SCHEDULE FOR SPRING 2000

Week 1 (January 10): Introduction

Week 2 (January 17): Martin Luther King Day (NO CLASS)
        Individual Conferences with Professor, week of January 17-21; come prepared with interests and/or a paper topic

Week 3 (Jan. 24): Knightly Society - An Overview
        Readings:
                Bouchard, Strong of Body, Brave and Noble, entire

Week 4 (January 31): Knightly Society from Narrative and Legal Sources
        Readings:
                Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History, vol. 4, 135-163, 179-229 [handout]
                Domesday Book, selections [handout]
                Law codes, selections [handout]
        Assignment: Research Assignment # 1 Due (Project Description)

Week 5 (February 7): MEET in CITI in Library: Research methods with Kathy Crowe
        Discussion Topic: Knightly Society from Charters
        Readings:
                Evergates, ed., Feudal Society in Medieval France, pp. 1-18, 37-62, 74-82, 91-95, 108-122, 123-144

Week 6 (Feb. 14): Knightly Society from Literature
        Readings:
                Chretien de Troyes, Yvain, or the Knight of the Lion, entire
        Assignment: Research Assignment #2 Due (preliminary bibliography)

Week 7 (Feb. 21): Writing the History of Knightly Society
        Readings:
                Crouch, William Marshal, entire
        Assignment: Research Assignment #3 Due (Critical Review of Crouch [2 pp maximum])

February 28-March 3: SPRING BREAK [DO RESEARCH!!]

Week 8 (March 6): Literature Discussions
        Assignment: Research Assignment #4 Due (Literature Discussion)

Week 9 (March 13): Bibliography
        Assignment: Research Assignment #5 Due (Bibliography)

Week 10 (March 20): Arguments and Outlines
        Assignment: Research Assignment #6 Due (Argument and outline)
        In class: presentation of individual arguments; discussion of same; suggestions

Week 11 (March 27): Citation
        In class: footnoting techniques

Week 12 (April 3): Individual conferences with Professor, 10 minutes per person during class

Week 13 (April 10): First Drafts Due, in class

Week 14 (April 17): Oral Reports I:

Week 15 (April 24): Oral Reports II:

Week 16 (May 1): No class

PAPERS DUE: THURSDAY, MAY 4, at noon.

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