http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/highmedsyl07.htm

HISTORY 204: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Spring 2007

Prof. Martha Carlin
copyright 2007, all rights reserved

Office: Holton 328
Phone: (414) 229-5767
Messages: History Department, tel. (414) 229-4361
E-mail: carlin@uwm.edu
Home page: www.uwm.edu/~carlin
Office hours: Tuesdays, 11 AM - noon, and by appointment

TA: Dan Whitfield
Office: Holton 380
Phone: (414) 229-4879
E-mail: djw3@uwm.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays, 11 AM - 1 PM, and by appointment

This course will examine the history of Europe in the high and late middle ages, c. AD 1000-1500.

There are two required textbooks:

Gies, Joseph, and Frances Gies. Life in a Medieval City. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1969; rpt Harper and Row, Perennial Library, 1981.

Judith M. Bennett and C. Warren Hollister. Medieval Europe: A Short History. 10th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

There are also numerous required reading assignments from Internet sources (listed below under Topics and Readings).

E-mail and Internet access: You will require an e-mail account and access to the Internet for this class. All UWM students receive a free UWM e-mail account, and have free Internet access via UWM computer terminals. The History Department regularly contacts students via their assigned UWM e-mail addresses. If you use another e-mail service provider (e.g., Hotmail or Yahoo!) instead of your assigned Panthermail account, you should immediately access your Panthermail account and put a "forward" command on to to forward all incoming e-mail messages to the account that you routinely use. This is your responsibility; the History Department reflectors use Panthermail e-addresses only.

Papers: There is one required, 5-page, research paper (described at end of syllabus). The paper is due in class on Thursday, 5 April 2007.

Exams: There will be two exams: an in-class midterm (covering material from weeks 1-6) on Thursday, 1 March 2007, and a final exam (covering material from weeks 7-15) on Friday, 18 May 2005, 10 AM-Noon . The final exam date and time are set by the University and cannot be altered. No alternative day or time for the final exam will be possible.

Grading and deadlines: Your final grade will be based on your research paper (25%); your midterm exam (25%); your final exam (25%); and your attendance, participation, and work in your discussion section (25%). The research paper is due and exams will be held on the dates specified above. Late work will not be accepted, except in cases of major illness or emergency (please contact me immediately in such a case).

Attendance: Your regular attendance is essential, both at lectures and at discussion sections. Students who do not attend class (including discussion sections) or contact me during the first week of classes may be dropped administratively.

Disabilities: If you have a disability, it is important that you contact me early in the semester for any help or accommodations you may need.

Academic advising in History: All L&S students have to declare and complete an academic major to graduate. If you have earned in excess of 45 credits and have not yet declared a major, you are encouraged to do so. If you are interested in declaring a major or minor in History, or require academic advising in History, please see the academic advising web page of Professor Lex Renda, at: http://www.uwm.edu/~renlex/advising.html

Academic integrity at UWM: UWM and I expect each student to be honest in academic performance. Failure to do so may result in discipline under rules published by the Board of Regents (UWS 14). The penalties for academic misconduct such as cheating or plagiarism can include a grade of "F" for the course and expulsion from the University.

UWM policies on course-related matters: See the website of the Secretary of the University, at: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SecU/SyllabusLinks.pdf

TOPICS AND READINGS

Week 1 INTRODUCTION; EUROPE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY

23 Jan. Introduction to course

25 Jan. Bennett and Hollister, pp. 1-3 (Introduction); 5-7, 149-155 (overviews of the Early and Central Middle Ages, 500-1300)

J. H. Robinson, "Why study history through primary sources?"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/robinson-sources.html

The Peace of God proclaimed in the archdiocese of Bordeaux, 989
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pc-of-god.html

Raoul Glaber, Histories: Church-building and the cult of relics around the year 1000
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/Glaber.htm

The Truce of God proclaimed by the Bishop of Terouanne and Count Baldwin of Flanders, 1063
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/t-of-god.html

Week 2 LIFE ON THE MANOR; FEUDAL SOCIETY

30 Jan. Bennett and Hollister, pp. 156-167 (Economic Takeoff and Social Change, c. 1000-1300: rural life)

Aelfric, Colloquy, c. 1000: Peasant work
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1000workers.html

Pierce the Plowman’s Crede, late 14th century: peasant life
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/plowman'screde.htm

Photograph of 13th-cent. cottage from Hangleton, Sussex
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/hangleton-13th-century-medieval-flint-thatch-cottage.htm

1 Feb. Bennett and Hollister, pp. 180-185 (The Landholding Aristocracy)

The feudal compact: homages paid by the counts of Champagne, 1143-1226
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/champagnehomages.htm

John of Toul's homage to the Count of Champagne, 13th cent.
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/toul.htm

Four English treatises on household and estate administration, later 13th cent.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1275manors1.html

Glossary of technical terms used in the above four treatises

Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies (1405): A lady's duties
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/highmed.pisan1.htm

Week 3 NEW PATHS TO GOD; CONQUESTS AND CRUSADES

6 Feb. Bennett and Hollister, pp.58-60 (Benedictine Monasticism), pp. 186-214 (New Paths to God, c. 1000-1250)

Gies and Gies, pp. 10-22 (Prologue), 120-134 (Chap. 9)

Archbishop Eudes of Rouen: Visitation of monastic and parish clergy, 1248-9
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/eudes.html

8 Feb. Bennett and Hollister, pp. 215-228 (European conquests; the First Crusade)

                               Robert the Monk, Historia Hierosolymitana (c. 1120): Pope Urban II’s speech at Clermont, 1095
                                (Read the brief editor's introduction, and then click on and read text no. 2)
                                http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2-5vers.html

Map of the First Crusade, 1095-99
http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/aencmed/targets/maps/mhi/T012941A.gif

Ekkehard of Aurach, Hierosolymita (early 1100s): The first Crusaders
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ekkehard-aur1.html

                              Fulk of Chartres: The Capture of Jerusalem in 1099, and the Latins in the East (see both websites below)
                                     http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulk2.html
                                     http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulk3.html

Week 4 THE LATER CRUSADES; PERSECUTIONS

13 Feb.. Bennett and Hollister, pp. 228-239 (the later Crusades; persecutions)

                             Annales Herbipolenses, 1147: A hostile view of the 2nd Crusade, by an anonymous
                              annalist of Würzburg
                                  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1147critic.html

                         De expugnatione terrae sanctae per Saladinum: Eyewitness account of the capture of
                             Jerusalem by Saladin, 1187
                              http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1187saladin.html

                          Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi (Itinerary of the Travels and Deeds
                       of King Richard): Richard the Lionheart makes peace with Saladin, 1192
                               http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1192peace.html

              15 Feb.   The development of the Inquisition:
                                Decree of the Council of Toulouse(1229)
                                Gregory IX sends Domincan friars as Inquisitors to France (1233)
                                Bernard Gui, Inquisitor’s Manual (c. 1307-23):
                                        the heresies of the Waldensians or Poor Men of Lyon
                                        the Cathars or Albigensians
                                 http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/Inquisition.htm

Bernard Gui, Inquisitor’s Manual (c. 1307-23): inquisitorial technique
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/heresy2.html

Week 5 COMMERCE AND TOWNS

20 Feb. Bennett and Hollister, pp. 167-179 (The Commercial Revolution)

Gies and Gies, pp. 23-33 (Chap. 1)

Charter of the shearers of Arras, 1236
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1236Weavers5.html

Two apprenticeship contracts for weavers in Arras and Marseilles, c. 1250
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1250weaversapp.html

A purchase on credit in Marseille, 1248
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1248roubauds-credit.html

Regulations of the London Cordwainers' (shoemakers') guild, 1375
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/DOCS/CHAR1375.HTM

Photograph of two 15th-cent. shops with dwelling above, from Horsham, Sussex
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/shops-15th-century-medieval-jettied-smoke-bay.htm

22 Feb. Gies and Gies, pp. 76-108 (Chaps. 6-7), 199-223 (Chaps. 15-16)

Week 6 DAILY LIFE IN TOWN AND CASTLE

27 Feb. Gies and Gies, pp. 34-75 (Chaps. 2-5)

William Fitzstephen, Description of London, c. 1173
http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/introduction/intro01.html

                              Jean "Clopinel" de Meun's continuation of Guillaume de Lorris's allegorical poem, The Romance
                                 of the Rose: Duenna's advice on table manners for young women, late 13th cent.:
                                 http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/rom-mann.html

                             Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies (1405):
                               responsibilities of the wives of craftsmen
                                http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/highmed.pisan2.htm

Expenses of the Aragonese ambassadors in England, 1415
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/aragon.html

1 March MIDTERM EXAM

Week 7 WORLDS IN COLLISION: PAPACY AND EMPIRE, c. 1125-1300

6 March Bennett and Hollister, pp. 240-246 (the Investiture Controversy)

                               The papacy in the mid eleventh century:
                                    Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida excommunicates the Patriarch of Constantinople (1054)
                                    papal election decree (1059)
                              http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/1054&1059.htm

Dictatus papae (Dictates of the Pope), 1075 or 1090
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-dictpap.html

Gregory VII prohibits lay investiture, 1070s
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-reform2.html

Henry IV: Letter to Gregory VII, 24 Jan. 1076
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/henry4-to-g7a.html

Gregory VII deposes Henry IV, 22 Feb. 1076
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-ban1.html

8 March Bennett and Hollister, pp. 250-265 (Papacy and Empire, 1125-1300)

Innocent III (r. 1198-1216): On papal power
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/InnocentIII.htm

Frederick Barbarossa: On keeping the peace, 1152-7
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/peace.htm

Innocent III: Canons of the 4th Lateran Council, 1215
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lat4-select.html

Salimbene, Chronicle: Description of Frederick II
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/salimbene1.html

Week 8 NORMAN ENGLAND, 1066-1307

13 March Bennett and Hollister, pp. 266-270 (England)

The Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070s (see all 5 websites below)

                                http://papagei.us/midages/bayeuxtapestry1.htm
                              http://papagei.us/midages/bayeuxtapestry2.htm
                                http://papagei.us/midages/bayeuxtapestry3.htm
                                http://papagei.us/midages/bayeuxtapestry4.htm
                                http://papagei.us/midages/bayeuxtapestry5.htm

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Domesday Book and William I
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1186ASChron-Domesday.html

Domesday Book (1086): Instructions and entry
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/domesday1.html

Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon (c. 1080-1160), Chronicle: Stephen’s reign
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/henry-hunt1.html

15 March Bennett and Hollister, pp. 270-277 (England)

Peter of Blois: Description of Henry II, 1177
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1177peterblois-hen2.html

Edward Grim: The Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket, 29 Dec. 1170
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/grim-becket.html

Peter of Blois: Letter to Queen Eleanor, 1173
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/eleanor.html

Magna Carta, 1215: complete text
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/magnacarta.html

Matthew of Westminster: Simon de Montfort's rebellion, 1264-5
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/matt-west1.html

Three summonses to Parliament, 1295
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ed1-summons.html

SPRING RECESS: 18-25 MARCH 2007

Week 9 CAPETIAN FRANCE AND THE LOW COUNTRIES, 987-1314

27 March Bennett and Hollister, pp. 277-288 (France, Iberia, Eastern Europe)

                            Rigord, Deeds of Philip II "Augustus," 1190s. Read all the following selections:
                                     Editor’s introduction
                                     Year One, Chap. 1
                                     Year Three, Chaps. 15-17
                                     Year Five, Chaps. 26-29
                                     Year Six, Chap. 50
                                     Year Seven, Chaps. 53, 56
                                     Year Nine, Chaps. 66-70
                             http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/prh3/408/texts/Rigindex.html

29 March Jean, sire de Joinville (1224-1318), extracts from the Life of St. Louis
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/344join.html

                             King Philip IV ("the Fair") of France vs. Pope Boniface VIII:
                                        Philip rejects papal authority (1297)
                                        Boniface threatens to depose Philip (1302)
                                        accusation by Philip's lawyer against Boniface (1303)
                            http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/PhilipIV.htm


Week 10     SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES

3 April Bennett and Hollister, pp. 246-249, 307-320 (Schools, Universities, and Intellectual Trends)

Gies and Gies, pp. 154-165 (Chap. 11)

                             Pierre Abelard (1079-1142), Sic et Non (Yes and No), c. 1120, and Historia
                           calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes): excerpts (see both websites below)
                           http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1120abelard.html
                           http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/211abel.html

Gregory IX: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1231
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/UParis-stats1231.html

Jacques de Vitry: Student life at the University of Paris, 13th century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vitry1.html

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-75), Summa theologica: Justification for the Inquisition
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/Aquinas.htm

5 April [RESEARCH PAPER DUE IN CLASS] Film

Week 11 LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE, c. 1000-1300

10 April Bennett and Hollister, pp. 289-307 (Literature and Architecture)

Gies and Gies, pp. 135-153 (Chap. 10)

12 April Gies and Gies, pp.166-189 (Chaps. 12-13)

Week 12 PAPAL POLITICS OF THE FOURTEENTH AND EARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURIES: THE
BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, THE GREAT SCHISM, AND THE CONCILIAR MOVEMENT

17 April Bennett and Hollister, pp. 321-324 (overview of the Later Middle Ages), 336-345 (Late Medieval Christianity)

Boniface VIII: Clericis laicos, 1296
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-clericos.html

Boniface VIII: Unam sanctam, 1302
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-unam.html

Petrarch’s invectives against Avignon
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/Petrarch.htm

Marsiglio of Padua, Defensor pacis (1324): Conclusions
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/marsiglio1.html

19 April The origins of the Great Schism: Manifesto of the revolting cardinals, 1378
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/grtschism1.html

                            The end of the Great Schism and the Council of Constance:
                               St. Catherine of Siena beseeches Gregory IX to return to Rome
                               Jean Petit, "The Complaint of Lady Church," 1393: Satire on the multiple popes of the Great Schism
                               Jan Hus: Reply to the synod of Prague, 1413; and last words at the stake, 1415
                             http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/schism.htm

Powers of the Council of Pisa, 1409
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1409pisa.html

Pius II: Decree Execrabilis, 1459
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/p2-execrabilis.html

Week 13 HEALTH AND ILLNESS, PLAGUE AND FAMINE

24 April Gies and Gies, pp. 109-119 (Chap. 8)

John de Trokelowe, Annales: Famine of 1315
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/famin1315a.html

Some medieval English medical recipes, 14th-15th cent.
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/harl2378.html

L'ornement des dames: collection of English beauty recipes, 13th century
http://mysticwomen.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/ruelle.html

26 April Bennett and Hollister, pp. 325-336 (Famine, Plague, and Recovery, c. 1300-1500)

                           Marchione di Coppo Stefani, The Florentine Chronicle (1370s-1380s): the plague
                             in Florence, 1348
                            http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/marchione.html

The plague in England, 1348-9
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/plagueandafter.html

                          The economic effects of the Plague in England: the Ordinance of Laboureres (1349) and the Statute of
                            Labourers (1351) (see both websites below)
                            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/seth/ordinance-labourers.html
                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/seth/statute-labourers.html

                        Journal of a Bourgeois of Paris, 1405-1449, pp. 131, 155: Death, 1418; Poverty, 1420
                            http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/parisjournal1.html

Week 14 KNIGHTHOOD, WARFARE, AND REVOLT

1 May Gies and Gies, pp. 190-198 (Chap. 14)

Bennett and Hollister, pp. 346-365 (Towards the Sovereign State)

        3 May        Jean Froissart, Chronicle:
                                An English knight is felled by a Parisian butcher
                                the Jacquerie in France, 1358
                                the origins of the English Peasants' Revolt, 1381 (see all three websites below)
                         http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/parisbar.htm
                         http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart2.html
                         http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/peasants.htm

                       Journal of a Bourgeois of Paris, 1405-1449, pp. 145-7: War, 1419; pp. 233-4, 240-2,
                                249, 253-4, 260-5:   Joan of Arc, 1429-31
                              http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/parisjournal2.html

The trial of Joan of Arc, 1431
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1431joantrial.html

                          Battle injuries: skeletons from the battles of Visby, Gotland (a Baltic island), 1361, and
                           Towton, England, 1461 (see both websites below)
                              http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/visby.htm
                            http://www.the-exiles.org/Article%20Towton.htm

Week 15 DIVERSITY AND DYNAMISM IN LATE MEDIEVAL CULTURE; REVIEW

8 May Bennett and Hollister, pp. 366-383 (Diversity and Dynamism in Late Medieval Culture, c. 1300-1500)

The new technologies: see all of the websites below

10 May REVIEW

RESEARCH PAPER FOR HISTORY 204

Choose one of the following topics:

It is AD 1099. You are a Jew or Muslim living in Jerusalem. Describe your experiences during the First
Crusade. (As a Jew or Muslim you do not, of course, use the AD calendar or the term "Crusade.")

It is the year 1215. You are an emissary of the pope, visiting the English court. Write a confidential report to
the pope giving the political news.

        It is sometime between 1300 and 1320. You are a peasant or townsperson from the south of France who has
        been arrested and charged with heresy by the local Inquisitor. Produce a transcript of your interrogation and
        testimony in the Inquisitor's court.

You are a physician (if male) or (if female) a nun serving as a nurse at the Hôtel-Dieu, in Paris, at the time of the
Black Death. Write an account of your experiences during that calamity.

Your paper must be five, double-spaced, typescript pages long, exclusive of notes and bibliography.

The point is to produce a piece of genuine historical research, packed with factual details, so no fantasy and no time-travelers, please.

Your paper must be based on a minimum of two primary ("eyewitness") sources and three scholarly secondary (later) sources. Encyclopedias are permissible as sources of general background reading (and must be cited if used), but cannot be used as any of the three required secondary sources. At least three of your five required sources must be from printed books; two may be from the Internet. (Any additional sources that you use may be taken either from the Internet or from printed books.)

Do not use non-scholarly sources, such as amateur Internet sites, games, or novels, as sources for this paper. For secondary sources, only those that are fully documented with footnotes or endnotes will be considered scholarly; a bibliography alone is insufficient. (If you cannot remember the difference between primary and secondary sources, re-read the Internet reading from Week 1: "Why study history from primary sources?") I have put links to a small selection of online primary sources on my homepage at:
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/primarysources.204.htm

Full documentation -- endnotes or footnotes, plus bibliography -- is required. (Parenthetical citations are not acceptable.) College-level writing, using correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation, also is required. For guidelines on paper-writing and documentation, see handout, or consult any of the online style guidelines listed on my homepage at:
http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/#DOCUMENTATION%20GUIDES

The paper is due in class on Thursday, 5 April 2007. No extensions will be allowed on the paper except in the case of major illness or emergency (please contact me immediately in such a case).