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21H.306

The Emergence of Europe: 500-1300

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2003

Topics

  • Class Introduction: Rome, the Mediterranean, and the Meaning of Europe
  • The Shape of Late Antiquity and the Barbarian Invasions
  • The Emergence of New Cultures, 600-750
  • The Split Between East and West
  • The Papal-Frankish Alliance and other New Powers
  • Charlemagne’s Heirs and other Disasters
  • More Invasions and the (Feudal) Search for Peace
  • Anglo-Saxon England and Ottonian Germany
  • Mid-term Written Evaluation
  • Feudal Governments at Work
  • Feudal Society at Work
  • The Solidification of Institutions of Government
  • The Power and Splendor of Monarchs
  • The Structure and Place of the Gothic Cathedral
  • The End of the Synthesis: Plague, War and Schism
  • One Historian’s take on all that

Readings

  • Rosenwein, Barbara. A Short History of the Middle Ages ( SHMA ). Broadview Press, 2001, Chapter 1.
    Listed reading
  • Sources on the Germans. Andrea, Alfred. The Medieval Record ( TMR ) . Houghton Mifflin, 1997, pp. 41-53.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 4-5 · TOPICS: The Emergence of New Cultures, 600-750 · READINGS: A Short History of the Middle Ages. Chapter 2. Sources on Theodoric, Clovis, Anglo-Saxon England and the Rise of Islam. The Medieval Record. pp. 54-68, 87-94, and 122-27.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: The Split between East and West: (at least) Two Empires? · READINGS: Sources on Byzantium and Early Monasticism. The Medieval Record. pp. 73-80, and 99-118.
    Reading assignment
  • A Short History of the Middle Ages. Chapter 3.
    Listed reading
  • Sources on the Carolingian Renaissance and the Contemporaries of Charlemagne. The Medieval Record. pp. 83-86, 95-98, and 136-52.
    Listed reading
  • Sources. The Medieval Record. pp. 153-162.
    Listed reading
  • A Short History of the Middle Ages. Chapter 4.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 13 · TOPICS: More Invasions and the (Feudal) Search for Peace · READINGS: Sources on Viking Invasions (provided by Professor). The Medieval Record. pp. 165-176.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 14 · TOPICS: Anglo-Saxon England and Ottonian Germany · READINGS: The Medieval Record. pp. 176-185.
    Reading assignment
  • A Short History of the Middle Ages. Chapter 5.
    Listed reading
  • Sources on the Investiture Controversy and the Early Crusades. The Medieval Record. pp. 311-325, and 340-360
    Listed reading
  • Moore, R. I. “The 11th Century in Eurasian History.” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Vol 33, no. 1 (2003). [Professor will also provide selections from William, Ann and G.H. Martin, editors. Domesday Book . Penguin, 2003.]
    Listed reading
  • Sources on the New Economy. The Medieval Record. pp. 234-38, and 246-59.
    Listed reading
  • Sources on the New Learning. The Medieval Record. pp. 260-266, and 272-75.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 21 · TOPICS: The Solidification of Institutions of Government · READINGS: A Short History of the Middle Ages. Chapter 6.
    Reading assignment
  • Sources on Henry II and St. Louis. The Medieval Record. pp. 297-310, and 329-34.
    Listed reading
  • Sources on 13 th century Culture. The Medieval Record. pp. 280-282, and 289-94.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 24 · TOPICS: The Structure and Place of the Gothic Cathedral · READINGS: Mark, Robert. Light, Wind and Structure: The Mystery of the Master Builders. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994, Chapter 4.
    Reading assignment
  • A Short History of the Middle Ages. Chapters 7 and 8.
    Listed reading
  • Sources on Plague and 100 Years War. The Medieval Record. pp. 385-388, and 397-405.
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 28-29 · TOPICS: One Historian’s take on all that · READINGS: Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror. Ballantine Books, 1987.
    Reading assignment
Sources