England
Primary Source Readings
Optional: Froissart, 316-327 [background to what follows]
Required: Froissart, 421-471 [deposition of Richard I]
Recommended: Growth of Parliamentary Government in England (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/english-parliament.htm)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 349-353
May 5: Governmental Solutions: France
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Evergates, no. 64 (on royal encroachment)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 353-356
May 6: (class meets on Tuesday, per University instructions): Late
Medieval Heroines
Primary Source Readings:
Required: The Life and Trial of Joan of Arc (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/joanofarc.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.
Textbook Reading: H/B, 350-351
May 7: READING DAY (no classes)