SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS History 103 INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDIEVAL WORLD "Medieval history is always slowly turning into romance" Dr. Melinda Zook Phone: 494-4134 Spring 2013 Email: mzook@purdue.edu MWF 9:30 10:20 Office: University Hall 327 MATH 175 Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 or by appointment Graduate Teaching Assistants: Zach Schulz, Office: REC 421. Office hours: Wednesdays, 9:45-10:45am and Thursdays, 2:00-3:00pm, or by appointment. Email: zschulz@purdue.edu John Kennedy, Office: REC 409. Office hours: Mondays 12:00-1:00pm and Tuesdays 4:30-5:30pm. Email: kenned15@purdue.edu Matthew Schownir, REC 422. Office hours: Mondays & Fridays, 10:30-11:30am. Email: mschowni@purdue.edu This course is an overview of medieval history from the fall of the Roman Empire to the birth of Renaissance Europe. We explore political, religious, and social changes as well as economic, technological, and cultural developments. We seek to understand the complexity of the medieval past, including an awareness of the roles that men and women played, how they understood their world and how they interacted with it and each other. Required Texts: Judith Bennett, Medieval Europe: A Short History 11 th edition (McGraw, 2011) The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics, 1990) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics, 2006) The Lais of Marie de France (Penguin Classics, 2003) Requirements: Students will write two short analytical essays (3 to 4 pages) which will be based on the assigned readings. The essays will answer questions handed out in class and must be turned 1
in on the day they are due in class. Late papers will be penalized. No papers will be accepted via email. Students will also take three in-class essay exams which will be based on the lectures and the textbook. In-class quizzes will be administered approximately every third or fourth lecture and will be based on the lectures and readings. Missed quizzes cannot be made up. A variety of extra-credit assignments will be made available throughout the semester for those students who are eager to improve their grade. Extra-credit assignment points can only be used to improve your quiz grade. Grading: Final grades will be based on the papers, exams, quizzes, class attendance and participation. The grade will be calculated as follows: Quizzes & Participation 10% Essay 1 15% Essay 2 20% Midterm Exam 1 15% Midterm Exam 2 20% Final Exam 20% Rules of the Game: Attendance to all class meetings is mandatory. Be on time: walking in late is rude. If you are late, however, I would rather you came in than missed class. Simply do not make a habit of it. Turn off all phones and electronic gadgets. Phones that ring during class will be confiscated. Anyone caught texting will be escorted out of the class. Laptops and i-pads are not allowed without my permission. Understand that plagiarism or cheating of any kind will result in a failing grade for the entire course and that the Dean of Students Office will be informed. The penalty for plagiarism at Purdue University is suspension. Students must use proper email etiquette when emailing myself or the TAs (an email should begin with a salutation such as Dear Professor Zook and end with a proper closing, such as Sincerely or Yours. ). SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS: January 7 Introduction to the Course 2
January 9-11 The Birth & Spread of Christianity Read Chapter 1 in Medieval Europe, pages 4-19 January 14-16-18 The Glory That Was Rome Read Chapter 1, pages 5-27 January 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day No Class January 23-25 Sailing to Byzantium Read Chapter 3, pages 51-65 January 28-30 Monks & Missionaries Read Chapter 2 February 1-4 Barbarian Nations Read Chapter 1, pages 19-25; Chapter 4, pages 80-101; Chapter 5, pages 114-116 February 6 First Exam February 8 The World of Charlemagne February 11-13 Islam & Islamic Civilization Read Chapter 3, pages 65-79 February 15 The Feudal World Read Chapter 6, pages 162-66 February 18 Feudalism in Action 3
Read Chapter 4, pages 115-116; Chapter 10, pages 248-252 February 20-22 The Crusades Read Chapter 9 February 25 Knighthood, Chivalry, and The Song of Roland Read Chapter 5, pages 118-120; Chapter 6, pages 162-3 First Paper Option due February 27 The Agrarian Revolution Read Chapter 6, pages 131-50 March 1 The Commercial Revolution & City Life Read Chapter 6, pages 141-56 March 4-6 The Rise of the Universities Read Chapter 11, pages 273-81 March 8 World of the Peasantry Read Chapter 4, pages 144-50 March 11-15 Spring Break No Classes March 18-20 Conflict Between Church & State: In 3 Dramatic Acts Read Chapter 7, pages 167-77 Read Chapter 10, pages 251-54 Read Chapter 7, pages 183-87; Chapter 10, pages 243-44 March 22 Second Exam March 25 The Church at Its Height Read Chapter 8, pages 205-10 4
March 27-29 Women in Medieval Europe: A Golden Age for Women? Read Chapter 6, pages 156-60 Read Chapter 12, pages 316-21 Context & Discussion of The Lais of Marie de France April 1-3 Heresy, Witchcraft & Minority Groups Read Chapter 8, pages 197-99 Second Paper Option due 4/3 April 5 The Troubadours and King Arthur s Court Context & Discussion of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight April 8-10 Late Medieval Kingship in France & England Read Chapter 10 Third Paper Option due 4/10 April 12 Henry V & Agincourt Chapter 13, pages 322-32 April 15 Gloom & Doom and the Late Medieval World Read Chapter 12 April 17-19 Late Medieval Piety Read Chapter 12, pages 314-21 April 22 The Black Death April 24 April 26 Rebirth: Renaissance in Europe Read Chapter 14 Review 5
MEDIEVAL TIME LINE THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (500-1000) 312 Battle of Milvian Bridge 325 Council of Nicaea 410 Visigoths Sack Rome 413-426 St. Augustine's City of God 527-565 Reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (c. 1050-1300) 987 Capetian Dynasty replaces Carolingians in France 1066 Norman Conquest of England under William I 1073-1085 Pontificate of Pope Gregory VII 1071 Battle of Manizikert 1077 Henry VI "humbles himself at Canossa" 1079-1142 Life of Peter Abelard 1096-1099 First Crusade (Crusaders take Jerusalem 1099) 1128 Knights Templars founded 1147-1148 Second Crusade 1170 Murder of Thomas Becket 1189-1193 Third Crusade (Crusade of Three Kings) 1198-1216 Papacy of Innocent III (high point of papacy's power) 1201-1204 Fourth Crusade ( sacking of Constantinople) 1208 Innocent III calls the Albigensian Crusade 1210 Franciscan Order (St. Francis 1182-1226) 1215 Magna Carta 1216 Dominican Order (St. Dominic 1170-1221) 1225-1274 St. Thomas Aquinas 1292-1303 Papacy of Boniface VIII 1302 Unam Sanctum THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (c. 1300-1500) 1337-1453 The Hundred Years War 1346 Battle of Crecy 1415 Battle of Agincourt 1431 Burning of Joan of Arc 1309-1376 Avignon Papacy, "the Babylonian Captivity" 1348-1351 The Black Death 1375 Foundation of the "Brethern of the Common Life" 1380 St. Catherine of Siena (d.) 1378-1431 The Great Schism c. 1413 Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ 1455-1485 The War of the Roses (England) THE RENAISSANCE (c. 1453-1650) 1454 Gutenberg prints a Bible at Mainz 1485 Accession of Henry VII (Tudor dynasty) 1492 End of Reconquista (Spain) 1419 Boccaccio's Decameron published 1509 Erasmus writes In Praise of Folly 6
1512 Michaelangelo completes the Sistine Chapel ceiling 1513 Machiavelli writes The Prince 1516 Castiglioni's The Courtier 1519 Cortes begins conquest of Mexico 1543 Copernicus's On the Revolution of the Spheres 7