Session Bibliography

Course Session Plan:

1. Tues. 31 Jan. Introduction. What is/are medieval studies? Readings from: in Van Engen, “Agenda Paper: The Future of Medieval Studies,” “The Future of Medieval Studies: A Retrospective,” “Bede’s Blush,” “Visions of Medieval Studies”; in Lansing & English: “The Idea of a Middle Ages,” in Bull, Thinking Medieval, “What Are the Middle Ages?”(pdf) and “The Evidence for Medieval History” (pdf).

2. Tues. 7 Feb. Chaucer’s Prologue as Sociology. Texts: Riverside Chaucer: “General Prologue” to Canterbury Tales. Readings from Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. GC Reserve: PR 1933.S59 S77 1989; Chaucer’s World, comp. Edith Rickert, ed. Clair C. Olson and Martin M. Crow. New York: Columbia University Press 1948; DA 220.R5; Georges Duby, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2009 GC Reserve: HN 425.D78313.

[no class 14 Feb. Monday schedule]

3. Tues. 21 Feb. What is Medieval History? Readings from John H. Arnold, What Is Medieval History? Malden MA: Polity Press, 2009; readings from George Holmes, Oxford History of Medieval Europe. Oxford, 1992; The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World. London/New York, 2005; “How the Past Is Remembered: From Antiquity to Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Beyond” and “Saving Medieval History; or, the New Crusade” in Van Engen.

4. Tues. 28 Feb. The Black Death. Readings from John Hatcher, The Black Death. Philadelphia: Perseus, 2008; John Kelly, The Great Mortality. New York: HarperCollins, 2005; David Herlihy, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

5. Tues. 6 Mar. The Family and Role of Women. Readings from Gies, Women in the Middle Ages. New York: Harper, 1978; Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood. New York: Vintage, 1972; Carol Neel, ed. Medieval Families: Perspectives on Marriage, Household, & Children. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004; Barbara Hanawalt, “Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998; “Marriage In Medieval Latin Christendom,” “Gender and Sexuality” in Lansing/English

6. Tues. 13 Mar.The Roman inheritance: Readings in Julia M. Smith, Europe After Rome: A New Cultural History 500-1500. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; “The Heritage of the Ancient World” and “The Foundations of the Middle Ages” in Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

7. Tues. 20 Mar. East-West relations. Guest: Dr. Anna Akasoy, Oriental Studies, Oxford. Readings from Robin Cormack, Byzantine Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 (Personal Reserve). Kjeld von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam in the David Collection. Copenhagen: F. Hendricksens, 2001 (Personal Reserve); Marc Gaborieau et al., The Encyclopedia of Islam. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill (In Reference section); “Muslims in Medieval Europe” in Lansing/English; “Orientalism and Medieval Islamic Studies” and “Byzantium and Modern Medieval Studies” in Van Engen; Mango, Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome. New York: Scribner, 1980; Pedersen, J. The Arabic Book. Trans. G. French. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984 (also for manuscripts); Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797, New York: Metropolitan Museum/New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006; Vivian D. Mann et al, eds. Convivencia: Jews Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain. New York: Jewish Museum/Braziller, 1992; Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ed. Maryam D. Ekhtar et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011 (Personal Reserve; New Permanent Installation at Metropolitan Museum)

8. Tues. 27 Mar. Manuscripts. Readings from Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca: Cornell, 2007; Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; Christopher de Hamel, The British Museum Guide to Manuscript Illumination. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001; “Medieval Manuscripts in the Modern Curriculum” and “Diplomatic Sources and Medieval Documentary Practices” in Van Engen; “Manuscript Books” in Greetham, Textual Scholarship; Boyle, Leonard E., Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1984; Braswell, Laurel Nichols, Western Manuscripts from Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance: A Handbook. New York: Garland, 1981; H. S. Bennett, English Books and Readers 1475 to 1557. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1969. Repr. 1989. 2nd ed. 3 vols; Pedersen, J. The Arabic Book. Trans. G. French. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984 (also for East-West); Trapp, J. B., ed. Manuscripts in the Fifty Years after the Invention of Printing. London: Warburg Institute, 1983; Michelle P. Brown, British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts: History and Techniques. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998; Barbara A. Shailor, The Medieval Book. Toronto: University of Toronto Press/Medieval Academy, 1991; Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Doob, Marjorie Curry Woods, eds. The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1992; John M. Wasson, Early Drama, Art, and Music Documents: A Paleography Handbook. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1993; Charles Johnson and Hilary Jenkinson, English Court Hand A.D. 1066 to 1500. New York: Ungar, 1967. 2 vols.; Christopher de Hamel, Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes and Illuminators. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992; Peter Barber, Diplomacy. London: British Library, 1979.

9. Tues. 3 Apr. The Invention of Printing: Readings from Albert Kapr, Johan Gutenberg: The Man and His Invention. Aldershot/Brookfield: Scolar, 1996 (Z 126 .Z7 K2813 1996); Chaytor, H. J. From Script to Print: An Introduction to Medieval Vernacular Literature. Cambridge: Heffer, 1945 (also for manuscripts); Griffiths, Jeremy and Derek Pearsall. Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375–1475. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 (also for manuscripts); “Printed Books” in Greetham, Textual Scholarship; Blake, N. F. Caxton: England's First Publisher. New York: Harper & Row, 1976; Butler, Pierce. The Origins of Printing in Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1940; E. P. Goldschmidt, Medieval Texts and their First Appearance in Print. London: Bibliographical Society / Oxford: Oxford UP, 1943. Repr. 1965; Haebler, Konrad. The Study of Incunabula. Trans. Lucy Eugenia Osborne. New York: Grolier, 1933. Repr. Kraus, 1967; Victor Scholderer, Johann Gutenberg: Inventor of Printing. London: British Museum, 1970; Michael Twyman, British Library Guide to Printing: History and Techniques. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

[Tues. Apr. 10 Spring Recess]

10. Tues. 17 Apr. The Role of Philosophy: “Philosophy and Theology in the Universities” and “Philosophy and Humanism” in Lansing/English; Julius R. Weinberg, A Short History of Medieval Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964; Parts 2 & 3 (“Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy” and “Medieval Christian Philosophy” in Columbia History of Western Philosophy, ed. Richard H. Popkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999; Gordon Leff, Medieval Thought. Baltimore: Penguin, 1958.

11. Tues. 24 Apr. The Albigensian Heresy/Crusade. Readings from Stephen O’Shea, The Perfect Heresy. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2000; Sean Martin, The Cathars. Edison, NJ: Chartwell, 2006; Mark Gregory Pegg, A Most Holy War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008; Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error. New York; Braziller, 1978.

12. Tues. 1 May. Music: Readings from Albert Seay, Music in the Medieval World. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975. 2nd. ed.; “Inventing a European Music Culture--Then and Now” in Van Engen; Alec Robertson and Denis Stevens, eds. A History of Music/Pelican History of Music, vol. 1 Ancient Forms to Polyphony. London: Cassell/Baltimore: Penguin, 1960; Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music. vol. 1 The earliest notations to the sixteenth century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ( ML160 .T18 200).

13. Tues. 8 May Art History: Readings from “Romanesque and Gothic Architecture” in Lansing/English; Camille, “Art History in the Past and Future of Medieval Studies” in Van Engen; Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002; Roger Stalley, Early Medieval Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999; Nicola Coldstream, Medieval Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002; Veronica Sekules, Medieval Art Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001; Walter S. Gibson, ed. Hieronymus Bosch. New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1972; Demons and Devotion: The hours of Catherine of Cleves: P Morgan Library; The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France: Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, New York: The Cloisters/Metropolitan Museum/ Braziller, 1974; The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: Braziller, 1969; The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, New York: Braziller, 1966; The Grandes Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: Braziller, 1971; David M. Wilson, The Bayeux Tapestry. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004; see also Islamic Art exhibition and catalogue in “East-West Relations” in Session 7; “The Game of Kings: Medieval Irish Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis” (Exhibition at Cloisters until April 22, 2012).

14. Tues. 15 May Conclusion: Van Engen, “An Afterword on Medieval Studies,” “The Future of the Study of Medieval Christianity” in Van Engen; “Medieval Europe in World History” in Lansing/English; “For an Extended Middle Ages” in Le Goff, Medieval Imagination; “Mentalities, Sensibilities, and Attitudes” in Le Goff, Medieval Civilization; The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages. New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1975.

Final Projects. In discussion in conferences during the course.