HISTORY 511B: Seminar on the Medieval Aristocracy
 

Course Requirements



REQUIRED BOOKS:

Constance B. Bouchard, Strong of Body, Brave and Noble: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France (Cornell University
                Press, 1998). ISBN: 0-8014-8548-7
David Crouch, William Marshal: Court, Career, and Chivalry in the Angevin Empire, 1147- 1219 (Longman, 1990).
                ISBN: 0-582-03786-7
Feudal Society in Medieval France, ed. Theodore Evergates (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).
                ISBN: 0-8122-1441-2
Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain: the Knight of the Lion, trans. Burton Raffel (Yale Univ. Press, 1987).   ISBN: 0300038380
Handouts will also be distributed as necessary.

GRADE BREAKDOWN:
        Participation                   10%
        Research Exercises         20%
        Oral Reports                  10%
        Final Paper                     60%

ASSIGNMENTS
N.B.: I will provide links to each of the following as soon as I prepare the appropriate handouts ....
1. Research Exercise #1: Project Description (January 31)
2. Research Exercise #2: Preliminary bibliography (February 14)
3. Research Exercise #3: Critical Review of Crouch (February 21)
4. Research Exercise #4: Literature Discussion (March 6)
5. Research Exercise #5: Bibliography (March 13)
6. Research Exercise #6: Argument paragraph and Outline of paper (March 20)
5. First Draft (April 10)
6. Final Draft May 4)


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