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HSHU 102: Spring 2006
Instructor: Dr. Stephen Wright
Course Assistant: Ms. Amy Bricker
The Christian Tradition:
Charlemagne to Chaucer
 1.10 Introduction to the course
1.12 Institutional Authority: Church and State
- A. Topics
- Roman and Germanic concepts of law and authority
- Feudalism: jurisdiction as private possession
- B. Texts
- Emperor Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis, 535 CE, Tierney, pp. 40-42.
- NOT AN ASSIGNMENT: If you are curious to see an English translation of the entire Corpus, you can click here.)
- Law of the Salian Franks (7th-8th century), Tierney, pp. 44-47.
- Capitularies: Capitulary for Saxony (750-800) and General Capitulary of the Missi (802), Tierney, pp. 90-93.
1.17 "Administrative Monday" -- No class meeting today
 1.19 Institutional Authority: Church and State
- Topics
- rise of secular dynasties and the movement toward papal supremacy
- conflicts in action (Charlemagne's coronation; investiture controversy; Gregory VII and Henry IV)
- Texts
- Pepin and the Founding of the Papal States (from the Life of Pope Stephen II), Tierney, p. 83.
- The "Donation of Constantine," Tierney, pp. 83-84.
- Einhard (d. 840), Life of Charlemagne. Tierney, pp. 84-87.
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800): Three Accounts. Tierney, pp. 87-88.
- Cardinal Humbert on the investiture of bishops, Tierney pp. 119-120.
- Papal election decree (1059), Tierney, pp. 120-121.
- Council of Rome (1074), Tierney, p. 121.
- Gregory VII, Dictatus Papae (1075), Tierney pp. 121-22.
- Gregory VII, Decree against lay investiture (1078), Tierney pp. 122-23.
- Henry IV, Letter to Gregory VII (1076), Tierney, pp. 123-124.
- Gregory VII, First deposition of Henry IV (1076), Tierney, pp. 124-125.
- Gregory VII, Second deposition of Henry IV (1080), Tierney, pp. 125-127.
- Paschal II, Privilege of 12 February 1111, Tierney, pp. 128-129.
- Paschal II, Privilege of 12 April 1111, Tierney, p. 129.
- Concordat of Worms (1122), Tierney, pp. 129-130.
- Maps
- Images: The imperial cathedral at Aachen
- Images: Carolingian book illuminations
- Images: Charlemagne's marble throne at Aachen
- Images: Charlemagne's reliquary at Aachen
- Images: Reliquary bust of Charlemagne at Aachen
- Images: Henry IV
 1.24 Institutional Authority: Church and State
- Topics
- theories of royal, imperial, and papal power
- development of civil and ecclesiastical law
- the limits of power: parliamentary and conciliar developments
- Texts
1.26 War and Peace: 800-1100
- Topics
- Holy War: history and rationale of the crusades
- Texts
- Urban II, Proclamation of the First Crusade (1095): Five Versions
- Fulcher of Chartres, account of the fall of Jerusalem (1099), Chronicle of the First Crusade, Tierney, pp. 134-36.
- Ousama Ibn Mounkidh's description of the crusaders, Autobiography of Ousana, Tierney, pp. 138-42
- Maps
 1.31 War and Peace: 800-1100
- Topics
- Literary and pictorial representations of war
- Images
- Texts
- Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (c. 830): the Spanish expedition and the ambush at Roncesvaulx (read section 9 only)
- Song of Roland (1090-1100)
2.2 War and Peace: 800-1100
- Song of Roland (continued)
2.7 War and Peace: 1100-1450
- Topics
- Christian chivalry: ideals and practice
- the just war: theory and practice
- medieval movements for peace and order
- Texts
- Bernard of Clairvaux, "In Praise of the New Knighthood" (c. 1120)
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), "Of War" Summa Theologiae, II- II, Q. 40, aa.1-4.
- The Peace of God (Synod of Charroux, 989) and the Truce of God (Terouanne, 1063), Tierney, pp. 114-16.
- Froissart's Chronicle: The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), Tierney, pp. 307-310.
 2.9 War and Peace: 1100-1450
- Topics
- the warrior as courtier
- the rise of romance
- Images: Representations of courtly life
- Text
- Chretien de Troyes, Yvain (c. 1175-1180)
2.14 Monasticism: Common Life and Practices
 2.16 Monasticism: Common Life and Practices
2.21 Monasticism: Reform Movements
- Topics
- reform movements: Cluny, Cistercians, hermits
- diversity of ideals and practices
- spirituality: lectio divina and mysticism
- Texts
 2.23 Varieties of Christian Experience: Communal Aspects
Topics: On seeing God
2.28 and 3.2 Spring recess
3.7 Varieties of Christian Experience: Communal Aspects
3.9  Varieties of Christian Experience: Communal Aspects
 3.14 Varieties of Christian Experience: Spirituality
3.16 Varieties of Christian Experience: Spirituality
- Topics
- diversity and dissent: Waldensians, Albigensians, mendicants, spirituals, flagellants, Lollards, Hussites, etc.
- demonology, witchcraft, etc.
- The Inquistion
- affective piety, mysticism, and lay spirituality
- Texts
- The Conversion of Peter Waldo (1173), Tierney, pp. 227-228.
- Reinerius Saccho, "Of the Sects of Modern Heretics" (1254), Tierney, pp. 228-230.
- Reynaldus, Accusations against the Albigensians (early 13th century), Tierney, pp. 230-31.
- Fourth Lateran Council (1215), Canon 3: Against Heretics, Tierney, pp. 231-232
- Bernard Gui, Inquisitorial Technique (ca. 1307- 1323), Tierney, pp. 232-234
- Bernard Gui, On the Albigensians
- Fifteenth-century accusations of witchcraft
- The Book of Margery Kempe (c.1400-1433)
3.21 Christianity and Other Faiths
- Topics
- Christians and Jews
- anti-Semitic and anti-Moslem sentiments
- Videotape
- Civilization and the Jews: The Crucible of Europe by Abba Eban
- Texts
3.23 Christianity and Other Faiths 
- Topics
- interfaith collaboration
- mutual understanding and misunderstanding
- Texts
- Ibn Kammuna (c. 1215-1285), Examination of the Three Faiths, pp. 40-47, 78-99, 100-102, 150- 157.
- Arab Poets from Andalusia
- Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Prioress's Prologue and Tale," from The Canterbury Tales
Second Essay due
3.28 Education and Learning: The Development of Schools
- Topics
- rise of schools and universities
- organization, regulation, and curriculum at the universities
- role of the university in economic life
- everyday student life
- A scholar's life: the case of Abelard (1079-1142)
- Texts
- Abelard (1079-1142), History of My Adversities (selections)
- Abelard, Sic et Non, Tierney, pp. 151-154.
- Bernard of Clairvaux's attack on the new learning, Tierney, pp. 154-155.
- Music: "Exiit diliculo rustica puella."
3.30 Education and Learning: Development of the Schools
 4.4 Education and Learning: Theories and Doctrines
- Topics
- popular lore and ordinary attitudes toward learning
- Texts
- Bestiary
- Geoffrey Chaucer, "Nun's Priest's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales
4.6 Education and Learning: Theories and Doctrines
- Topics
- neoplatonism
- scholasticism
- theology and Biblical exegesis
- realism and nominalism
- Texts
- Anselm's Prosologion: the "ontological proof" of the existence of God.
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), "On the Nature of Theology" and "On the Existence of God," Summa Theologiae, I, Q. I, aa. 1-2, 8; I, Q. 2, aa. 1-2.
 4.11 Education and Learning: Theories and Doctrines
- Topics
- synthesis of scholasticism and poetry: Aquinas (1225-74) and Dante (1265-1321)
- Texts
4.13 Holy Thursday: No class meeting today
4.18 Men and Women
 4.20 Men and Women
- Topics
- religious idealization of women: Marian piety
- secular idealization of women: the "courtly love" syndrome
- Texts
 4.25 Men and Women
- Topics
- Texts
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1342-1400), "The Miller's Prologue and Tale" and "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" from The Canterbury Tales
- Francois Villon (died c. 1463), "Ballade for Fat Margot," Tierney, pp. 356-357.
- Third Essay Due
 4.28 Death and Judgment
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