Prof. Martha Carlin
copyright 2016, all rights reserved

Office: Holton Hall 328
Phone: (414) 229-5767
Messages: History Department, tel. (414) 229-4361
Email: carlin@uwm.edu
Home page: https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/
Office hours: Tuesdays, 11:00 AM – 12:00 noon, and by appointment

TA: Katie Simpson
Email: simpso74@uwm.edu
Office: Holton Hall 380
Office hours: Tuesdays, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, and by appointment

Course description: This course will survey the political, military, religious, social, economic, and cultural history of Europe in the high and late middle ages, c. AD 1000-1500. We will also look in depth at some individual events and developments, including the Crusades, the Black Death, the rise of centralized governments, and the growth of towns, and we will trace their long-term effects on European society.  To do this, we will read works by modern scholars who have attempted to reconstruct pieces of the medieval past, and also accounts written by medieval people who described their own world as they saw it. In addition we will examine non-textual sources, including examples of the art, architecture, and material culture of medieval Europe.

Course objectives: This course should provide you with a good overview of European history between AD 1000 and 1500, and enable you to understand the significance both of outstanding individual careers and events, and of broad and long-term historical patterns. It should also enable you to develop important skills in:

* reading and evaluating sources carefully and critically
* identifying and analyzing a wide variety of types of evidence
* using such evidence to reconstruct and interpret the past
* combining research and analysis with thoughtful writing to produce clear, original, and persuasive arguments

There are two required textbooks:

Joseph and Frances Gies. Life in a Medieval City. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1969; rpt Harper and Row, Perennial Library, 1981.
Judith M. Bennett. Medieval Europe: A Short History. 11th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.

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

E-mail and Internet access: You will require an e-mail account and access to the internet for this class. All UWM students receive a free UWM e-mail account, and have free internet access via UWM computer terminals and buildings with wireless internet. The History Department regularly contacts students via their assigned UWM e-mail addresses. If you use another e-mail provider (e.g., Gmail or Yahoo!) instead of your assigned UWM e-address, please go immediately into your UWM email account and put a “forward” command on it to forward all incoming e-mail messages to the account that you routinely use. This is your responsibility; UWM reflectors use UWM e-addresses only.

Papers:There is one required, 5-page, research paper (described at end of syllabus). The paper is due in class on Thursday, 7 April 2016.

Exams:There will be two exams: an in-class midterm (covering material from weeks 1-6) on Thursday, 3 March 2016, and a final exam (covering material from weeks 7-15) on Tuesday, 17 May 2016, 7:30-9:30 AM. The final exam date and time are set by the University and cannot be altered. No alternative day or time for the final exam will be possible.

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

Attendance:Your regular attendance is essential, both at lectures and at discussion sections. Students who fail to attend class (including discussion sections) or contact me during the first week of classes may be dropped administratively.

Electronic devices in class: You may use a laptop, iPad, or similar device in class only for work related to this class, such as accessing assigned readings or taking notes. This is a zero-tolerance policy: any non-class use will result in the immediate forfeiture of the privilege of using such a device in class for the remainder of the semester. All other electronic devices, including phones, must be turned off and stowed away during class.

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

Academic Advisingin History:All L&S students have to declare and complete an academic major to graduate. If you have earned in excess of 45 credits and have not yet declared a major, you are encouraged to do so. If you are interested in declaring a major or minor in History, or require academic advising in History, please visit the Department of History’s undergraduate program web page at  http://uwm.edu/history/undergraduate/.

Academic integrity at UWM: UWM and I expect each student to be honest in academic performance. Failure to do so may result in discipline under rules published by the Board of Regents (UWS 14). The penalties for academic misconduct such as cheating or plagiarism can include a grade of “F” for the course and expulsion from the University. For UWM’s policies on academic integrity, see http://uwm.edu/academicaffairs/facultystaff/policies/academic-misconduct/

UWM policies on course-relatedmatters: See the website of the Secretary of the University, at:http://www4.uwm.edu/secu/SyllabusLinks.pdf

TOPICS AND READINGS

Week 1 INTRODUCTION; EUROPE IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY

26 Jan. —

Introduction to course

28 Jan. —

Bennett, pp. xi-xx (abbreviations and contents), 1-3 (Introduction); 4-5, 130-139 (overviews of the Early and Central Middle Ages, 500-1300)

Gies and Gies, pp. 10-22 (Prologue)

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

Raoul Glaber, Histories: Church-building and the cult of relics around the year 1000
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/the-church-around-the-year-1000/

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

Week 2 LIFE ON THE MANOR; FEUDAL SOCIETY

2 Feb. —

Bennett, pp. 139-150 (Economic Takeoff and Social Change, c. 1000-1300: rural life)

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

Pierce the Plowman’s Crede, late 14^th century: peasant life
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/pierce-the-plowmans-crede/

Photograph of 13th-cent. cottage from Hangleton, Sussex
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hangleton.jpg

4 Feb. —

Bennett, pp. 162-166 (The Landholding Aristocracy)

The feudal compact: homages paid by the counts of Champagne, 1143-1226
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/homages-paid-by-the-counts-of-champagne-1143/

John of Toul’s homage to the Count of Champagne, 13th cent.
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/fealty-by-john-of-toul/

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

Glossary of technical terms used in the above four treatises
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/estate-terms-glossary/

Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies (1405): A lady’s duties
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/a-ladys-duties/

Week 3 NEW PATHS TO GOD; EUROPEAN CONQUESTS

9 Feb. —

Bennett, pp.43-44 (Benedictine Monasticism), pp. 190-210 (New Paths to God, c. 1000-1250)

Archbishop Eudes of Rouen: Visitation of monastic and parish clergy, 1248-9
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/visitation-excerpts/

11 Feb. —

Bennett, pp. 211-221 (European conquests)

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

Week 4 CRUSADES AND PERSECUTIONS

16 Feb. —

Bennett, pp. 221-235 (Crusades; persecutions)

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

Map of the First Crusade, 1095-99
http://curriculum.kcdistancelearning.com/courses/AMHISTx-HS-A08/a/unit1/images/HIS02-69.18772.jpg

Ekkehard of Aurach, Hierosolymita (early1100s): The first Crusaders
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ekkehard-aur1.asp

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

18 Feb. —

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

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

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

https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/the-development-of-the-inquisition/

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

Week 5 COMMERCE AND TOWNS

23 Feb. —

Bennett, pp. 150-161 (The Commercial Revolution)

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

Charter of the shearers of Arras, 1236
[Note on text: the muid of Flanders was a measure of capacity containing 1011 liters]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1236Weavers5.asp

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

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

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

Photograph of two 15th-cent. shops with dwelling above, from Horsham, Sussex (now in the Weald and Downland Museum)
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/image651506-.html

25 Feb. —

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

Week 6 DAILY LIFE IN TOWN AND CASTLE

1 March —

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

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

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

Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies (1405): responsibilities of the wives of craftsmen
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/wives-of-artisans/

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

3 March —

MIDTERM EXAM

Week 7 WORLDS IN COLLISION: PAPACY AND EMPIRE, c. 1000-1300

8 March —

Bennett, pp. 167-178 (the Investiture Controversy; canon law)

The papacy in the mid eleventh century:
Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida excommunicates the Patriarch of Constantinople (1054)
Papal election decree (1059)
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/the-papacy-in-the-mid-eleventh-century/

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

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

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

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

10 March —

Bennett, pp. 182-189 (The Territorial Papacy; Innocent III); 236-247 (Germany and Italy)

Innocent III (r. 1198-1216): On papal power
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/pope-innocent-iii/

Frederick Barbarossa: On keeping the peace, 1152-7
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/peace.asp

Innocent III: Canons of the 4th Lateran Council, 1215:
Read entire text:http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lat4-select.asp
Read Canons 62-69: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lateran4.asp

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

SPRING RECESS:13-20 MARCH 2016

Week 8 NORMAN ENGLAND, 1066-1307

22 March —

Bennett, pp. 248-251 (England)

The Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070s (see all 35 images at the the site below)
http://hastings1066.com/baythumb.shtml

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

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

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

24 March —

Bennett, pp. 251-258 (England)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29 March —

Bennett, pp. 258-268 (France, Iberia, Eastern Europe)

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

31 March —

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

King Philip IV (“the Fair”) of France vs.Pope Boniface VIII:
Philip rejects papal authority (1297)
Boniface threatens to depose Philip (1302)
accusation by Philip’s lawyer against Boniface (1303)
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/philip-iv/

Week 10 SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES

5 April —

Bennett, pp. 178-182, 269-282 (Schools, Universities, and Intellectual Trends)

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

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

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

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

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-75), Summa theologica: Justification for the Inquisition
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/st-thomas-aquinass-justification-for-the-inquisition/

7 April —

[RESEARCH PAPER DUE IN CLASS]

Film

Week 11 LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE, c. 1000-1300

12 April —

Bennett, pp. 283-296 (Literature and Architecture)

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

16 April —

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

Week 12 HEALTH AND ILLNESS, PLAGUE AND FAMINE

19 April —

Bennett, pp. 297-313 (Europe, c. 1300; demographic crisis; the Great Plague, and Recovery, c. 1350-1500)

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

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

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

The plague in England, 1348-9
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/the-black-death-in-the-british-isles/

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

21 April —

Bennett, pp. 344-361 (Diversity and Dynamism in Late Medieval Culture, c. 1300-1500)

The new technologies (see both websites below):

Paper, horizontal loom, windmill, magnetic compass, spectacles, gunpowder weapons:
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/some-of-the-new-technologies-of-later-medieval-europe/
Printing press:
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/the-impact-of-the-printing-press/

Week 13 PAPAL POLITICS OF THE FOURTEENTH AND EARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURIES: THE  BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, THE GREAT SCHISM, AND THE CONCILIAR MOVEMENT

26 April —

Bennett, pp. 313-321 (Late Medieval Christianity)

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

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

Petrarch’s invectives against Avignon
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/the-avignonese-papacy/

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

28 April —

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

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

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

Week 14 KNIGHTHOOD, WARFARE, AND REVOLT

3 May —

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

Bennett, pp. 322-343 (Towards the Sovereign State)

5 May —

Jean Froissart, Chronicles:
the Jacquerie in France, 1358
an English knight is felled by a Parisian butcher, c. 1370
the origins of the English Peasants’ Revolt, 1381
(see both websites below)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart2.asp
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/two-episodes-from-froissarts-chronicles/

Journal of a Bourgeois of Paris, 1405-1449, pp. 145-7: War, 1419; pp. 233-4, 240-2, 249, 253-4, 260-5: Joan of Arc, 1429-31
https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/extracts-from-a-parisian-journal-2/

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

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

Week 15 REVIEW

10 May —

Review

RESEARCH PAPER FOR HISTORY 204

Choose one of the following topics:

You are a Jew or Muslim who lived in Jerusalem in AD 1099 and survived the capture of the city by the Crusaders in that year. Write a memoir describing your experiences there during the siege and conquest of the city by the forces of the First Crusade. (As a Jew or Muslim you do not, of course, use the AD calendar or the term “Crusade.”)

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

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

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

Your paper must be five, double-spaced and use a 12-point font. It must be five pages long, exclusive of endnotes and bibliography. It must be written in the first-person.

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

Your paper must be based on a minimum of two primary sources and three scholarly secondary sources. Use only sources that are directly relevant to your own paper topic. Encyclopedias are permissible as sources of general background reading (and must be cited if used), but may not be used as any of the three required secondary sources.

ALL ONLINE SOURCES ARE PROHIBITED EXCEPT FOR:

Primary sources (such as medieval chronicles or legal documents, or photographs of art or artifacts)
Scholarly books or journal articles (such as those available through Google Books or JSTOR)
Maps and other illustrations (optional)

No websites (including Wikipedia) are permitted as secondary sources.

Remember that primary sources, which include artifacts as well as texts, date from the period that you are studying; they are “eyewitness” sources. Examples of primary sources from medieval Europe include texts such as chronicles, poems, and legal documents, and artifacts such as pottery, coins, skeletons, or buildings. It is OK to use as primary sources medieval texts in modern English translations, and to use photographs (but not drawings) of artifacts. You are welcome to use relevant primary sources from this syllabus; I have also put links to a small selection of online primary sources on my homepage, at:

https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/hist-204-primary-sources-for-papers/

Secondary sourcesdate from after the period that you are studying; they are not “eyewitness” sources. Examples of secondary sources include modern books, articles, maps, and drawings that attempt to reconstruct some aspect of the medieval past. Use only scholarly secondary sources, which are fully documented with footnotes or endnotes; a bibliography alone is insufficient.  Thus, our two course textbooks are not scholarly secondary sources.

If you are still unclear about the difference between primary and secondary sources, see me or your TA, or read the essay “Why study history from primary sources?” available online at:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/robinson-sources.asp

THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION FORMAT FOR YOUR PAPER IS THAT OF THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE:

Your paper must be fully documented in the format of the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE (CMOS), and must include both endnotes AND bibliography. (Parentheticalcitations are NOT acceptable.) College-level writing, using correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation, also is required. For guidelines on paper-writing and CMOS documentation, see my brief guide, “Documenting Your History Paper” (https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/documenting-your-history-paper/), or consult any of the other online style and documentation guides listed on my homepage, at:

https://sites.uwm.edu/carlin/documentation-guides/

The paper is due in the lecture class — not in discussion sections — on Thursday, 7 April 2016. You must hand it in on paper; please staple it or use some other sturdy fastener, not a paperclip. You may not submit your paper via e-mail or fax. No extensions will be allowed on the paper except in the case of major illness or emergency; it is your responsibility to contact me immediately in such a case.