Subject: HighMA
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:58:16 -0700

Prof. Lisa Wolverton
Spring 2010
Office:  325 McKenzie Hall

Office Hours:  M
9-10:30 am
[email-masked]

History 320

Europe in the High Middle Ages

This course surveys the
changes that swept Europe between 1000 and 1225, including the rise of towns and
universities, new spiritual and artistic visions, and varieties of religious and
social reform.

The readings emphasize
primary sources in translation, some on the web, as well as scholarly articles
and book chapters. The reading of primary sources is a crucial part of learning
to understand the Middle Ages.
Students must keep up with the reading, and learn to engage with it.  Attentive reading will also help you
learn to connect the primary source materials to the larger issues presented in
lectures.

Short papers ask
students to synthesize and analyze primary sources in answer to an assigned
question.  Students must write
two papers and
may choose from three writing assignments noted on the syllabus.  The assigned questions ask students to
analyze primary sources read as part of regular coursework.   No outside research is required or
desirable.  Papers are due on the date noted on the syllabus:  late papers will be penalized; papers
more than one week late will not be accepted.  Students may not write a third paper to make up an
earlier grade or for extra credit.

Since exams will cover both
the lectures and the assigned readings, students are strongly encouraged to attend class
regularly.

The breakdown of the final
grade is as follows:

2
papers @ 20% each
40%

mid-term examination
25%

final examination
35%

Two items are available for
purchase at the UO Bookstore:

The Letters of Abelard and
Heloise, trans. by Betty
Radice

Coursepack (including
all items marked by an * in the syllabus below)

SYLLABUS

The Eleventh Century:
Europeans Mobilize

Mar. 29

Introduction

Mar. 30

Feudalism and
Manorialism

*Bouchard

Apr. 2

Monasticism

*Benedictine
rule

Apr. 5

(cont.)

*Ste Foy; Cluny
foundation

Apr. 7

Peace of God
Movement

*Landes;
*Documents

Apr. 9

Norman
Conquest:  1066

*Chronicle excerpts; Bayeux
Tapestry

Apr. 12

Domesday
Book

*Clanchy; Sample
entry

Apr. 14

Investiture
Controversy:  Church Reform

*Peter
Damian

Apr. 16

Papacy and Empire

*Letters of Gregory
VII

Apr. 19

First
Crusade:  1096

*Urban's speech; Paper
1 due

Apr. 21

Jews in
Christendom

*Anonymous of
Mainz

Apr. 23

The
Expedition

*Fulcher of
Chartres  MAPS

Apr. 26

MIDTERM EXAM              Study
Guide

The Twelfth
Century:  Reform, Renaissance, Revitalization

Apr. 28

New Towns

Apr. 30

New Preachers

*Robert of
Arbrissel

May 3

New
Schools

Abelard, Historia
Calamitatum

May 5

New Disciplines

May 7

New Lovers

*Marie de France; *Andreas; Paper 2
due

May 10

New Orders

*Southern, pp. 240-50,
309-18; Heloise (pp. 93-111)

May 12

(cont.):
Cistercians

*Southern, pp.
250-72

May 14

New
Spirituality

*Bernard;
*Scivias

May 17

New
Government

*FitzNigel

May 19

(cont.)  “Feudal
Monarchy”

Magna
Carta

May 21

New Churches

*Scott

The
Early Thirteenth Century: New Problems, New Solutions

May 24

Francis
of Assisi

*Life of Saint
Francis

May 26

Heretics
and Near-Heretics

*Little; *Life of
Marie d'Oignies

May 28

Dominicans

Canonization
process; Paper 3 due

May 31

MEMORIAL DAY

June 2

Innocent III and Lateran
IV

Lateran IV
(Canons 1-3, 10-21, 37, 47, 51, 62-end)

June 4

Universities

*Baldwin

Monday, June 7, 10:15
a.m.

FINAL
EXAM