History U705
Europe in the High Middle Ages, 900-1200
Fall 2002

Professor Thomas Head

Graduate Center 5104

Office hours: Tuesdays 4:30-6:30.

E-mail: thomas.head@hunter.cuny.edu

September 3. Introduction.

NB: in addition to the books listed below. We will set a time aside during classes later in the semester to consider the articles contained in Robert Benson and Giles Constable (eds.), Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982; reprint, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991). This book is available at bookstore. It is also on reserve at Mina Rees: CB 354.6 .R46 1982. Another copy is available at Queens College.

September 10. The Carolingian inheritance.

Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley 400-1000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). [Available on reserve at Mina Rees.] Two copies in the Medieval Carrel. Also available at Brooklyn College and City College. (Still in print.)

The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. III: c 900-c 1024, edited by Timothy Reuter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), chapter 1 (Reuter). On reserve at Mina Rees: D 117. N48 1995. Also available at Brooklyn College and City College. (Still in print.)

Patrick Geary, Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), introduction and chapter 1. Multiple copies in Medieval Carrel. (Still in print.)

September 17. No class.

September 24. From Carolingian to Ottonian Germany.

Timothy Reuter, Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 800-1056 (London: Longman’s, 1991), focusing on Part II. Available on reserve at Mina Rees: DD 126 .R48 1991. Two copies available in Medieval Carrell. Also available at Queens College, Lehman College, and Baruch College.

The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. III: c 900-c 1024, chapters 4 (Nelson) and 5 (McKitterick) and 9 (Müller-Mertens). See above for availability.

Karl Leyser, “Sacral Kingship,” in Rule and Conflict in an Early Medieval Society: Ottonian Saxony (Bloomington, 1979; reprint London, 1989), pp. 77-107. On reserve at Mina Rees: DD 137.5. L45. Also available at Brooklyn College and Lehman College.

Patrick Geary, Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), chapter 2 and 3. See above for availability.

One of the following primary sources: Odilo of Cluny, Epitaph of the August Lady, Adelheid, OR Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, The Development of the Monastery of Gandersheim. Available in electronic reader.

One of the following: The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. III: c 900-c 1024, chapters 10 (Althoff) OR 11 (Wolfram). See above for availability.

Boyd Hill (ed.), Medieval Monarchy in Action: The German Empire from Henry I to Henry IV (London: George Allen and Unwin,1972), pp. 107-215. On reserve at Hunter College: 2 copies available in the Medieval Carrell. Also available at Queens College, Lehman College, and Baruch College.

October 1. From Carolingian to Capetian France.

Jean Dunbabin, France in the Making, 843-1180, 2^nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Second edition available at bookstore. First edition available on reserve at Mina Rees: DC 70. D86 1985. Two copies of first edition (with Xerox of introduction to second edition) in Medieval Carrell. Copies of first edition also available at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Lehman College. Second edition at bookstore.

The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. III: c 900-c 1024, ONE of the following: chapters 12 (Parisse), 13 (Bouchard), 16 (Bates), or 17 (Zimmermann). See above for availability.

Constance Bouchard, “Consanguinity and Noble Marriages in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries,” Speculum, 56 (1981), pp. 268-287. Available in serials stacks and in electronic reader.

ONE of the following primary sources (Electronic reader): The Chronicle of the Counts of the Anjou OR Helgaud of Fleury, Life of King Robert the Pious.

Consult: Michel Parisse (ed.), Atlas de la France de l’an mil (Paris: Picard, 1994). Copy in Medieval Carrell.

October 8. The Feudal Revolution?

Jean-François Lemarignier, “Political and Monastic Structures in France at the End of the Tenth and Beginning of the Eleventh Centuries,” and Georges Duby, "The Nobility in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Mâconnais," in Lordship and Community in Medieval Europe, ed. Fredric Cheyette (New York, 1968), pp. 100-55. On reserve at Mina Rees: HN 11. C49 1975. Multiple copies for Medieval Carrel.

Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel, The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200 (New York, 1991), chapters 1, 2, and 5. On reserve at Mina Rees: DC 82 .P 6513 1991. Multiples copies in Medieval Carrel.

Barbara Roswenwein and Lester Little (eds.), Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), Part II “Feudalism and its Alternatives,” pp. 105-210. On reserve at Hunter College: D 117. D43 1998.

Thomas Bisson, “The Feudal Revolution,” Past and Present, 142 (1994), pp. 6-42 with responses by Dominique Barthélemy, Stephen White, Timothy Reuter, and Chris Wickam in Past and Present 152 (1996), pp. 196-213 and Past and Present 155 (1997), pp. 177-225. Available in Library serials stacks.

Thomas Bisson, “Medieval Lordship,” Speculum, 70 (1995), pp. 743-58. Available in library serials stacks and in the electronic reader.

Barbara Rosenwein, Thomas Head, and Sharon Farmer, “Monk and Their Enemies: A Comparative Approach,” Speculum, 66 (1991), pp. 764-796. Available in Library serials stacks and in electronic reader.

Thomas Head, "The Development of the Peace of God in Aquitaine (970-1005),” Speculum, 74 (1999), pp. 656-86. Available in Library serials stacks and in Medieval Carrel.

The agreement of William of the Aquitaine and Hugh of Lusignon. Electronic reader.

October 15. The Gregorian Reform.

Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 1-133. (In print.)

Horst Fuhrmann, Germany in the High Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). On reserve at Mina Rees: DD 141. F8313 1986. Two copies in the Medieval Carrell. (In print.) OR

Gerd Tellenbach, The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). On reserve at Mina Rees: BR 270. T 4513 1993. Two copies in the Medieval Carrell. (In print.)

Brian Tierney (ed.), The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964), pp. 33-95. On reserve at Mina Rees: BV 630.2 .T5.

October 22. The changing church.

Giles Constable, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Available at bookstore.

John Van Engen, “The ‘Crisis of Cenobitism’ Reconsidered: Benedictine Monasticism in the Years 1050-1150,” Speculum, 61 (1986), pp. 269-304. Electronic reader.

Caroline Bynum, "Did the Twelfth Century Discover the Individual?," and "Jesus as Mother and Abbot as Mother: Some Themes in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Writing," in eadem, Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley, 1982), pp. 110-169. (In print.)

October 29. Tradition and innovation in intellectual culture.

Brian Stock, The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983, paperback reprint 1987).

November 5. The nobility and chivalric culture.

Constance Bouchard, “Strong of Body, Brave and Noble”: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). Available at bookstore. Available at Brooklyn College and Lehman College.

Excerpts from Raoul of Cambrai in David Herlihy, The History of Feudalism, pp. 131-76. Multiple copies in Medieval Carrell.

Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel, The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200 (New York, 1991), chap. 3. On reserve at Mina Rees: DC 82 .P 6513 1991. Multiples copies in Medieval Carrell.

November 12. Rural economy and society.

Georges Duby, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, trans. Cynthia Postan (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1976; French original, Paris, 1968), pp. 1-231 and 361-428. Available at bookstore. On reserve at Mina Rees: HD 1917. D 813. One copy in Medieval Carrell.

Pierre Bonnassie, From Slavery to Feudalism in South-western Europe, trans. Jean Birrell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), chapters 1 and 7. On reserve at Mina Rees: HT 757. B 66 1991. Also on reserve at Hunter College: HT 757. B 66 1990. Also available at Brooklyn College and Lehman College. One copy in Medieval Carrell.

November 19. The developing state.

John Baldwin, The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle Ages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). Available at bookstore. On reserve at Mina Rees: DC 90. B35 1986. Also available at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Lehman College. One copy available in Medieval Carrell.

November 26. No class.

December 3. Other forms of polity and power.

Susan Reynolds, Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe, 900-1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984, 2^nd ed. 1997). Available at bookstore. On reserve at Mina Rees: D 117. R48. Also on reserve at Hunter College: D 117. R 49 1984. Also available at Brooklyn College and Lehman College. (In print.)

December 10. The heritage of the High Middle Ages.

R. I. Moore, The First European Revolution: c. 970-1215 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000). Available at the bookstore. On reserve at Hunter College: D 201. M66 2000.

For comparison: R. I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250 (London: Blackwell, 1987). On reserve at Mina Rees: HN 30. P6 M66 1987. Also on reserve at Hunter College: HN 30. P6 M66 1987. Also available at Brooklyn College and Queens College.