Schedule of Classes and Readings
Schedule of Classes and Readings
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES AND READINGS FOR SPRING 2004
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: Roman Empire and Its Fall
Primary Source Readings:
Required: How to Read Primary
Sources
(http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/221-fa01-primary-source.html)
Required: Salvian,
on Roman decline
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/salvian1.html)
Textbook Readings: Hollister/Bennett, 1-16,
31-35, 41-45, 49-55, 86-93
January 20: The Christian Bridge …
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: Excerpts from the martyrdom of Perpetua
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/perpetua-excerp.html)
Optional: Humiliation of Theodosius
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/theodoret-ambrose1.html)
Textbook Readings: Hollister/Bennett, 17-30
January 22: Germanic Successor States
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Tacitus, excerpts from Germania
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus-germania-excerp.html)
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)
Textbook Reading: Hollister/Bennett, 35-40
UNIT 2: Early Middle Ages
January 27: 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
January 29: 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 3: 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 Martin (ideally read it all, but focus on chapters:
1-5, 7, 9-14, 16, 20-27)
(http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/npnf2-11/sulpitiu/lifeofst.html#tp)
(also accessible through: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html#west1
[click on the link to the Life of St Martin of Tours)
February 5: Women in Frankish Society
(First Essay Due in class)
Primary Sources:
Required: Frankish Queens: http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/frankish-queens.htm
Textbook Reading: H/B, 46-47
Textbook Reading: 78-82
February 10: 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 12: Coming of the Anglo-Saxons, c.400-700
Textbook Reading: H/B, 82-85
February 17: The Carolingian Franks: Charlemagne and the Carolingian
Renaissance
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Einhard, Life of Charlemagne
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/einhard.html)
Recommended: Summons to military service
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/carol-sum1.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 102-123
February 19: Viking Assaults
Textbook Reading: H/B, 125-134
Optional Reading: Alfred the Great, pp. 1-48,
plus maps and genealogies pp. 59-63 (this will help make
sense of the next reading; but remember it cannot substitute for a close
reading of the actual text)
February 24: Alfred the Great
Primary Source Readings for week:
Alfred the Great, pp. 65-120, 163-186, 189-191, 193-194
Textbook Reading: H/B, 134-140
February 26: Alfred’s Heirs
(Second Essay Due in class)
UNIT 3: the High Middle Ages
March 2: Economic Revival: Agricultural and Urban Renewal
Primary Sources:
Required: Demographic Tables (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pop-in-eur.html)
Required: Handout: Assarting
Required: Beauvais Dossier (read only Introduction and Documents A and
B)
(http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/beauvaisdossier.htm)
March 4: Aristocratic Power: Lords, Castles, and Fiefs
Primary Source Reading:
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: Norman Noblewomen
(http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/normanwomen.htm)
Textbook Reading: 141-145, 155-159, 160-166,
171-176
March 9-11: NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK
March 16: Rise of Papacy
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Gelasian Doctrine (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gelasius1.html)
Required: Dictatus Papae (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-dictpap.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, 188-210, 215-216, 242-248
March 18: Revival of Kingship, c.1100
Primary Source Reading:
Required: Assize of Clarendon: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/aclarendon.html
March 23: Crusading
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Capture of Jerusalem (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulk2.html)
Textbook Reading: 217-219, 227-237
March 25: Law and Society: Courts and Marriage
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Gratian on Marriage (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gratian1.html)
Textbook Reading: 248-261
March 30: Twelfth Century Renaissance: Abelard and Heloise
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Letters of Abelard and Heloise, 57-106
Textbook: H/B: 308-321
April 1: Peasantry and Lordship
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Texts on Peasant Life (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/peasant-life.htm)
Required: Chretien de Troyes, Lancelot, or the Knight of the Cart,
first 1/4 (roughly lines 1-1750)
Textbook Reading: 163-171
April 6: Kingship Restored, c.1200
Primary Source Reading:
Required: Magna Carta (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/magnacarta.html)
Required: Chretien de Troyes, Lancelot, second 1/4 (roughly lines
1751-3600)
Textbook Reading: 280-289
April 8: Chivalry: Ideal and Reality
(Third Essay due in class)
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Excerpt from the History of William Marshal (handout)
Required: Chretien de Troyes, Lancelot, third 1/4 (roughly lines
3601-5400)
April 13: Discussion: Chretien’s Lancelot
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Chretien
de Troyes, Lancelot, last 1/4 (roughly lines 5400-end, plus afterword)
UNIT 4: Late Middle Ages
April 15: War and the Bubonic Plague
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Froissart, Chronicles, 111-112, 120-146
Recommended: Boccaccio’s description of the plague
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio2.html)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 323-336, 345-349
April 20: Social Unrest
Primary Source Readings:
Required: Froissart, 146-148, 151-161, 211-241
April 22: 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: Boniface VIII: Outrage at Anagni
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1303anagni.html)
Textbook Reading: 336-345
April 27: 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, 349-356
April 29: Late Medieval Heroines
Primary Source Readings:
Required: The Life and Trial of Joan of Arc (http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/joanofarc.htm)
Textbook Reading: H/B, 350-351
May 6 (Thursday): FINAL EXAM