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07/15/18 4AAH1002: European History 400 - 1500 | King's College London
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Lecture 1 – Romans and Barbarians: Europe in 400AD (15 items)Question: How distinct were Roman and 'barbarian' areas of Europe c. 400AD?
Essential/Core (1 items)
Chapter 2 of The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000Chapter | Core | (chs. 1 & 3 will also be useful, but not essential).
General background: (5 items)
The Cambridge ancient history: Vol. 13: The late empire, A.D. 337-425 - Cameron, Averil,Garnsey, Peter, 1998
Book | Recommended | thematic chapters on particular topics such as army, religionetc.
The Cambridge ancient history: Vol. 14: Late antiquity : empire and successors, AD425-600 - Cameron, Averil, Ward-Perkins, J. B., Whitby, Michael, 2000
Book | Recommended | thematic chapters on particular topics such as army, religionetc.
The world of Late Antiquity - Brown, Peter, 1971Book | Recommended
The world of Late Antiquity - Brown, Peter, 1971Book | Recommended | esp. chs. 8-11
Empires and barbarians - Heather, P. J., 2009Book | Recommended | chs. 1-3
The Roman Empire: (5 items)
The fall of the Roman Empire: a new history of Rome and the barbarians - Heather, P. J.,2005
Book | Recommended | ch. 1 and 3
The later Roman Empire 284-602: a social, economic, and administrative survey - Jones, A.H. M., 1964
Book | Recommended | retains value, esp. chapters on government and society: 11-16,19 and 24 (see also the review by Peter Brown, Religion and Society in the Age of SaintAugustine (1972)).
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The corrupting sea: a study of Mediterranean history - Horden, Peregrine, Purcell, Nicholas,2000
Book | Recommended
Western aristocracies and imperial court, AD 365-425 - Matthews, John, 1975Book | Recommended | chs 1-2.
Art and ceremony in late antiquity - MacCormack, Sabine, c1981Book | Recommended | pp. 17-39, 93-115, 168-185.
Non-Roman Europe: (4 items)
The early Germans - Malcolm Todd, 2004Book | Recommended
The Goths in the fourth century - Heather, Peter, Matthews, John, 1991Book | Recommended
The early Slavs - P. M. Barford, 2001Book | Recommended | esp. ch. 1.
The barbarians speak: how the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe - Wells, Peter S.,c1999
Book | Recommended
Seminar 1 – The Fall of the Roman West (16 items)Question: ‘The empire didn't fall, it was assassinated’ (A. Piganiol). Discuss.
Essential/Core (2 items)
Rome, Constantinople, and the Barbarians - Walter Goffart, 1981Article | Core
The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe - Peter Heather, 1995Article | Core
General background (3 items)
Empires and barbarians - Heather, P. J., 2009Book | Recommended | chapter 7.
The fall of Rome: and the end of civilization - Ward-Perkins, J. B., 2005Book | Recommended | chs. 1-3.
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, c2010Book | Recommended | chs. 3, 4, 6.
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Barbarians (5 items)
Review article: Movers and Shakers: the Barbarians and the Fall of Rome - Guy Halsall,2003-05-02
Article | Recommended | reviews some historiographical approaches.
Nomadism, Horse and Huns - Rudi Paul Lindner, 1981Article | Recommended
The fall of the Roman Empire: a new history of Rome and the barbarians - Heather, P. J.,2005
Book | Recommended | esp. chs. 1, 2, 9, 10.
Barbarian tides: the migration age and the later Roman Empire - Goffart, Walter A., c2006Book | Recommended | esp. chs. 2, 5, 8
Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 - Halsall, Guy, 2007Book | Recommended | esp. chs. 6-7
Romans (3 items)
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | Recommended | esp. ch.4.
The end of the Roman army in the western empire - W. LiebeschuetzChapter | Recommended
East & West in the Fifth-Century - P. HeatherArticle | Recommended | on relations between the eastern and western empires, and
the significance or otherwise of the year 476.
Regional case studies (3 items)
Fifth-century Gaul: a crisis of identity? - Drinkwater, J. F., Elton, Hugh, 1992Book | Recommended
The fifth century in Hispania: some historical problems - J. AcreChapter | Recommended
Chapter 17 of An imperial possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC-AD 409Chapter | Recommended | (see also ch. 14 on the local barbarians)
Lecture 2 – Western Successors and the Roman Heritage (15 items)Question: How Roman were the successor states in the former western Empire?
Essential Reading (2 items)
The other transition: from the Ancient World to Feudalism - Chris Wickham, 1984
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Article | Core
Theoderic, king of the Goths - Peter Heather, 2007-03-15Article | Core
General (6 items)
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | Recommended | chs. 5-7
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, c2010Book | Recommended | ch. 7, 10-11
The fall of Rome: and the end of civilization - Ward-Perkins, J. B., 2005Book | Recommended | ch. 4 onwards.
State, lordship and community - P. HeatherChapter | Recommended
The Uses of literacy in early medieval Europe - McKitterick, Rosamond, 1990Book | Recommended | esp. essays by Wood, Noble, Collins
Regna and gentes: the relationship between late antique and early medieval peoples andkingdoms in the transformation of the Roman world - Goetz, Hans-Werner, Jarnut, Jörg,Pohl, Walter, 2003
Book | Recommended | includes essays on all the successor kingdoms.
Italy and Gaul (1 items)
See seminar reading list, below.
Visigothic Spain: (2 items)
The new Cambridge medieval history: Vol. 1: c.500-c.700 - Fouracre, Paul, 2005Book | Recommended | chs. 7 & 13.
Early medieval Spain: unity in diversity, 400-1000 - Collins, Roger, 1983Book | Recommended | chs. 1-2.
Vandal Africa: (1 items)
Regna and gentes: the relationship between late antique and early medieval peoples andkingdoms in the transformation of the Roman world - Goetz, Hans-Werner, Jarnut, Jörg,Pohl, Walter, 2003
Book | Recommended
Britannia: (3 items)
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In general Britain is outside the remit of this module, but post-Roman power differed ininteresting and dramatic ways from most of the continent, so the comparison is worthmaking:
Why did the Anglo-Saxons not become more British? - B Ward-Perkins, 2000-06-01Article | Recommended
Britain after Rome: the fall and rise, 400-1070 - Robin Fleming, 2011Book | Recommended | chs. 2-4.
The Anglo-Saxons - Campbell, James, John, Eric, Wormald, Patrick, Addyman, P. V., 1991,c1982
Book | Recommended | ch. 1-2
Seminar 2 – Theoderic and Clovis (18 items)Question: Was Theoderic more Roman than Clovis?
Essential Reading: (2 items)
Cassiodorus lettersChapter | Core
On ClovisChapter | Core
Ostrogothic Italy (6 items)
Theoderic in Italy - Moorhead, John, 1992Book | Recommended | chs. 3 and 5-7
People and identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554 - Amory, Patrick, 2002Book | Recommended | chs. 2-4 and Appendix.
Roman and Goth in the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths - P. HeatherChapter | Recommended | Roman and Goth in the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths’
Toward a History of Theoderic's Building Program - Mark J. Johnson, 1988Article | Recommended
Taxation, Land and Barbarian Settlement in the Western Empire - S. J. B. Barnish, 1986Article | Recommended
The Goths - Heather, P. J., 1996Book | Recommended | chs. 8-9
Merovingian Gaul (10 items)
The Franks - James, Edward, 1988
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Book | Recommended | chs 1, and 3-6
Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 - Wickham, Chris,2005
Book | Recommended | pp. 41-47
The Merovingian kingdoms, 450-751 - Wood, Ian, 1994Book | Recommended | ch. 1-6
The long-haired kings, and other studies in Frankish history - Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., 1962Book | Recommended | chs. 1, 6, 7.
Merovingian military organization, 481-751 - Bachrach, Bernard S, c1972Book | Recommended | (on civitas levies: use index).
On the aristocratic character of early Frankish Society - F. IrsiglerChapter | Recommended
Lord and Follower in German institutional history - W. SchlesingerChapter | Recommended
Gregory of Tours and Clovis - I. N. Wood, 1985Article | Recommended
Kings, Kingdoms and Consent - I. N. WoodChapter | Recommended
Lex Scripta and Verbum Regis: Legislation and Germanic Kingship from Euric to Cnut - P.Wormald
Chapter | Recommended
Lecture 3 – The Spread of Latin Christianity (20 items)Questions:How far and by what means had Christianity spread across the European landscape byc.700 AD?Who was the head of the Church in the 'long late Antiquity' (250-700AD)?
Core reading (2 items)
Sources (1 items)
'7th c. Kentish law codes' in English historical documents: c. 500-1042 - Whitelock,Dorothy, 1996
Book | Core | very good on the progressive impact of some aspects of Christianity in theAnglo-Saxon case
Secondary (1 items)
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The conversion of Europe: from paganism to Christianity, 371-1386 AD - Fletcher, R. A.,1997
Book | Core | (= same book as The Barbarian Conversion), relevant chapters
Further Reading (2 items)
The end of ancient Christianity - Markus, R. A., 1990Book | Recommended | later parts extremely important
The rise of Western Christendom: triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000 - Brown, PeterRobert Lamont, 2003
Book | Recommended | esp. pp. 54-71, ‘Christianity and Empire’
More specific (3 items)
The Cambridge ancient history: Vol. 13: The late empire, A.D. 337-425 - Cameron, Averil,Garnsey, Peter, 1998
Book | Recommended | chs 19 and 21
The Cambridge ancient history: Vol. 14: Late antiquity : empire and successors, AD425-600 - Cameron, Averil, Ward-Perkins, J. B., Whitby, Michael, 2000
Book | Recommended | Chapter 24
The new Cambridge medieval history: Vol. 1: c.500-c.700 - Fouracre, Paul, 2005Book | Recommended
MISSIONARIES, STRATEGIES AND EFFECTS (5 items)(impt to read and think about material from this section)
Gregory the Great and papal missionary strategy - R. A. MarkusChapter | Recommended | (Markus' papers are also available in a collection, From
Augustine to Gregory the Great)
The missionary life: saints and the evangelisation of Europe, 400-1050 - Wood, Ian, 2001Book | Recommended | early chapters
The rise of magic in early medieval Europe - Flint, Valerie I. J., 1991Book | Recommended | introduction and conclusion, and as much else as you can
manage.
The coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England - Mayr-Harting, Henry, 1991Book | Recommended | excellent specific case study
Pastoral care before the parish - Sharpe, Richard, Blair, John, 1992Book | Recommended | introduction and English material
Patriarchs and Emperors (8 items)
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Sources (1 items)
The book of pontiffs (Liber pontificalis): the ancient biographies of the first ninety Romanbishops to AD 715 - Davis, Raymond, 2010
Book | Core
Secondary (7 items)
Gregory the Great and his world - Markus, R. A., 1997Book | Recommended | esp ch. 6 and 10 to 12
The Theodosian Code: studies in the Imperial law of late antiquity - Harries, Jill, Wood, I. N.,1993
Book | Recommended | essay by Vessey
The rise of Western Christendom: triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000 - Brown, PeterRobert Lamont, 2003
Book | Recommended | ch. 13
The end of ancient Christianity - Markus, R. A., 1990Book | Recommended
The formation of Christendom - Herrin, Judith, 1989Book | Recommended
The new Cambridge medieval history: Vol. 1: c.500-c.700 - Fouracre, Paul, 2005Book | Recommended | ch. 25
The Republic of St. Peter: the birth of the Papal State 680-825 - Noble, Thomas F. X., 1984Book | Recommended | early chapters
Seminar 3 – Monasticism (20 items)Question: In what senses did early medieval monks escape from the world?
Essential Reading (2 items)
The rise of Western Christendom: triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000 - Brown, PeterRobert Lamont, 2003
Book | Core | esp. ch. 9, but the whole book is full of interesting material.
The rule of Saint Benedict: a guide to Christian living : the full text of the rule in Latin andEnglish - Benedict, Holzherr, George, Glenstal Abbey, c1994
Book | Core
General monastic topics (3 items)
Medieval monasticism: forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages -
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Lawrence, C. H., 2001Book | Recommended | chs. 1-3.
Monascticism - P. RosseauChapter | Recommended
The Holy Man - P. BrownChapter | Recommended
Sources (3 items)
Early Christian lives - White, Carolinne, 1998Book | Recommended | Including Athanasius, Life of Antony, and Gregory the Great, Life
of Benedict, Sulpicius Severus, Life of Martin.
The sayings of the Desert Fathers: the alphabetical collection - Ward, Benedicta, 1975Book | Recommended
Jerome: The Principal Works of St. JeromeWebsite | Recommended | Lives of Hilarion & Malchus and Letters to Heliodorus,
Eustochium, Furia, Rusticus & Demetrius
Further reading (12 items)
Carolingian monasticism: the power of prayer - M. De JongChapter | Additional
The emergence of monasticism: from the Desert Fathers to the early Middle Ages - Dunn,Marilyn, 2000
Book | Additional | covers east and west.
Medieval monasticism - J. L. NelsonChapter | Additional
The end of ancient Christianity - Markus, R. A., 1990Book | Additional
The Frankish Church - Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., 1983Book | Additional | Chapter 4.
Convents, violence and competition for power in seventh-century Francia - R. Le JanChapter | Additional
Columbanus and Merovingian monasticism - 1981Book | Additional | articles by Prinz, Riche & Picard.
The cult of the saints: its rise and function in Latin Christianity - Brown, Peter, 1981Book | Additional | ch. 2-5
Pagans and Christians - Lane Fox, Robin, 1988
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Book | Additional | ch. 7, pp. 413-8, and ch. 10.
The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity - Peter Brown, 1971Article | Additional | Read with: Maro the Dendrite
Maro the Dendrite: An Antisocial Holy Man - L. M. WhitbyChapter | Additional | read with The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late
Antiquity,"
Virgins of God: the making of asceticism in late antiquity - Elm, Susanna, 1994Book | Additional
Lecture 4 – Economic life (25 items)Question: What were the economic consequences of the fall of the Roman empire?
Essential Reading: (3 items)
Marx, Sherlock Holmes, and Late Roman Commerce - Review by: Chris Wickham, 1988Article | Core
The fall of Rome: and the end of civilization - Ward-Perkins, J. B., 2005Book | Core | chs. 5-6.
State, lordship and community in the early medieval West - HeatherChapter | Core
Roman Economy (6 items)
The Cambridge ancient history: Vol. 13: The late empire, A.D. 337-425 - Cameron, Averil,Garnsey, Peter, 1998
Book | Recommended | chapters 9, 10 and 12
Agricultural production in the Roman economy A.D. 200-400 - Lewit, Tamara, 1991Book | Recommended | on archaeological evidence.
The Transformation of classical cities and the Pirenne Debate - S. BarnishArticle | Recommended
Marseille: A Late Antique Success Story? - S. T. Loseby, 1992Article | Recommended
Economic Growth and Towns in Classical Antiquity - K. HopkinsChapter | Recommended
Decline and fall of the Roman city - Liebeschuetz, John Hugo Wollfgang Gideon, 2001Book | Recommended
Post-Roman Economy (these are arranged basically chronologically) (16
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The new Cambridge medieval history: Vol. 1: c.500-c.700 - Fouracre, Paul, 2005Book | Recommended | ch. 22-3
The sixth century: production, distribution, and demand - Hodges, Richard, Bowden,William, 1998
Book | Recommended | very important new collection of papers, with magisterialintroduction by C. Wickham
Review article: Movers and Shakers: the Barbarians and the Fall of Rome - Guy Halsall,2003-05-02
Article | Recommended
The Cambridge ancient history: Vol. 14: Late antiquity : empire and successors, AD425-600 - Cameron, Averil, Ward-Perkins, J. B., Whitby, Michael, 2000
Book | Recommended | chapters 12 and 13
Description of DijonChapter | Recommended
State, lordship and community in the early medieval West - P. HeatherChapter | Recommended
Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 - Wickham, Chris,2005
Book | Recommended | pp. 591-96, pp. 602-74
Towns in transition: urban evolution in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages - Christie,Neil, Loseby, S. T, c1996
Book | Recommended
The Anglo-Saxons - Campbell, James, John, Eric, Wormald, Patrick, Addyman, P. V., 1991,c1982
Book | Recommended | Chapters 1-2
The Middle Byzantine Economy, 600-1204 - M. WhittowChapter | Recommended
The Long Eighth Century - Chris Wickham, July 2000Book | Recommended
Towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne - Hodges, Richard, 2000Book | Recommended | especially on eighth-century emporia.
Read with:
Towns - F. VerhaegheChapter | Recommended
Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 - Wickham, Chris,2005
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Book | Recommended | pp. 708-759, 794-824.
The origins of the European economy: communications and commerce, c.700-c.900 -McCormick, Michael, 2001
Book | Recommended | pp.778-98
Seminar 4 – Towns from the Late Roman World to the Early MiddleAges (23 items)Question: How did the functions of towns change from late antiquity to the early MiddleAges?
Essential Readings (2 items)
W.I. Miller, The Saga of Audun and the Polar Bear (Leiden, 2008), pp. 7-12Chapter | Core
•M. Mauss, The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, tr. W.D. Halls(London, 1990), introduction and chapter 1
Chapter | Core
Towns from the Late roman World to the Early Middle Ages (3 items)
The history of the Franks - Gregory of Tours, 1974Book | Core | pp. 182-183
State, lordship and community in the early medieval West - P HeatherChapter | Core
Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 - Wickham, Chris,2005
Book | Core
Supplementary Reading (4 items)
Decline and fall of the Roman city - Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G., 2001Book | Recommended
Towns in transition: urban evolution in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages - Christie,Neil, Loseby, S. T, c1996
Book | Recommended
The Anglo-Saxons - Campbell, James, John, Eric, Wormald, Patrick, Addyman, P. V., 1991,c1982
Book | Recommended | cc.1-2
The fall of Rome: and the end of civilization - Ward-Perkins, J. B., 2005
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Book | Recommended | part 2
The Late Roman City (9 items)
Older Overviews of Roman urbanisation and its evolution (2 items)
The ancient economy - Finley, M. I., 1992Book | Additional
The later Roman Empire 284-602: a social, economic, and administrative survey - Jones, A.H. M., 1964
Book | Additional | c. 19
More Recent Studies (3 items)
Aphrodisias in late antiquity: the late Roman and Byzantine inscriptions including textsfrom the excavations at Aphrodisias conducted by Kenan T. Erim - Roueché, Charlotte,Reynolds, Joyce, 1989
Book | Additional | introduction
Taxes and Trade in the Roman Empire (200 B.C.–A.D. 400) - Keith Hopkins, 1980-11Article | Additional
The Cambridge ancient history: Vol. 13: The late empire, A.D. 337-425 - Cameron, Averil,Garnsey, Peter, 1998
Book | Additional | chapters 10 and 12
Broader Perspectives (4 items)
Chapter 24: Art and Architecture - J ElsnerChapter | Additional
'New Men for New Constantines' - P HeatherChapter | Additional
‘Luni: the prosperity of the town and its territory,’ - JB. Ward-PerkinsChapter | Additional
The city in late antiquity - Rich, John, 1992Book | Additional
Early Medieval Towns (5 items)
Towns and trade in the age of Charlemagne - Hodges, Richard, 2000Book | Additional
‘Trade and market origins in the 9th century’ - R. Hodges
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Chapter | Additional
Charlemagne: empire and society - Story, Joanna, 2005Book | Additional | chapters by Coupland and Verhaeghe
Carolingian Economy - A Verhulst, 2002Book | Additional
The Origins of Towns in the Low Countries and the Pirenne Thesis - Adriaan Verhulst, 1989Article | Additional
Lecture 5 – The Byzantine empire, from Justinian to 1025 (15 items)Questions: How did the Byzantine Empire react to outside factors between 527 and 1025?How did it make the transition from Mediterranean-wide empire to Balkan- and AsiaMinor-centred regional power?
Essential Reading (2 items)
How the Roman Empire survived - Mark WhittowChapter | Core
Chapter 13 of The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000Chapter | Core
Further Reading (9 items)
The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire c. 500--1492 - Shepard, Jonathan, 2008Book | Recommended | is available online via KCL library and has a wide range of
authoritative articles, a good starting point for essays
The formation of Christendom - Herrin, Judith, 1989Book | Recommended
Byzantium and the West, 700-900 - M. McCormickChapter | Recommended
Byzantium in the seventh century: the transformation of a culture - Haldon, John F.,American Council of Learned Societies, 1997
Book | Recommended
Spreading the Word: Byzantine Missions - J. ShepardChapter | Recommended | Chapter 9
Roman Emperors: De Imperatoribus Romanis: Basil II - Catherine Holmes, 2003Webpage | Recommended
The social history of Byzantium - Haldon, John F., 2009Book | Recommended
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The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire c. 500--1492 - Shepard, Jonathan, 2008Book | Recommended
A history of Byzantium - Gregory, Timothy E., 2010Book | Recommended
Sources (4 items)
Plague - ProcopiusChapter | Recommended
Tactica - Leo VIDocument | Recommended | On Warfare
The Patriarch and the Prince: the letter of Patriarch Photios of Constantinople to Khan Borisof Bulgaria - Photius, Boris, White, Despina Stratoudaki, Berrigan, Joseph R, c1982
Book | Recommended | On Mission
Synopsis Historion - John SkylitzesDocument | Recommended | On Bulgaria.
Not available as of 30/07/2013 contact tutor if problem persists.
Seminar 5 – The Iconoclast Controversy (16 items)Question: Was Iconoclasm a political or a theological controversy?
Essential Reading (3 items)
State of Emergency (700–850) - M.-F AuzépyChapter | Core
Icons and Iconomachy - L. BrubakerChapter | Core
Theology of the icon - Mariamna Forounatto, Mary CunninghamChapter | Core | his is a brief and very useful recent overview.
General Reading (5 items)
Iconoclasm - Patricia Karlin-HayterChapter | Recommended
The Truth in Painting: Iconoclasm and Identity in Early-Medieval Art - Charles Barber, 1997Article | Recommended
The formation of Christendom - Herrin, Judith, 1989Book | Recommended | Chapter 8
The Context of Iconoclast Reform - Judith Herrin
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Chapter | Recommended
Images, iconoclasm, and the Carolingians - Noble, Thomas F. X., c2009Book | Recommended | esp. chapter 2
Sources (3 items)
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantine IconoclasmWebsite | Recommended | A rich selection of primary source accounts on Iconoclasm
On the divine images: three apologies against those who attack the divine images - St.John of Damascus, 1980
Book | Recommended | Read these for iconophile theory.They are very short andsuccinct.
Icon and logos: sources in eighth-century iconoclasm - Sahas, Daniel J., Council ofConstantinople, Council of Nicaea, 1986
Book | Recommended | Read for iconoclast position esp. the third to sixth ‘volumes’,80-151.
Further Reading (5 items)
Likeness and presence: a history of the image before the era of art - Belting, Hans,Jephcott, Edmund, c1994
Book | Additional
Byzantium in the iconoclast era c. 680-850: a history - Brubaker, Leslie, Haldon, John F.,2011
Book | Additional
Imago Dei: the Byzantine apologia for icons - Pelikán, Jaroslav, 1990Book | Additional
Icons and power - Bissera V. Pentcheva, 2006Book | Additional
Figure and Likeness - Charles Barber, September 23, 2002Book | Additional
Lecture 6 – Islam and the Mediterraean World (18 items)Essay question: What accounts for the success of Islam to to c.750?
Essential Reading (2 items)
Sources from: Muhammad and the believers: at the origins of IslamChapter | Core
Muhammad and the rise of Islam - C. Hillenbrand
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Chapter | Core
General topics (11 items)
The Arabs - L. ConradChapter | Recommended
The Great Arab Conquests: How The Spread Of Islam Changed The World We Live In - H.Kennedy, 2008
Book | Recommended
The first dynasty of Islam: the Umayyad caliphate A.D. 661-750 - Hawting, G. R., c1986Book | Recommended | esp. chs. 2-3, 8.
The Prophet and the age of the Caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to theeleventh century - Kennedy, Hugh, 2004
Book | Recommended
Hagarism: the making of the Islamic world - Crone, Patricia, Cook, Michael, 1977Book | Recommended | is highly stimulating, although controversial.
The new Cambridge history of Islam - M. A. Cook, 2008Book | Recommended | contains lots of interesting papers; Robinson’s own contribution
on early Islam is recommended for essays.
Islamic history: a framework for inquiry - Humphreys, R. Stephen, 1991Book | Recommended | pp. 69-103.
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | Recommended | Chapter 12
Muhammad and the believers: at the origins of Islam - Donner, Fred McGraw, 2010Book | Recommended | is ideosyncratic but thought-provoking.
· It it always worth looking at the Qur'an (e.g. suras 47 and 48), various editions areavailable. However, it does not contain much specific historical context.
An Historical atlas of Islam =: Atlas historique de l'Islam - Bel, Marc, Donck, Peter van der,2002
Book | Recommended
Specific topics (5 items)
The Quest of the Historical Muhammad - F. E. Peters, 1991Article | Additional
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Military pay and the economy of the early Islamic state - Hugh Kennedy, 2002-05Article | Additional
‘New rule over old structures: Egypt after the Muslim conquest’ - P.M. SijpesteijnChapter | Additional | is on the practicalities of Islamic rule in a single region.
Iraq after the Muslim conquest - Morony, Michael G., American Council of LearnedSocieties, c1984
Book | Additional | does something similar, but on a larger scale.
Abd al-Malik - Chase Robinson, April 2007Book | Additional
Seminar 6 – Muslim Spain (14 items)NB in this period 'Spain' usually refers to the entire Iberian peninsula, including what isnow Portugal. Al-Andalus refers to the area under Muslim political control.
In what sense was al-Andalus Islamic, c. 711 to c.900?
Essential Reading (2 items)
The transformation of Hispania after 711 - A. ChristysChapter | Core
Medieval Iberia: readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources - Constable, OliviaRemie, c1997
Book | Core | sources 6-9, 11
General background (2 items)
'The Iberian Peninsula and North Africa' - E. Manzano MorenoChapter | Recommended
Early medieval Spain: unity in diversity, 400-1000 - Collins, Roger, 1983Book | Recommended | chs 5-6. Ch. 7 gives an overview of the surviving Christian
polities
Muslim political power (3 items)
Muslim Spain and Portugal: a political history of al-Andalus - Kennedy, Hugh, 1996Book | Additional | chs. 1-3 gives more detail on political developments and structures.
The Muslim conquest and settlement of North Africa and Spain - Taha, Abdulwahid Dhanun, 1989
Book | Additional | covers the period to the establishment of Abdul Rahman I.
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The Arab conquest of Spain: 710-797 - Collins, Roger, Lynch, John, 1989Book | Additional
Communities and identities (6 items)
Moorish Spain - Fletcher, R. A., 1992Book | Additional | esp. ch. 3, 'The curve of conversion'.
Mothers of a Hybrid Dynasty: Race, Genealogy, and Acculturation in al-Andalus - D. F.Ruggles, 2004-01-01
Article | Additional
Muhammad as Antichrist in ninth-century Córdoba - K.B. WolfChapter | Additional
Sainthood and suicide: the motives of the martyrs of Córdoba A.D.850-859' - C.J. Drees,1990
Article | Additional
To explore the sources further, see:
Conquerors and chroniclers of early-medieval Spain - Wolf, Kenneth Baxter, 1990Book | Additional | compare the Chronicles of ‘754’ and ‘Alfonso III’.
Lecture 7 – The Carolingian Empire (30 items)Question: What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Carolingian empire?
Essential Reading: (1 items)
'Kingship and royal government' - J.L. NelsonChapter | Core
Further reading: (3 items)
The best general book on the Carolingians is now:
The Carolingian world - Costambeys, Marios, Innes, Matthew, MacLean, Simon, 2011Book | Recommended
Two lives of Charlemagne - David Ganz, Einhard, Notker, 2008Book | Recommended | an indispensable source, well worth reading in full (only 29
pages)
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A/ Expansion: to the death of Charlemagne: (7 items)
The age of Charles Martel - Fouracre, Paul, 2000Book | Additional | excellent for the early history of the Carolingian family and its rise to
power
‘Charlemagne’s government’ - M. InnesChapter | Additional
Two hugely important articles by T. Reuter, 'Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian empire'and 'The end of Carolingian military expansion', both in his:
Medieval polities and modern mentalities - Reuter, Timothy, Nelson, Janet L., 2006Book | Additional
Charlemagne: empire and society - Story, Joanna, 2005Book | Additional | ch. 2 to 7
Charlemagne - Collins, Roger, 1998Book | Additional | esp. on military matters
Charlemagne: the formation of a European identity - Rosamond McKitterick, 2008Book | Additional | chs. 1-2
B/ The later Carolingians: (11 items)
Carolingian civilization: a reader - Dutton, Paul Edward, 1993Book | Additional | 30. Louis the Pious's public penance in 822, 45. Nithard's History, 46.
Engelbert at the Battle of Fontenoy
Charlemagne's courtier: the complete Einhard - Einhard, Dutton, Paul Edward, 1998Book | Additional | Einhard's letters: Einhard caught in the middle of the division of
kingdoms: letter 53 (p. 157)
The penitential state: authority and atonement in the age of Louis the Pious, 814-840 - DeJong, Mayke, 2011
Book | Additional
The last years of Louis the Pious - J.L. NelsonChapter | Additional
Power and humility in Carolingian society: the public penance of Louis the Pious - MAYKEDE JONG, 2007-01-30
Article | Additional
Charles the Bald - Nelson, Janet L., 1992Book | Additional
Charles the Bald: court and kingdom - Gibson, Margaret, Nelson, Janet L., 1990
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Book | Additional
Struggle for empire: kingship and conflict under Louis the German, 817-876 - Goldberg,Eric Joseph, 2009
Book | Additional | excellent on the emergence of East Francia
Germany in the early Middle Ages c.800-1056 - Reuter, Timothy, 1991Book | Additional | pp. 115-126 on the deposition of Charles the Fat, the last Carolingian
emperor
'Charles the Fat and the Viking Great Army: the military explanation for the end of theCarolingian empire' - S. McLean, 1998
Article | Additional
Kingship and politics in the late ninth century: Charles the Fat and the end of theCarolingian Empire - MacLean, Simon, 2003
Book | Additional | especially important for the 'end' of the empire
C/ Carolingian ideology and Christian kingship: (8 items)
Mirrors for princes (2 items)
De ordine palatii - Hincmar, Gross, Thomas, Schieffer, Rudolf, 1980Book | Additional | (for a full translation, see 77. Hincmar of Rheims's On the
Government of the Palace Dutton, Carolingian Civilization: A Reader (2004).)
On Christian rulers, and the Poems - Sedulius, Sedulius, Doyle, Edward, 1983Book | Additional | also in Dutton, Carolingian Civilization, pp. 402-411
'Kingship and empire in the Carolingian world' - J.L. NelsonChapter | Additional
'The Lord's anointed and the people's choice: Carolingian royal ritual' - J.L. NelsonChapter | Additional
Charlemagne: the formation of a European identity - Rosamond McKitterick, 2008Book | Additional | chapters 3 to 5
‘Charlemagne and the aristocracy: captains and kings’ - S AirlieChapter | Additional
‘The aristocracy in the service of the state in the Carolingian period’ - S. AirlieChapter | Additional
‘Secular sanctity: forging an ethos for the Carolingian nobility’ - T.F.X. NobleChapter | Additional
Seminar 7 – Authority and consensus (29 items)
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Question: How far did the laws issued by Carolingian rulers connect with theexercise of justice in the localities?
Essential Reading: (2 items)
•J.L. Nelson, ‘The Lord’s anointed and the people’s choice: Carolingian royal ritual’, TheFrankish World, 750-900 (1996)
Chapter | Core
•J.L. Nelson, ‘How Carolingians created consensus’, in W. Falkowski and Y. Sassier eds, Lemonde carolingien: Bilan, perspectives, champs de recherches (Turnhout, 2009), 67-81
Chapter | Core
Further Reading: (27 items)
The making of English law: King Alfred to the twelfth century - Wormald, Patrick, 1999Book | Core | Source: Adrevald of Fleury's Miracles of Saint Benedict pp. 30-31, and his
discussion on pp. 70-72
Dispute Settlement in Carolingian West Francia - J.L. NelsonChapter | Core | reprinted in J.L. Nelson, The Frankish World (1996).
Adrevald of Fleury's Miracles of Saint BenedictChapter | Core | pp. 30-31, and his discussion on pp. 70-72
Chapter 5: Legislation and consensus in the reign of Charles the Bald - J.L. NelsonChapter | Core
The making of English law: King Alfred to the twelfth century - Wormald, Patrick, 1999Book | Recommended | pp. 29-92
The Carolingians and the written word - McKitterick, Rosamond, 1989Book | Recommended | ch. 2
Charlemagne: the formation of a European identity - Rosamond McKitterick, 2008Book | Recommended | ch. 4
‘Lex and capitula’ - R. McKitterickChapter | Recommended
‘Charlemagne’s government’ - M. InnesChapter | Recommended
‘Charlemagne, justice and written law’ - M. InnesChapter | Recommended
‘Laws and Formularies in Reichenau and St Gall manuscripts’ - A RioWebpage | Recommended | for a very quick introduction to Carolingian legal texts for
non-specialists
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Legal practice and the written word in the early middle ages: Frankish formulae, c.500-1000 - Rio, Alice, 2009
Book | Recommended | for further comment on the Adrevald of Fleury see pp. 200-201
‘Authors and recipients of Carolingian capitularies, 779-829’ - C PösselChapter | Recommended
‘A pattern for power: Charlemagne delegation of judicial responsiblities’ - J. DavisChapter | Recommended
The Uses of literacy in early medieval Europe - McKitterick, Rosamond, 1990Book | Recommended | reprinted in Nelson, The Frankish World (London, 1996)
ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT IN THE NINTH CENTURY: III, RIGHTS AND RITUALS - Janet L.Nelson, 2004-12
Article | Recommended
‘Judicial violence and torture in the Carolingian empire’ - P. GearyChapter | Recommended
‘Charlemagne’s settlement of disputes’ - J.R. DavisChapter | Recommended
‘Carolingian justice: the rhetoric of improvement and contexts of abuse’ - P. FouracreChapter | Recommended
A contrite heart: prosecution and redemption in the Carolingian empire - Firey, Abigail,2009
Book | Recommended
‘Blushing before the judge and physician: moral arbitration in the Carolingian empire’ - AFirey
Chapter | Recommended
Charters as weapons. On the role played by early medieval dispute records in the disputesthey record - Warren Brown, 2002-09
Article | Recommended
The Use of Norms in Disputes in Early Medieval Bavaria - W. BrownArticle | Recommended
Unjust seizure: conflict, interest, and authority in an early medieval society - Brown,Warren, 2001
Book | Recommended
The monastery of Sant'Ambrogio and dispute settlement in early medieval Milan - RossBALZARETTI, 2007-01-30
Article | Recommended
Disputes and courts in Lombard and Carolingian central Italy - Marios Costambeys,2007-07-13
Article | Recommended
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Law and the peasant: rural society and justice in Carolingian Italy - Giuseppe Albertoni,2010-11
Article | Recommended
Lecture 8 – The Making of Europe (23 items)Questions: Why did states first appear in northern and eastern Europe in the second half ofthe first millennium AD?
Essential Reading (2 items)
Empires and barbarians - Heather, P. J., 2010Book | Core | ch. 8, esp. pp. 419-51 (on KEATS).
Ibn Fadlan and the land of darkness: Arab travellers in the far north - Ahmad Ibn Fadlan,Paul Lunde, Caroline Stone, 2012
Book | Core | extracts on KEATS, although the whole book is well worth reading. Seealso the brief ‘Background Note’ on KEATS.
General (4 items)
The early Slavs - P. M. Barford, 2001Book | Recommended | chs.1-4 & 11-12
Review article: Franks and Slavs c.700-1000: the problem of European expansion beforethe millennium - Matthew Innes, 2003-02-26
Article | Recommended | a very clear review of some important work
The ancient Slavs: settlement and society - Martin Gojda, 1991Book | Recommended
Empires and barbarians - Heather, P. J., 2010Book | Recommended | chs. 9-10
Politics & Economics (7 items)
The origins of the European economy: communications and commerce, c.700-c.900 -McCormick, Michael, 2001
Book | Additional | on the slave trade
Bohemia and Poland: two examples of successful western Slavonic state-formation - JerzyStrzelczyk
Chapter | Additional
The emergence of Rus 750-1200 - Franklin, Simon, Shepard, Jonathan, 1996Book | Additional | chs. 1-3
Origins of Central Europe - 1997Book | Additional | a v. useful collection of essays, esp. those by Pohl, Parczewski,
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Kobylinski, Lubke, Kurnatovska, Dulinic, Heather.
Slavs and Bulgars - Jonathan ShepardChapter | Additional
The New Cambridge Medieval History - 2000Book | Additional | chs 10, 19-20
East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages - 2006Book | Additional | introduction, essays 1, 5, 7, 10 & 11
The role of Christianity (7 items)
Germany in the early Middle Ages c.800-1056 - Reuter, Timothy, 1991Book | Additional | pp. 253-264
The cross goes north: processes of conversion in northern Europe, AD 300-1300 - Carver,M. O. H., 2003
Book | Additional | esp. chapters by Urbańczyk, Mueller-Wille and Sanmark.
The missionary life: saints and the evangelisation of Europe, 400-1050 - Wood, Ian, 2001Book | Additional | part III and conclusion
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus'c.900-1200 - 2007
Book | Additional
Conversions compared: Vladimir of Rus and Boleslaw of the Poles - ShepherdChapter | Additional
The Christianization of Scandinavia: report of a symposium held at Kungälv, Sweden, 4-9August 1985 - Sawyer, Birgit, Sawyer, P. H., Wood, Ian, 1987
Book | Additional
‘“A Turmoil of Warring Princes”: Political Leadership in Ninth- Century Denmark’ - K.L.Maund, 1994
Article | Additional
Sources: (3 items)
Ottonian Germany: the chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg - Thietmar, Warner, David,2000
Book | Additional | oSlav uprising of 983: III, 17-19 (pp. 141-143);oPoland: the 'crowning'(?) of Boleslaw Chrobry by Otto III: IV, 45-46 (pp. 183-5); flashback:Mieszko I and the Christianisation of Poland: IV, 55-59 (pp. 191-193);othe Liutizi, pagan allies of Henry II of Germany: VI, 22-25 (pp. 252-4);oDanes: I, 17 (p. 80); II, 14 (pp. 101-2); VII, 36-39 (pp. 332-5);oRus': VII, 72-74 (pp. 357-9);obarbarian customs: Poles, Hungarians and Liutizi: VIII, 1-6 (pp. 361-365).
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The Russian primary chronicle: Laurentian text - Nestor, Cross, Samuel Hazzard,Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Olgerd P., 1953
Book | Additional | years 980, 983, and 986-8 (pp. 93-4, 95-8, 110-17)
De administrando imperio - Constantine, Moravcsik, Gyula, 1967, 1985 printingBook | Additional | account of the 9th c. Rus
Seminar 8 – Vikings (13 items)Question: Assess the impact of the vikings on the Frankish empire.
Essential Reading (2 items)
The Frankish Empire - J.L. NelsonChapter | Core | the rest of the book is also well worth looking at, especially Sawyer’s
chapter
Carolingian civilization: a reader - Dutton, Paul Edward, 1993Book | Core | Extracts
General topics (6 items)
Empires and barbarians - Heather, P. J., 2010Book | Recommended | Chapter 9
Allies of God or Man? The Viking Expansion in a European Perspective - Niels Lund, 1989Article | Recommended
The New Cambridge Medieval History - 1995Book | Recommended | chs by Lund and Coupland
The age of the Vikings - Sawyer, P. H., 1971Book | Recommended | esp. ch. 5
Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe AD 700-1100 - Sawyer, P. H., 1982Book | Recommended | chs 6-7
The Viking world - Stefan Brink, Neil S. Price, 2012Book | Recommended | esp. ch. 33
Specific topics (5 items)
The Vikings on the Continent in Myth and History - Simon Coupland, 2003-04Article | Additional
'Charles the Fat and the Viking Great Army: the military explanation for the end of theCarolingian empire' - S. McLean, 1998
Article | Additional
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ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT IN THE NINTH CENTURY: II, THE VIKINGS AND OTHERS -Janet L. Nelson, 2003-12
Article | Additional
From poachers to gamekeepers: Scandinavian warlords and Carolingian kings - SimonCoupland, 2003-02-26
Article | Additional
The Rod of God's Wrath or the People of God' Wrath ? The Carolingian Theology of theViking Invasions - Simon Coupland, 1991-10
Article | Additional
Lecture 9 – Family problems (30 items)Question: Was the early medieval family primarily a place of protection or discipline?
Essential reading: (3 items)
The Power of Women through the Family in Medieval Europe: 500-1100 - Jo Ann McNamaraand Suzanne Wemple, 1973
Article | Core | originally found in M. Erler and M. Kowaleski, Women and Power in theMiddle Ages (1988), 83-101
‘Women and laws in early medieval Europe’ - J.L. Nelson, A. RioChapter | Core
La Mutation Familiale: a suitable case for caution - P StaffordChapter | Core
Supplementary Reading (27 items)
Women and the Norman Conquest - Pauline Stafford, 1994Article | Recommended
The wary widow - J.L. NelsonChapter | Recommended | For a less rosy picture of Carolingian women's position as
property-owners than Duby's or Herlihy's
Family, gender and sexuality - J.L. NelsonChapter | Recommended | historiographical essay, excellent but difficult, so you may
want to wait until you've read a few other things
Did Women Have a Transformation of the Roman World? - Julia M. H. Smith, 2000-11Article | Recommended
Gender, family and the legitimation of power: England from the ninth to early twelfthcentury - Stafford, Pauline, c2006
Book | Recommended
The development of the family and marriage in Europe - Goody, Jack, 1983
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Book | Recommended
Book reviews - Charles Kemp, Tom Brass, David D. Buck, Chris Wickham, Keith Wrightson,Ian Roxborough, Colin Murray, 1986-10
Article | Recommended | C.J. Wickham, review of Goody's book on the development offamily and marriage, Journal of Peasant Studies 14, 1986, 129-34.
A Family of the Barcelona Countryside...around the year 1000 - P. BonnassieChapter | Recommended
‘Marriage rules’ - D. D’AvrayChapter | Recommended
Law, sex, and Christian society in medieval Europe - Brundage, James A., 1987Book | Recommended | esp. chs. 4 to 7
Medieval households - Herlihy, David, 1985Book | Recommended
LAND, FAMILY AND WOMEN IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE, 701-1200 - DAVID HERLIHY, 1962Article | Recommended | reprinted in S.M. Stuard (ed.), Women in Medieval Society
(1976) - on the ninth to eleventh centuries as a 'woman's world'
Love and marriage in the Middle Ages - Duby, Georges, Dunnett, Jane, 1994Book | Recommended | ch. 1, 6 and 7
Monks, secular men and masculinity - J.L. NelsonChapter | Recommended | pp. 121-142
'Women and Power' - G DubyChapter | Recommended
Early Medieval Social Groupings: The Terminology of Kinship - D. A. Bullough, 1969Article | Recommended
Rule and conflict in an early medieval society: Ottonian Saxony - Leyser, Karl, 1979Book | Recommended | esp. 9-22.
Predatory kinship and the creation of Norman power 840-1066 - Searle, Eleanor, c1988Book | Recommended | parts 3, 5, and conclusion
`Family Structure and Family Consciousness among the Aristocracy in the Ninth toEleventh Centuries' - C. Bouchard, 1986
Article | Recommended
The Making of the Medieval, Family: Symmetry, Structure, and Sentiment - Herlihy, David,Summer 1983
Article | Recommended
The Family and Religious Ideologies in Medieval Europe - Herlihy, David, Jan 1, 1987Article | Recommended
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Sex and the penitentials: the development of a sexual code, 550-1150 - Payer, Pierre J.,c1984
Book | Recommended
Early medieval regulations concerning marital sexual relations - Pierre J. Payer, 1980-01Article | Recommended
Childhood in the middle ages - Shahar, Shulamith, 1990Book | Recommended
'Parents, children, and the church in the earlier Middle Ages’ - J.L. NelsonChapter | Recommended
…and for the later medieval end of things
'Burdens of matrimony: husbanding and gender in medieval Italy' - S.M. StuardChapter | Recommended
Seminar 9 – Duby and the 'Mutation Familiale' (13 items)Question: Did the position of women in western Europe change fundamentally during theeleventh and twelfth centuries?
Essential Reading: (2 items)
Medieval marriage: two models from twelfth-century France - Duby, Georges, Forster,Elborg, American Council of Learned Societies, c1991
Book | Core | ch.1
Gender negotiations in France during the central middle ages - L. PatersonChapter | Core
Supplementary reading (8 items)
'Modern Mythologies of Medieval Chivalry' - D. BarthélemyChapter | Recommended
The world of the troubadours: medieval Occitan society, c. 1100-c. 1300 - Paterson, LindaM., 1993
Book | Recommended
The meaning of courtly love: papers of the first annual conference of the Center forMedieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghampton,March 17-18, 1967 - Newman, F. X., State University of New York at Binghamton, Centerfor Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies Annual Conference, c1968
Book | Recommended
'The Culture of the Knightly Class: Audience and Patronage' - G. Duby
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Chapter | Recommended
The new knighthood: a history of the Order of the Temple - Barber, Malcolm, 1995Book | Recommended
The three orders: feudal society imagined - Duby, Georges, 1980Book | Recommended
Love and marriage in the Middle Ages - Duby, Georges, Dunnett, Jane, 1994Book | Recommended | ch. 4
Ennobling love: in search of a lost sensibility - Jaeger, C. Stephen, c1999Book | Recommended
On the Gregorian reform movement (3 items)
The Herrenfrage: the restructuring of the gender system, 1050-1150 - J.A. McNamaraChapter | Additional
Angels incarnate: clergy and masculinity from Gregorian Reform to Reformation - R.N.Swanson
Chapter | Additional
Spiritual marriage: sexual abstinence in medieval wedlock - Elliott, Dyan, American Councilof Learned Societies, c1993
Book | Additional
Lecture 10 – The year 1000: where did it all go wrong? (26 items)Question: Was there a ‘mutation of the year 1000’?
Essential reading (4 items)
The "Feudal Revolution" - T. N. Bisson, 1994Article | Core
The "Feudal Revolution" - Dominique Barthélemy and Stephen D. White, 1996Article | Core
The 'Feudal Revolution' - Timothy Reuter and Chris Wickham, 1997Article | Core
The 'Feudal Revolution': Reply - T. N. Bisson, 1997Article | Core
Supplementary reading (2 items)
The feudal transformation: 900-1200 - Poly, Jean-Pierre, Bournazel, Eric, 1991Book | Recommended | for the classic view of the feudal revolution / privatisation of
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power as formulated by the French school
The serf, the knight, and the historian - Barthélemy, Dominique, Edwards, Graham, 2009Book | Recommended | for criticism of above view
The peasantry (9 items)
Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 - Wickham, Chris,2005
Book | Additional | esp. chapters 5 and 9
'Aspects of the peasant economy' - Y MorimotoChapter | Additional
The Other Transition: From the Ancient World to Feudalism - Chris Wickham, 1984Article | Additional
Living in the tenth century: mentalities and social orders - Fichtenau, Heinrich, Geary,Patrick J., c1991
Book | Additional | ch. 15 and 16
'Rural economy and country life' - R FossierChapter | Additional | 10th century: the gloomy view
The new Cambridge medieval history: Vol. 4: c. 1024-c. 1198 - Luscombe, D. E.,Riley-Smith, Jonathan Simon Christopher, 2004
Book | Additional | part 1, ch. 1
'Rural economy and society' - C BouchardChapter | Additional
DUBY'S ELEVENTH CENTURY - R. I. MOORE, 1984-01Article | Additional
'The banal seigneury and the "reconditioning" of the free peasantry' - P BonnassieChapter | Additional | ch. 7
Aristocracy, knighthood and nobility (11 items)
‘Nobles and others: the social and cultural expression of power relations in the MiddleAges’ - T Reuter
Chapter | Additional
Knightly Society - Jean FloriChapter | Additional
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350 - Bartlett,Robert, 1994
Book | Additional | esp. ch. 2 ‘The Aristocratic Diaspora’, and ch. 3 ‘Military technologyand political power’
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‘Youth in Aristocratic Society’ - G DubyChapter | Additional | a classic paper. (Others sections in this book are also useful.)
Reflections on the Medieval German Nobility - John B. Freed, 1986Article | Additional
The French Aristocracy in the Early Middle Ages: A Reappraisal - Jane Martindale, 1977Article | Additional
The medieval nobility: studies on the ruling classes of France and Germany from the sixthto the twelfth century - Reuter, Timothy, 1979
Book | Additional | this volume also contains other useful essays, esp. by Bosl.
Nobles and nobility in medieval Europe: concepts, origins, transformations - Duggan, Anne,2000
Book | Additional | contains several useful contributions, esp. by Le Jan, Nelson, Bisson
'The aristocracy' - S AirlieChapter | Additional | on the ninth-century aristocracy.
‘The Medieval Nobility in Twentieth-Century Historiography’ - T ReuterChapter | Additional
‘Nobles and knights in twelfth-century France’ - T EvergatesChapter | Additional
Seminar 10 – Slaves and serfs (10 items)Question: When did slavery become serfdom?
Essential Reading (2 items)
'On servile status in the early middle ages' - W DaviesChapter | Core
'The survival and extinction of the system of slavery in the early medieval West, fourth toeleventh centuries' - P Bonnassie
Chapter | Core | HEALTH WARNING: some highly problematic conclusions here
Further Reading (8 items)
'How ancient slavery came to an end' - M BlochChapter | Recommended
The serf, the knight, and the historian - Barthélemy, Dominique, Edwards, Graham, 2009Book | Recommended | ch. 3 and 4
Freedom and Unfreedom in Early Medieval Francia: The Evidence of the Legal Formulae -A. Rio, 2006-11-01
Article | Recommended
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Serfdom and the beginnings of a ‘seigneurial system'in the Carolingian period: a survey ofthe evidence - HANS-WERNER GOETZ, 2007-01-30
Article | Recommended
The Decline of Slavery and the Economic Expansion of the Early Middle Ages - Reviewby: Adriaan Verhulst, 1991
Article | Recommended
New Light on the 'Dark Ages': How the Slave Trade Fuelled the Carolingian Economy - M.McCormick, 2002-11-01
Article | Recommended
Slavery or freedom? The causes of early medieval Europe's economic advancement -Joachim Henning, 2004-07-27
Article | Recommended
Marmoutier and Its Serfs in the Eleventh Century - Paul Fouracre, 2005Article | Recommended
Lecture 11 – The Eastern Mediterranean: Normans, Byzantines andcrusaders (33 items)Question: 'The Crusades, far from being an unprovoked act of religious violence, were partof an ongoing war...between Christians and Muslims for control of the Mediterranean' (B.Hamilton). Do you agree?
Essential reading (2 items)
‘Ideology and motivations in the First Crusade’ - J FloriChapter | Core | This also contains a very useful chronology.
The Crusades: a very short introduction - Christopher Tyerman, 2005Book | Core | ch. 5, ‘Holy War’.
Further reading (3 items)
The Normans in Europe - Houts, Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van, 2000Book | Recommended | full of short extracts from primary sources, essential for an
essay!
Internet Medieval Sourcebook Selected Sources: The CrusadesWebpage | Recommended | plenty more sources
The Crusades from the perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim world - Laiou, Angeliki E,Mottahedeh, Roy P., c2001
Book | Recommended
A/ Christians and Muslims in Spain (7 items)
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Sources (2 items)
Historia Roderici [= Rodrigo Diaz, El Cid], ch. 7-25, 37-42, and 62Chapter | Recommended | translated on pp. 104-112, 122-28, and 137-138
The poem of the Cid: a new critical edition of the Spanish text - Michael, Ian, Hamilton,Rita, Perry, Janet, 1975
Book | Recommended | pp. 87-95, pp. 107-117 (compare above, Historia Roderici 62)
Bibliography (5 items)
Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150 - R. A. Fletcher, 1987Article | Additional
The medieval Spains - Reilly, Bernard F., 1993Book | Additional
Reconquest and crusade in medieval Spain - O'Callaghan, Joseph F., c2003Book | Additional
The quest for El Cid - Fletcher, R. A., 1989Book | Additional
'At the Spanish Frontier' - P LinehanChapter | Additional
B/ The Normans in Italy (5 items)
Sources (1 items)
The Normans in Europe - Houts, Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van, 2000Book | Recommended | pp. 232-7 (Radolphus Glaber, William of Apulia), pp. 243-4
(Robert Guiscard's pledge to Pope Nicholas I), pp. 250-3 (Anna Comnena's Alexiad)
Bibliography (4 items)
Italy in the central Middle Ages: 1000-1300 - Abulafia, David, 2004Book | Additional | ch. 2
The Norman kingdom of Sicily - Matthew, Donald, 1992Book | Additional
HOW 'NORMAN' WAS THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF SOUTHERN ITALY? - Loud, G A, Jan 1,1981
Article | Additional
Coinage, Wealth and Plunder in the Age of Robert Guiscard - G. A. Loud, 1999Article | Additional
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Sources (1 items)
The complete works of Liudprand of Cremona - Liudprand, Squatriti, Paolo, c2007Book | Recommended | oon the wonders of Constantinople and the court of Constantine
VII Porphyrogenitus: Antapodosis VI, 5-9, pp. 197-200oon a later embassy to a hostile emperor (Nikephoros Phokas): Embassy toConstantinople, pp. 238-247oHow the Byzantine emperor Alexios I confronted the First Crusade in an account writtenby his daughter, Anna: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad11.asp
Bibliography (9 items)
Byzantium: the surprising life of a medieval empire - Herrin, Judith, 2007Book | Additional | ch. 19-24 - a charming introduction
The Byzantines - Cameron, Averil, 2006Book | Additional | for a handy, brief narrative from late antiquity to 1453, see ch. 2 and
3
Byzantium and the West, c.850-c.1200: proceedings of the 18th Spring Symposium ofByzantine Studies, Oxford 30 March-1st April 1984 - Howard-Johnston, J. D., SpringSymposium of Byzantine Studies, 1966
Book | Additional
The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade - P. Magdalino, 1996Book | Additional
Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204 - Lilie, Ralph-Johannes, Morris, J. C.,Ridings, Jean E., 1993
Book | Additional
The Historiography of the Crusades - Giles ConstableChapter | Additional
Look at the entire book and also to
The crusades: Islamic perspectives - Hillenbrand, Carole, c1999Book | Additional | to get a more balanced view of the Crusades.
A History of the Crusades - K.M. SettonBook | Additional | A classic multi-volume work on the Crusades
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Sources (1 items)
The Crusades: a reader - Allen, S. J., Amt, Emilie, [2003?]Book | Recommended | othe crusade that never was: in 1074, Gregory VII calls Western
Christians (to their complete indifference) to come to the aid of the Byzantines after theirdefeat by the Turks at Manzikert (pp. 34-35)oUrban II and the First Crusade: pp. 39-47, 57-66; the fall of Jerusalem: pp. 73-80oBernard of Clairvaux's preaching of the Second Crusade: pp. 134-138oSaladin, the battle of Hattin and the recapture of Jerusalem: pp. 148-166othe Third Crusade: pp. 170-177othe Knights Templar: pp. 197-204owomen crusaders: pp. 211-213oInnocent III, the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople: pp. 221-240
Bibliography (5 items)
The Crusades: the essential readings - Madden, Thomas F., 2002Book | Additional | is a helpful collection in one volume of some of the most important
articles - read especially chapters 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10
The Motives of the Earliest Crusaders and the Settlement of Latin Palestine, 1095-1100 -Jonathan Riley-Smith, 1983
Article | Additional
The crusades: a history - Riley-Smith, Jonathan, 2005Book | Additional
'What the Crusades meant to Europe' - C.J. TyermanChapter | Additional
God's war: a new history of the Crusades - Tyerman, Christopher, 2007Book | Additional
Seminar 11 – Outremer: the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem (15 items)Essay questions (a choice of two): (a) Why did it prove impossible to sustain theachievements of the First Crusade? (b) Were the Latin settlements in the Levant 'the firstEuropean colonies'?
Essential Reading: (2 items)
Sources in ‘The Kingdom of Jerusalem’ sectionWebpage | Core
The Latin East, 1098–1205 - Hans Eberhard Mayer
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Chapter | Core
Further Reading: (13 items)
Crusading and the crusader states - Jotischky, Andrew, 2004Book | Additional | chapters 3 (starting from p. 62), 4, 5 and 6
'The subjected Muslims of the Frankish Levant' - B. KedarChapter | Additional
The crusades: a history - Riley-Smith, Jonathan, 2005Book | Additional | chapter 4
The new Cambridge medieval history: Vol. 4: c. 1024-c. 1198 - Luscombe, D. E.,Riley-Smith, Jonathan Simon Christopher, 2004
Book | Additional | chapter 21 (Mayer)
The Leper King and his Heirs - Bernard Hamilton, July 7, 2005Book | Additional | chapter 3
Frankish rural settlement in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem - Ellenblum, Ronnie, 1998Book | Additional | ch. 1 and 2
Defenders of the Holy Land: relations between the Latin East and the West, 1119-1187 -Phillips, Jonathan, 1996
Book | Additional | chapter 7
The Crusades: the essential readings - Madden, Thomas F., 2002Book | Additional | chapters by Kedar and Elisseef
Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusades: Society, Landscape and Art in the Holy City underFrankish Rule [ - Adrian J. Boas
Book | Additional | part I
Monarchy and lordships in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099-1291 - Steven Tibble,1989
Book | Additional
Outremer: Studies on the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem - 1982Book | Additional
The Latin Church in the Crusader states - Bernard Hamilton, 1980Book | Additional
Crusader institutions - Prawer, Joshua, 1980Book | Additional
Lecture 12 Popes, emperors and city-states (25 items)
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Essay question: 1) Why did German kings make such efforts to be crowned as emperors? OR 2) What influenced the attitudes of popes towards German rulers?
Essential Reading (2 items)
The papal monarchy: the western church from 1050 to 1250 - Morris, Colin, 1989Book | Core | chs. 5 & 8. The whole book is available online via the 'Online Resource'
button, and well worth reading further.
The medieval German Sonderweg? The empire and its rulers in the high middle ages - T.Reuter
Chapter | Core | [Note that Sonderweg refers to the notion in modern historiographythat German history is somehow distinct from those of other areas of Europe, in practiceespecially England and France.]
Further Reading Sources (6 items)
Selected Sources: Empire and PapacyWebpage | Additional | Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Crisis of church and state, 1050-1300 - Tierney, Brian, 1988Book | Additional | contains lots of helpful short texts.
The complete works of Liudprand of Cremona - Liudprand, Squatriti, Paolo, 2007Book | Additional | esp. pp. 63-64 (the dug-up corpse of Pope Formosus is put on trial),
pp. 96-7, pp. 219-37 (German rulers vs popes).
The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century - Ian Robinson, 2004Book | Additional | contains lots of interesting sources, including Bonizo of Sutri, ‘To a
Friend’.
The deeds of Frederick Barbarossa - Otto, Rahewin, Mierow, Charles Christopher, Emery,Richard Wilder, 1994
Book | Additional | esp. pp. 181-200 and 252-272. Otto was bishop of Freising, and anuncle of Frederick Barbarossa. He aimed to present Frederick in a good light, but providesa vivid and fairly even-handed narrative.
The Oxford dictionary of popes - Kelly, J. N. D., Walsh, Michael J., 2010Book | Additional | is a very useful reference.
Further Reading: The Papacy (10 items)
The lands of St Peter: the Papal State in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance -Partner, Peter, 1972
Book | Additional
The papacy 1073-1198: continuity and innovation - Robinson, I. S., 1990Book | Additional
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The papacy, 1122-1198 - I.S. RobinsonChapter | Additional
The papacy - J.A. WattChapter | Additional
Medieval Germany and its neighbours, 900-1250 - Leyser, K. J., 1982Book | Additional
Crusades against Christians: their Origins and Early Development, c. 1000-1216Chapter | Additional | is on how popes attempted to use the language of crusades
against European political opponents, including emperors and their supporters.
The polemics of the papal revolution - K. LeyserChapter | Additional
Two brief overviews:
The two cities: medieval Europe, 1050-1320 - Barber, Malcolm, 1992Book | Additional
The bishops of Rome, 1100–1300 - A. PerronChapter | Additional
Further Reading: The Empire (7 items)
The crisis of medieval Germany - K. LeyserChapter | Additional
Frederick Barbarossa and the Hohenstaufen Polity - Leyser, Karl J, 1988Article | Additional
The Ottonians as kings and emperors - E. Müller-MertensChapter | Additional
The western empire, 1125-1197 - B. ArnoldChapter | Additional
The ‘Imperial Church System’ of the Ottonian and Salian Rulers: a Reconsideration -Timothy Reuter, 1982
Article | Additional
Contextualising Canossa - T. ReuterChapter | Additional
Henry IV of Germany 10561106 - I. S. Robinson, 2003Book | Additional
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Seminar 12 Innocent III and Frederick II (13 items)Essay question: What shaped relations between Innocent III and Frederick II?
Essential Reading: (2 items)
Crisis of church and state, 1050-1300 - Tierney, Brian, c1988Book | Core | pp. 127-149
The Papal and Imperical Concept of plenitudo potestatis: The Influence of Pope Innocent IIIon Emperor Frederick II - H.-J. Schmidt
Chapter | Core
Further reading: (11 items)
Frederick II: a medieval emperor - Abulafia, David, 2002Book | Additional
Frederick the Second: 1194-1250 - Kantorowicz, Ernst Hartwig, Lorimer, E. O., 1931Book | Additional | this classic study is still worth looking at.
The Liber Augustalis, or, Constitutions of Melfi - Powell, James M., Frederick, Sicily (Italy),c1971
Book | Additional | pp. 1-10
'The politics of Innocent III' - K. PenningtonChapter | Additional
The papal monarchy: the western church from 1050 to 1250 - Morris, Colin, 1989Book | Additional
Gregory IX, Frederick II and the Constitution of Melfi - K. PenningtonChapter | Additional
Pope Innocent III and his world - Moore, John C., Bolton, Brenda, c1999Book | Additional
Innocent III: leader of Europe 1198-1216 - Sayers, Jane E., 1994Book | Additional
Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250) and the political particularism of the German princes -Benjamin Arnold, 2000-09
Article | Additional
The marriage of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily: prelude and consequences - W. FröhlichChapter | Additional
See also the relevant NCMH chapters, in the lecture reading list, above.
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Lecture 13 – Intellectual life (25 items)Essay questions: How did intellectual life change between the late tenth and thirteenthcenturies?
Essential Reading (2 items)
The first European revolution - Moore, R. I., 2000Book | Core | ch. 4, ‘The Ruling Culture’.
Some short extracts from Online Medieval Sourcebook (one of very few reliable medievalonline resources!):
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/richer1.asp (Late C10th scholarly life)
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/courcon1.asp (Statutes of University of Paris, 1215)
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/1224fred2-lictgen.asp (Establishment of Universityof Naples by Frederick II, 1244)
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/uparis-theol.asp (University of Paris courses 1270s)
For a taste of C12th scholarly life, see Abelard (seminar reading).
Further Reading: General (19 items)Many of these are on Google Books.
These are the best three wide-ranging studies, Le Goff and Southern deal with intellectuallife and social/political context:
Intellectuals in the Middle Ages - Le Goff, Jacques, 1992Book | Additional
Scholastic humanism and the unification of Europe: Vol.1: Foundations - Southern, R. W.,1994
Book | Additional | esp. chs 4-6; vol. 2: The Heroic Age (2001), esp. ch. 8.
Medieval foundations of the Western intellectual tradition, 400-1400 - Colish, Marcia L.,1997
Book | Additional | chs. 20-22
These are also general texts:
Heretics and scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200 - Fichtenau, Heinrich, c1998Book | Additional | deals with accusations of heresy amongst clerics, and links with next
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Reason and society in the Middle Ages - Murray, Alexander, 1978Book | Additional | is stimulating on the links between intellectual life and social change.
The implications of literacy: written language and models of interpretation in the eleventhand twelfth centuries - Stock, Brian, 1983
Book | Additional | looks at how increasing literacy affects social life.
As always, the relevant chapters of the New Cambridge Medieval History offer a reliableoverview:
Intellectual life - C. LeonardiChapter | Additional
Thought and learning - D. LuscombeChapter | Additional
The development of law - P. LandauChapter | Additional
The universities and scholasticism - J. VergerChapter | Additional
On institutional developments:
Ottonian intellectual culture in the tenth century and the role of Theophanu - RosamondMcKitterick, 2007-01-30
Article | Additional | looks at the late tenth century, when scholarship still revolved farmore around royal courts than it would later.
Intellectual culture in medieval Paris - Ian P. Wei, 2012Book | Additional
The First Universities: Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe- Olaf Pedersen
Book | Additional
The Origins of University - Stephen Ferruolo, 1985Book | Additional
The Kingdom of Sicily and the Early University Movement - P. OldfieldArticle | Additional
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Further Reading: The Concept of Renaissances (4 items)
On the limits of the Carolingian renaissance - J.L.NelsonChapter | Additional | Also available as a journal (Studies in Church History 14 (1977),
51-67).
What does the Twelfth-Century Renaissance mean? - J. Le GoffChapter | Additional
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance - Swanson, R. N., 1999Book | Additional
Renaissances before the Renaissance: cultural revivals of late antiquity and the middleages - Treadgold, Warren T., 1984
Book | Additional
Seminar 13 Abelard and Heloise (10 items)Essay question: Why did Peter Abelard’s career encounter so much controversy?
Essential Reading (2 items)
The letters of Abelard and Heloise - Abelard, Peter, Héloïse, Radice, Betty, Clanchy, M. T.,2003
Book | Core | Autobiography: Abelard, History of my Misfortunes (Historia calamitatum):letter 1,pp. 3-43; see also Heloise's response to Abelard's account in letter 2 and also letter 4
The Council of Sens (1141): Abelard, Bernard, and the Fear of Social Upheaval - Constant J.Mews, 2002
Article | Core
Further Reading (8 items)
Heresy and authority in medieval Europe: documents in translation - Peters, Edward, 1980Book | Additional | documents 13 & 14 on Peter Abelard.
Women writers of the Middle Ages: a critical study of texts from Perpetua ( 203) toMarguerite Porete ( 1310) - Dronke, Peter, 1984
Book | Additional | ch. 5 on Heloise.
The Council of Sens Reconsidered: Masters, Monks, or Judges? - Wim Verball, 2005Article | Additional
The autobiography of Abelard and medieval individualism - Sverre Bagge, 1993Article | Additional
Abelard: a medieval life - Clanchy, M. T., 1997Book | Additional | esp. part I.
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Jesus as mother: studies in the spirituality of the High Middle Ages - Bynum, CarolineWalker, 1984
Book | Additional | chapter 3 (pp. 82-109).
Consciousness of self and representations of individuality' - J.F. BentonChapter | Additional
The implications of literacy: written language and models of interpretation in the eleventhand twelfth centuries - Stock, Brian, 1983
Book | Additional | ch. IV.2.
Lecture 14 – Heresy and Reform (36 items)Essay questions: 1) In what sense did the church ‘reform’, c.1000 to c.1215?OR 2) What created heresy in western Europe during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries?
Essential Reading (3 items)
The formation of a persecuting society: power and deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250- Moore, R. I., 1987
Book | Core | esp. pp. 6-27. Online resource is available for the 2007 edition, howevertutor recommends 1987 edition.
‘Religious poverty and the search for perfection’ - B. Mayne KienzleChapter | Core
Cathars in Question - Antonio Sennis, 2016Book | Core
Further Reading (33 items)
As always, there are relevant chapters in NCMH 4 and 5.
Changes in monasticism, and the establishment of the friars (early C13) were crucial:
Religious poverty and the profit economy in medieval Europe - Little, Lester K., 1978Book | Additional | is a crucial text, highly recommended, on the religious responses to
social and economic change. Parts are on KEATS. Essential for an essay on this topic.
Social Meaning in the Monastic and Mendicant Spiritualities - Barbara H. Rosenwein andLester K. Little, 1974
Article | Additional | is also very good.
Hermits and the new monasticism: a study of religious communities in Western Europe
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1000-1150 - Leyser, Henrietta, 1984Book | Additional
The friars: the impact of the early mendicant movement on Western society - Lawrence, C.H., 1994
Book | Additional
Saint Francis of Assisi - Le Goff, Jacques, 2003Book | Additional
The coming of the friars - Brooke, Rosalind B., 1975Book | Additional | is a collection of sources.
Other elements of the official church:
The papal monarchy: the western church from 1050 to 1250 - Morris, Colin, 1989Book | Additional | the whole book is available via the 'Online Resource' button, and
well worth reading further.
A new eyewitness account of the Fourth Lateran CouncilChapter | Additional
Fourth Lateran Council (1215)Webpage | Additional
The church in western Europe from the tenth to the early twelfth century - Tellenbach,Gerd, 1993
Book | Additional
On heresy (see also seminar reading, below):
Medieval heresy: popular movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation -Lambert, Malcolm David, 1992
Book | Additional | is a comprehensive guide to all heresies in this period. 2002 editionalso fine.
Heresies of the high Middle Ages: selected sources - Wakefield, Walter L., Evans, Austin P.,1969
Book | Additional | ) is available online via KCL library catalogue. An excellent collectionof short primary sources on heresy. Essential for the heresy essay.
Heresy and authority in medieval Europe: documents in translation - Peters, Edward, 1980Book | Additional | is in part on Google books.
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The birth of popular heresy - Moore, R. I., 1975Book | Additional
Through a glass darkly: seeing medieval heresy - P. BillerChapter | Additional
Goodbye to Waldensianism? - P. Biller, 2006Article | Additional
Popular heresy and popular violence, 1022-1179 - R.I.Moore, 1984Article | Additional
Literacy and the making of heresy, c.1000-c.1150 - R.I. MooreChapter | Additional
The early Humiliati - Andrews, Frances, 1999Book | Additional
Christendom and its discontents: exclusion, persecution and rebellion, 1000-1500 - Waugh,Scott L., Diehl, Peter D., 1996
Book | Additional
Medieval Heresy: An Anthropological View - Talal Asad, 1986Article | Additional
On the official church's response to (what it saw as) heresy:
The medieval Inquisition - Hamilton, Bernard, 1981Book | Additional
The war against heresy in medieval Europe - R. I. Moore, 2008-05Article | Additional
The formation of a persecuting society: power and deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250- Moore, R. I., 1987
Book | Additional | or 1st edn. (1987); the editions don’t differ very much, the earlierone is fine.
The war on heresy: faith and power in medieval Europe - R. I. Moore, 2012Book | Additional | is in large part on Google Books.
Order & Exclusion - Dominique Iogna-Prat, 2003Book | Additional
on Iogna-Prat's book, see link below for the debate in Early Medieval Europe 13:4 (2005),pp. 385-418 (NB you may find you can't access this off-campus):
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Early Medieval Europe - 2005Journal | Additional
The spiritual Franciscans: from protest to persecution in the century after Saint Francis -Burr, David, 2001
Book | Additional
Seminar 14 - The Cathars (12 items)Question: Was Catharism a distinct religious movement?
Essential Reading (2 items)
Heresies of the High Middle Ages: selected sources - Wakefield, Walter L., Evans, Austin P.,1969
Book | Core | •W.L. Wakefield and A.P. Evans (eds.), Heresies of the High Middle Ages(1969), esp. ‘The Origins of the Cathars in Italy’, ‘Bonacursus: A Description of theCatharist Heresy’ (pp. 163ff.) and ‘A Description of Cathars and Waldenses by Peter ofVaux-de-Cernay (pp. 235ff.) (But if you look further then so much the better, this isessential for an essay on the Cathars). This isn’t on KEATS, but is available online via the'Online Resource' button.
On Cathars, Albigenses, and good men of Languedoc - Mark Gregory Pegg, 2001Article | Core
Further Reading (10 items)
The Albigensian Crusade and Heresy - B. HamiltonChapter | Additional
The formation of a persecuting society: power and deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250- Moore, R. I., 1987
Book | Additional | or 2nd edn (2007); the two versions are almost identical.
The Cathars - Lambert, Malcolm David, 1998Book | Additional
The Cathars: dualist heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages - Barber, Malcolm,2000
Book | Additional
Inquisition and power: Catharism and the confessing subject in medieval Languedoc -Arnold, John, c2001
Book | Additional
The Inquisitors of Languedoc and the Medieval Technology of Power - James Given, 1989Article | Additional
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Power & purity: Cathar heresy in Medieval Italy - Carol Lansing, 1998Book | Additional
The corruption of angels: the great inquisition of 1245-1246 - Pegg, Mark Gregory, 2001Book | Additional
A most holy war - Mark Gregory Pegg, 2008Book | Additional
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324 - Le Roy Ladurie,Emmanuel, Bray, Barbara, 1978
Book | Additional | is the classic study on the Cathars, although it focuses on a muchlater period.
Lecture 15 – Social and Economic Life: Western Europe (24 items)Essay question: Did the growth of the rural economy fuel that of the urban economy, orvice-versa?
Essential Reading (2 items)
Before the industrial revolution: European society and economy, 1000-1700 - Cipolla, CarloM., 1981
Book | Core | probably best to start with this.
Economy - D. NicholsChapter | Core
Further Reading (22 items)
1/ Agriculture, and the rural economy (5 items)
Rural economy and country life in the medieval West - Duby, Georges, 1968Book | Additional
Peasant life in the medieval West - Robert Fossier, 1988Book | Additional
Peasants in the Middle Ages - Rösener, Werner, Stützer, Alexander, 1992Book | Additional
The Landlord and the Economic Revival of the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, 1000-1250- Ronald G. Witt, 1971
Article | Additional
Medieval agriculture, the Southern French countryside, and the early Cistercians -Constance H. Berman, 1986
Book | Additional
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2/ Trade and commercialization (5 items)
An economic and social history of later medieval Europe, 1000-1500 - Epstein, Steven,2009
Book | Additional
Money and its use in medieval Europe - Spufford, Peter, 1988Book | Additional | esp. ch. 5, ‘New Silver, c. 1160-c. 1330’, 109–132’ and ch.11 ‘The
place of money in the commercial revolution of the thirteenth century’.
The commercial revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350 - Lopez, Robert S., 1976Book | Additional
The Cambridge economic history: Vol.2: Trade and industry in the Middle Ages - Postan, M.M., Miller, Edward, 1987
Book | Additional | pp.168-305.
Trade in manufactured goods - P. SpuffordChapter | Additional | pp. 228–269
3/ General (11 items)
The first European revolution, c. 970-1215 - Moore, R. I., 2000Book | Additional | ch. 2.
The making of Europe: conquest, colonization and cultural change, 950-1350 - Bartlett,Robert, 1994,c1993
Book | Additional | chs. 5-7.
The two cities: medieval Europe, 1050-1320 - Barber, Malcolm, 1992Book | Additional | ch. 3.
Europe in the High Middle Ages 1150-1309 - Mundy, John H., 1991Book | Additional
Population in Europe, 500–1500Chapter | Additional
The early growth of the European economy: warriors and peasants from the seventh to thetwelfth century - Duby, Georges, 1974
Book | Additional
A Source Book for Medieval Economic History - H.H. CoulsonBook | Additional | esp. the grant of two fairs at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) in 1166 and of
two fairs at Duisberg in 1173 in (New York, 1965), pp.120-124; the navigation code of Arles(1150) and the Barcelona maritime code (1258), pp.153-155, 160-168; a charter for thetown of St Omer (1127, amended in 1128) and a grant of land for the Gild-Hall of St Omer(1151) pp.200-202, 204-205. The latter can be compared with the charter of Bruges in itssentiments towards outsiders—p.207. Or compare the charter for the town of St Omer withthe Declaration of the count of Toul over the city of Toul (1069) on pp.195-199.
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These three items deal with the end of economic growth, right at the end of our period:
The Great European Famine of 1315, 1316, and 1317 - Henry S. Lucas, 1930Article | Additional
Overpopulation in France and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages - Norman J. G.Pounds, 1970
Article | Additional
The great famine: northern Europe in the early fourteenth century - Jordan, William C.,1996
Book | Additional
Some questions to consider while reading (NB not essay questions): On towns: Did strongcivic authorities and guilds help or hinder urban economies? Have the effects of the'commercial revolution' been overstated? How should we understand the urbanization ofmedieval Europe? Did trade depend on towns or did towns depend on trade? Why didsome towns achieve independence when others did not? How would you characterize therelationship between population, commercialization, and economic growth in medievalEurope? What caused the late-medieval economic contraction in Europe?
Seminar 15 – Economic Growth (3 items)Essay question: What role did demographic change play in economic growth in westernEurope from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries?
Essential Reading (2 items)Essay question: What role did demographic change play in economic growth in westernEurope from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries?
Of Poverty and Primacy: Demand, Liquidity, and the Flemish Economic Miracle, 1050-1200- David Nicholas, 1991
Article | Additional
An economic history of medieval Europe - Pounds, Norman John Greville, 1994Book | Additional | pp. 140-164.
Further Reading (1 items)
As above, for lecture.
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Lecture 16 – Social and Economic Life: China (27 items)Essay questions: How did the Chinese economy change during the tenth to fourteenthcenturies? OR What were the main effects of commercialization in Song China andmedieval Europe?
Essential Reading (4 items)(for lecture and seminar)
Chinese Civilization - Patricia Buckley Ebrey, 1993Book | Core | Extracts and Sources 35, 40, 41, 43, 45.
Going Upriver during the Qingming Festival (Qingming shanghe tu)Image | Core | Painting
The pattern of the Chinese past: a social and economic interpretation - Elvin, Mark, 1973Book | Core
Chinese Cities, 600-1400 - H. de WeerdtChapter | Core | Note that this is a forthcoming book and the PDF is a pre-publication
material, which should not under any circumstances be circulated beyond students on thismodule.
Further Reading (23 items)
General reading on the medieval Chinese economy: (9 items)
Demographic, Political, and Social Transformations of China, 750-1550 - Robert M. Hartwell, 1982
Article | Additional
Markets, Technology, and the Structure of Enterprise in the Development of theEleventh-Century Chinese Iron and Steel Industry - Robert Hartwell, 1966
Article | Additional
A Cycle of Economic Change in Imperial China: Coal and Iron in Northeast China, 750-1350- Robert Hartwell, 1967
Article | Additional
New Directions in the Study of the Sung Economy - P.J. Golas, 1990Article | Additional
Rural China in the Song - Golas, Peter J, 1980Article | Additional
Do We Know as Much as We Need to About the Song Economy? Observations on theEconomic Crisis of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - P.J. Smith, 1994
Article | Additional
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The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History (Harvard East Asian Monographs) -Bettine Birge, Peter K. Bol, Lucille Chia, John W. Dardess, Angela Ki-che Leung, Bozhong Li,Stephen H. West, June 15, 2003
Book | Additional
Fountain of fortune - Richard Von Glahn, 1996Book | Additional
Crises and Prosperity in Sung China - J. Winthrop HaegerBook | Additional
General Chinese history, Tang to Ming dynasties: (3 items)
China's cosmopolitan empire: the Tang dynasty - Lewis, Mark Edward, 2012Book | Additional
The troubled empire: China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties - Brook, Timothy, 2010Book | Additional
The age of Confucian rule: the Song transformation of China - Kuhn, Dieter, 2009Book | Additional
General histories of China (these all range far beyond our period): (6items)
The Cambridge History of China - John K. Fairbank, 1978Book | Additional | multiple volumes, available online via KCL library.
The open empire: a history of China to 1600 - Hansen, Valerie, 2000Book | Additional
Imperial China 900-1800 - Mote, Frederick W., 2003Book | Additional
A history of Chinese civilization - Gernet, Jacques, Foster, J. R., Hartman, Charles, 1996Book | Additional
A brief history of Chinese civilization - Schirokauer, Conrad, Brown, Miranda, 2013Book | Additional
China: a new history - Fairbank, John King, Goldman, Merle, 2006Book | Additional
Long-distance trade in medieval China: (5 items)
The Emporium of the World, 1000-1400 - Angela Schottenhammer, 2001Book | Additional
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade - Tansen Sen, 2004
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Book | Additional
The Formation of Chinese Maritime Networks to Southern Asia, 1200-1450 - Tansen Sen,2006
Article | Additional
Sung Foreign Trade: Its Scope and OrganizationChapter | Additional
Taxing heaven's storehouse: Horses, bureaucrats, and the destruction of the Sichuan teaindustry, 1074-1224 - Paul J Smith, 1991
Book | Additional
Seminar 16 – Urbanisation (11 items)
Essay question: Compare urban life in China and western Europe during the middle ages.OR How useful is the distinction between urban and rural areas in medieval China?
Essential Reading, as above for lecture, especially: (2 items)
Chinese Cities, 600-1400 - H. de WeerdtChapter | Core
Going Upriver during the Qingming Festival (Qingming shanghe tu)Image | Core
Further reading: Medieval Chinese urban life (think also about westernEurope, week 15 reading): (9 items)
Cities of aristocrats and bureaucrats - Chye Kiang Heng, 1999Book | Additional
Urbanization and the Development of Markets in the Lower Yangtze ValleyChapter | Additional
China's golden age: everyday life in the Tang dynasty (Daily life in traditional China) -Benn, Charles D., 2004
Book | Additional
Shanghai - Linda Cooke Johnson, 1995Book | Additional
Negotiating Urban Space: Urbanization and Lat Ming Nanjing - Fei, Si-Ye, 2010Book | Additional
Daily life in China: on the eve of the Mongol invasion, 1250-1276 - Gernet, Jacques,American Council of Learned Societies, 1962
Book | Additional
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The city in late Imperial China - Skinner, G. William, American Council of Learned Societies,1995
Book | Additional
Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China - Billy K. L. So, 2001Book | Additional
The Chinese City in Space and Time - Yinong Xu, 2000Book | Additional
Lecture 17 – Plague and Rebellion in the fourteenth century (28 items)Essay question: In what ways was the Black Death a turning point in history?
Essential Reading (2 items)
The black death - Joseph Patrick Byrne, 2004Book | Core | ch. 1.
Popular Insurrection and the Black Death: A Comparative View - S. K. Cohn, 2007-01-01Article | Core
Further Reading (1 items)
A distant mirror: the calamitous 14th century - Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim, 1978Book | Additional | – a real page turner on the century that began with famines, and
continued with plague and rebellions.
Sources (essential for an essay on this topic): (2 items)
Internet History SourcebooksWebpage | Recommended | - online material on the 14th century
The Black death - Horrox, Rosemary, c1994Book | Recommended | – available electronically through KCL, but only on campus!
On the Black Death: (4 items)
Cohn has written extensvely on the Black Death; his views on some aspects, however,have been extensively criticized, see O. Benedictow, What Disease was Plague? (below).
What disease was plague?: on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plagueepidemics of the past - Ole Jørgen Benedictow, 2010
Book | Recommended
The Black Death, 1346-1353: the complete history - Benedictow, Ole Jørgen, 2004Book | Recommended
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The cult of remembrance and the Black Death: six Renaissance cities in central Italy -Cohn, Samuel Kline, 1992
Book | Recommended
On popular rebellions: (6 items)
Lust for liberty: the politics of social revolt in medieval Europe, 1200-1425 : Italy, France,and Flanders - Samuel Kline Cohn, 2008, c2006
Book | Recommended
The black death and the transformation of the west - Herlihy, David, Cohn, Samuel Kline,1997
Book | Recommended
The great famine: northern Europe in the early fourteenth century - Jordan, William C.,1998
Book | Recommended
The anatomy of popular rebellion in the Middle Ages - Fourquin, Guy, Chesters, Anne, 1978Book | Recommended
The popular revolutions of the late Middle Ages - Mollat, Michel, Wolff, Philippe,Lytton-Sells, Arthur Lytton, 1973
Book | Recommended
A plague of insurrection: popular politics and peasant revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328 -TeBrake, William H, 1993
Book | Recommended
Seminar 17 – The persecution of the Jews in Europe (13 items)
Essay question: How important are religious factors in fourteenth-centurypersecutions of the Jews?
Essential Reading (1 items)
•Haverkamp, 'The Jewish quarters in German towns during the late middle ages', inPo-Chia Hsia and Lehmann (eds.), In and Out of the Ghetto, 13-28
Chapter | Core
The medicalization of society (12 items)
Medieval & early Renaissance medicine: an introduction to knowledge and practice -Siraisi, Nancy G., 1990
Book | Recommended | chs 2 & 3.
Medicine in society: historical essays - Wear, A., 1992
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The Universities and Scholasticism - J. VergerChapter | Additional
‘The Universities - J. VergerChapter | Additional
The Oxford handbook of the history of medicine - Jackson, Mark, 2011Book | Additional
Studium et Regnum: the penetration of university personnel into French and Englishadministration at the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries - J.W. Baldwin
Article | Additional
The Medieval Medical University at Paris - Bullough, Vern L, 1957Article | Additional
Medieval Bologna and the Development of Medical Education - Bullough, Vern L, 1958Article | Additional
Theory and Practice in Medical Education at the University of Montpellier in the Thirteenthand Fourteenth Centuries - L. Demaitre, 1975
Article | Additional
The Faculty of Medicine at Paris, Charlatanism, and Unlicensed Medical Practices in theLater Middle Ages - Kibre, Pearl, 1953
Article | Additional
The Western medical tradition: 800 B.C. to A.D. 1800 - Conrad, Lawrence I., Neve, Michael,Nutton, Vivian, Porter, Roy, Wear, A., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1995
Book | Additional
Jews, medicine, and medieval society - Joseph Shatzmiller, 1994Book | Additional
Lecture 18 – War and states (18 items)Question: Which major changes in the constitution, financing, and military organisation ofstates occurred in Western Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
Essential Reading (2 items)
War - C. AllmandChapter | Core
Representation (since the thirteenth century) - W. BlockmansChapter | Core
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Sources: (2 items)
Medieval trade in the Mediterranean world: illustrative documents - Lopez, Robert S.,Raymond, Irving W., 1967
Book | Recommended | esp. ch. 5. 1967 edn available online via KCL library catalogue.
Primary SourcesWebpage | Recommended | contains a series on short sources on military history, see
‘The siege of Florence, 1312’, and other C14th texts.
Further Reading (14 items)NCMH vol. 6 (1300-1415), and vol. 7 (1415-1500) includes material on individual states.
Absolutism in Renaissance Milan - Jane Black, 2009Book | Additional
The rise of the fiscal state in Europe, c. 1200-1815 - Bonney, Richard, 1999Book | Additional
Royal taxation in fourteenth century France - Henneman, John Bell, 1971Book | Additional
The Military Class and the French Monarchy in the Late Middle Ages - John Bell Henneman,1978
Article | Additional
The origins of the State in Italy 1300 - 1600 - Kirshner, Julius, 1996Book | Additional
Venice: a maritime republic - Lane, Frederic Chapin, 1973Book | Additional
Later medieval France: the polity - Lewis, P. S., 1968Book | Additional
Medieval parliaments: a comparative study - Marongiu, Antonio, Woolf, S. J., 1968Book | Additional
Power and imagination: city-states in Renaissance Italy - Martines, Lauro, 1979Book | Additional
Italy in the age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550 - John M. Najemy, 2004Book | Additional
Essays on medieval military history - Clifford J. Rogers, 2010Book | Additional
On the medieval origins of the modern state - Strayer, Joseph R., 2005Book | Additional
Cities and the rise of states in Europe, A.D. 1000 to 1800 - Tilly, Charles, Blockmans,
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Willem Pieter, 1994Book | Additional
Medieval Mercenaries - William L. Urban, 2006Book | Additional
Seminar 18 – The rise of the fiscal state in Italy (9 items)Question: How did the emergence of public debt change capital markets in Italian citystates?
Core reading: (2 items)
A Tale of "Benevolent" Governments: Private Credit Markets, Public Finance, and the Roleof Jewish Lenders in Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Maristella Botticini, 2000
Article | Core
The State and Public Finance: A Hypothesis Based on the History of Late Medieval FlorenceChapter | Core
Further Reading (7 items)
Economic Systems and State Finance, Part 1 - Richard Bonney, 1995Book | Additional
The Economy of Renaissance Florence - Richard A. GoldthwaiteBook | Additional
Money and banking in medieval and Renaissance Venice - Lane, Frederic Chapin, Mueller,Reinhold C., American Council of Learned Societies, 1985
Book | Additional
Florentine public finances in the early Renaissance, 1400-1433. - Anthony Molho, 1971Book | Additional
The Venetian money market - Reinhold C. Mueller, 1997Book | Additional
Medieval trade and finance - Postan, M. M., 1973Book | Additional
This time is different: eight centuries of financial folly - Reinhart, Carmen M., Rogoff,Kenneth S., 2011
Book | Additional | esp. ch. 6. Supplementary articles are available online via KCL library.
Lecture 19: The Frontiers of Europe: Connections with Sub-SaharanAfrica (20 items)
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Seminar: The Iberian frontier and the Atlantic
This lecture examines the often porous boundaries between southern Europe and Northand Sahelian Africa between the 13th and 15th centuries. New evidence and re-reading ofArabic chronicles suggests that the connections between Europe and these regions weremuch closer than previously thought. The Almoravid movement which swept throughsouthern Spain in the 13th century is now thought to have originated near the Senegalriver, while the 1375 Catalan Atlas (search on google images), composed by AbrahamCresques on Majorca, shows familiarity with the empire of Mali and the trade routes linkingNorth Africa and the goldfields of Bambuk in the Fouta Djalon mountains. Meanwhile,Arabic sources from Timbuktu show architects from Al-Andalus working there from the13th century, and Jews from Toledo migrating across the Sahara to Gao and Timbuktu inthe 15th century to join long-established communities. Drawing on these new sources, thelecture invites us to rethink the long-standing nature of these connections, andcontextualizes the Portuguese expansion in 15th century Atlantic trade in the light of thesefindings.
Essential Reading for the seminar (4 items)
Africa in the world: a history of extraversion - J-F Bayart, 2000-4-1Article | Core
'“The ‘Moors’ of West Africa and the Beginnings of the Portuguese Slave Trade' - K BaxterWolf, 1994
Article | Core
The Volume of the Early Atlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1521 - Ivana Elbl, 1997Article | Core
‘Abraham and Yehuda Cresques and the Catalan Atlas’ - Pinhas Yoeli, 1970Article | Core
Supplementary Reading (15 items)
Before European hegemony: the world system A. D. 1250-1350 - Abu-Lughod, Janet L.,1989
Book | Recommended
West Africa: quest for God and gold, 1454-1578 : a survey of the first century of whiteenterprise in West Africa, with particular reference to the achievement of the Portugueseand their rivalries with other European powers - Blake, John William, 1977
Book | Recommended
Enemies and familiars: slavery and mastery in fifteenth-century Valencia - Blumenthal,Debra, c2009
Book | Recommended
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The golden trade of the Moors: West African kingdoms in the fourteenth century - Bovill,Edward William, 1995
Book | Recommended
“The Almoravids: Some Questions Concerning the Character of the Movement During itsPeriods of Closest Contact with the Sudan” - P.F. Farias, 1967
Article | Recommended
“Medieval Atlantic Exploration: The Evidence of Maps” - Felipe Fernández-ArmestoChapter | Recommended
“The Discovery of Atlantic Space” - Luis Adão da FonsecaChapter | Recommended
The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589 - Green, Toby, 2012Book | Recommended | Chapter 2
Ancient Ghana and Mali - Levtzion, Nehemia, American Council of Learned Societies, 1980Book | Recommended
Some aspects of Portuguese colonisation and sea trade in West Africa in the 15th and 16thcenturies - Avelino Teixeira da Mota
Book | Recommended
Colonial encounters: issues of culture, hybridity and creolisation ; Portuguese mercantilesettlers in West Africa - Lingna Nafafâe, Josâe, c2007
Book | Recommended
A social history of black slaves and freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 - Saunders, A. C. deC. M., 1981
Book | Recommended
The Depiction of Trade as War as a Reflection of Portuguese Ideology and DiplomaticStrategy in West Africa, 1441-1556 - A.C. Saunders, 1982
Article | Recommended
Early Portuguese Expansion in West Africa: Its Nature and Consequences - John K ThorntonChapter | Recommended
Portugal, the pathfinder: journeys from the medieval toward the modern world, 1300-ca.1600 - Winius, George Davison, 1995
Book | Recommended
Lecture 20 – Humanism and the Renaissance (11 items)Essay question: What role did knowledge play in the ocurrence of the Renaissance? Howwas this knowledge transmitted?
Essential Reading (3 items)
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy - J. Burckhardt,
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Book | Core | – part 4, on Humanism. Any edition.
The origins of humanism - N. MannChapter | Core
Revolutionizing the sciences: European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 - Dear,Peter, American Council of Learned Societies, 2009
Book | Core | chapter 2 ‘Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things in theSixteenth Century’, esp. pp. 29-40.
Further Reading (8 items)
Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy: a primer in the social history of pictorialstyle - Baxandall, Michael, 1988
Book | Additional | ch. 1.
The Florentine Palace as Domestic Architecture - Richard A. Goldthwaite, 1972Article | Additional
The Renaissance - John Jeffries Martin, 2003Book | Additional
The Cambridge companion to Renaissance humanism - Jill Kraye, c2006Book | Additional
The Renaissance - Burke, Peter, 1987Book | Additional | [latest edition of a work previously published under other titles]
From humanism to the humanities: education and the liberal arts in fifteenth- andsixteenth-century Europe - Grafton, Anthony, Jardine, Lisa, 1986
Book | Additional
Architectural principles in the age of humanism - Wittkower, Rudolf, 1973Book | Additional
The Renaissance discovery of Classsical antiquity - Weiss, Roberto, 1969Book | Additional
Seminar 20 – Patronage and Art (6 items)
Essay question: Discuss the role of one traditional and one new type of patron ofRenaissance art.
Essential Reading (2 items)
Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy: a primer in the social history of pictorialstyle - Baxandall, Michael, 1988
Book | Core | ch. 1.
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The Florentine Palace as Domestic Architecture - Richard A. Goldthwaite, 1972Article | Core
Further Reading (4 items)
Patrons and artists in the Italian renaissance - Chambers, David, 1970Book | Additional
Individualism in Art and Artists: A Renaissance Problem - Rudolf Wittkower, 1961Article | Additional
Art and society in Italy 1350-1500 - Welch, Evelyn S., 1997Book | Additional
The building of Renaissance Florence: an economic and social history - Goldthwaite,Richard A., 1980
Book | Additional
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