HIST 204
SYLLABUS
LECTURE OUTLINES
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES
Tuesday:
Music:
Student drinking and love songs, from the Carmina burana (11th-early 13th cent.):
Bacche bene venies (3:27 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBWsnxe1l9w&feature=relmfu
Tempus est iocundum (3:59 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPDCsi1mbhE&feature=related
In taberna quando sumus (3:59 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9dvU9TP8Y0
Gaudeamus igitur (3:59 min., with Latin and English lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLUKfU2AOBY
Gaudeamus igitur, sung by Kundala, of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (1:58 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czIfEhsQoho
Gaudeamus igitur, sung at an Indonesian university (2018, 2:40 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18oPEvpIJh4
Gaudeamus igitur, sung by the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute Male Choir, 2009 (2:05 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sR8dPYDQ6U
Trivium = grammar, logic, rhetoric
Quadrivium = arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music
| 11th cent.: | Rise of urban schools; decline of monastic schools |
| end of 11th-12th cent.: | Introduction to West of Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis (compiled mid 6th cent.; includes concept that “the will of the prince has the force of law”), and of Aristotle’s works (translated into Latin) |
Major scholarly controversies:
debate over “universals” (“realists” held that universals were real; “nominalists” held that universals had no reality and were only names; “conceptualists” held that universals were real as concepts)
relationship between reason and revelation
Peter Abelard (1079-1142):
Sic et Non (Yes and No): How to reconcile conflicting texts?
Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes): Abelard’s affair with his student Heloise
Gratian, Decretum (Mainz, 1472): codification of canon law
Accursius of Bologna, Glossa Ordinaria (mid 1200s): codification of commentaries on Corpus Juris Civilis
Late 12th-13th cent.: Rise of universities (see map; most important: Bologna for law; Salerno for medicine; Paris for philosophy and theology)
Books were so valuable that they might be chained to library shelves, as here in Hereford Cathedral’s library
Attempts to reconcile reason with revelation:
- Ibn Rushd (known in the West as Averroes, 1126-1198): attempted to reconcile Aristotle with Islam
- Moses Maimonides (1135-1204): Guide for the Perplexed (see here in an autograph draft MS), attempted to reconcile Aristotle with the Hebrew Bible
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Summa Theologica: attempted to reconcile reason with Christianity
Thursday:
Videos:
Chris Day, “History of Oxford University” (lecture, 1:04:37 hrs; show 3:55 – 27:00):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uol4V1Wa8B0
How parchment is made (BBC, 4:03 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-SpLPFaRd0
Making manuscripts (Getty Museum, 6:19 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNfdHNTv9o
A wax tablet from Roman Egypt with Greek homework on it (British Library, 2:31 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9wA9TEs88
Readings:
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
http://people.uwm.edu/carlin/st-thomas-aquinass-justification-for-the-inquisition/