Note that the lecture summaries have been taken down now that the course is over
for
History 3200 — Structure and Function of Institutions in
Medieval Europe
Below are the mandatory readings for each class, divided by week. It is of course expected that everyone will read the text before each class. A .pdf version of this list is available available here.
Please note that any reading preceded by an asterisk (*) is available online through York University libraries.
Note further that, due to the strike, the 'weeks' do not correspond correctly to calendar weeks; now the 'weeks' refer to the first, second, or third (and so on) Tuesday or Thursday that we meet. Thus, the '1' refers to the readings for the Thursday class, and the '2' to the readings for the Tuesday class.
This means that the
Mid-Term
falls on the fifth Tuesday that we meet; i.e., 7 April 2009.
(Note the revised date!)
The essay is due 5 May 2009.
Week One:
Introduction: The law and laws of early medieval Europe • The
development of Christian monasticism
Readings:
2. Augustine, The Rule of St Augustine
[available
here]
Source:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ruleaug.html
2. St Benedict, Rule for Monasteries,
[selections;
available
here]
Source:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/gregory/life_rule.iv.html
(Although I cannot promise that I shall be able to do this in a
timely fashion every week, I hope to post some post-class
reflections—hence the name pompous-sounding
name retractationes (reconsiderations) I lifted from
Augustine—that hit on some, not all(!), of the interesting
points raised in the class. I hope these prove useful to you, but be
aware that they are not a substitute for our lectures and discussions.
Please email me any corrections or modifications you'd like to see.)
Retractationes
01.1 — law
Retractationes
01.2 — monasticism
Week Two:
The growth of the early papacy •
Early economic
exploitation: manors, fairs, and trade
Readings:
1. Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral
Rule
[selections;
available
here]
Source:
www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf212.iii.i.html
2. D. Nicholas, The Growth of the Medieval City (London,
1997), pp. 1–53
HT 115 N53 1997 SCOTT & FROST
Retractationes
02.1 — early papacy
Retractationes
02.2 — early medieval towns
Week Three:
'Feudalism'
•
More Economic exploitation: towns and (re-)urbanization
Readings:
*1. E. A. R. Brown, 'The Tyranny of a Construct:
Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe', American Historical
Review 79 (1974): 1063–1088
*1. C. Wickham, 'The Other Transition: From the
Ancient World to Feudalism', Past and Present 103 (1984):
3–36
2. M. Kowaleski, ed., Medieval Towns: A Reader
(Peterborough, 2006), pp. 21–27, 37–67
HT 115 M43 2006 FROST; SCOTT-RESV
2. D. Nicholas, The Growth of the Medieval City (London,
1997), pp. 54–81
HT 115 N53 1997 SCOTT & FROST
Week Four:
AD 1000: a commercial 'revolution'
•
Church and Empire I: Church reforms and Church relations
Readings:
1. R. S. Lopez and I. W. Raymond, eds., Medieval Trade in the
Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents Translated with
Introductions and Notes (New York, 1990 [1955]), pp. 51–153
HF 395 L63 1990 FROST & SCOTT
2. B. Tierney, ed., The Crisis of Church and State,
1050–1300 (Toronto, 1988), pp. 33–95
BV 630.2 T5 FROST & SCOTT
Retractationes
04.1 — a commercial "revolution"
Retractationes
04.2 — Church & Empire
Week Five:
The rediscovery of Roman law
•
Mid-Term
Readings:
1. P. Stein, Roman Law in European History (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 38–70
KJA 147 S744 1999
1. S. Kuttner, 'The Revival of Jurisprudence', in
R. L. Benson and G. Constable, eds., Renaissance
and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (Toronto, 1999 [1982]),
pp. 299–323
D 201.8 R45 1982B FROST & SCOTT
Retractationes
05.1 — the rediscovery of Roman law
Readings:
1. Raymond of Penyafort, Summa on Marriage (tr. P. Payer,
Toronto, 2005), pp. 11–29
(unavailable at York)
2. R. Lopez and I. W. Raymond, eds., Medieval Trade in
the Mediterranean World (New York, 1990 [1955]),
pp. 157–235
HF 395 L63 1990 FROST & SCOTT
Retractationes
06.1 — the systematization of canon law
Retractationes
06.2 — guilds and communes
Week Seven:
The crusades
•
Hermits, monks, and the new poverty
Readings:
1. E. O. Blake, 'The Formation of the "Crusade Idea" ',
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 21 (1970): 11–31
1. C. Tyerman, 'What the Crusades Meant to Europe', in
P. Linehan and J. R. Nelson, eds.,
The Medieval World (London, 2001), pp. 131–146
CB 351 M43 2003 SCOTT; D 117
M43 2001 SCOTT
2. M.-D. Chenu, 'Monks, Canons, and Laymen in Search of the Apostolic
Life', in Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century
(ed. and tr. J. Taylor and L. K. Little, Toronto, 1997 [1968]),
pp. 202–238
BT 26 C513 SCOTT
*2. L. K. Little, 'Pride Goes Before Avarice: Social
Change and the Vices in Latin Christendom', American Historical
Review 76.1 (1971): 16–49
Retractationes
07.1 — the crusades
Crusades chronology
Retractationes
07.2 — hermits, monks, and the new poverty
Week Eight:
Heretics and new views of the (old) Church
•
Sin, penance, and popular religion
Readings:
1. P. Biller, 'Through a Glass Darkly: Seeing Medieval Heresy',
in P. Linehan and J. R. Nelson, eds.,
The Medieval World, (London, 2001), pp. 308–326
CB 351 M43 2003 SCOTT; D 117
M43 2001 SCOTT
1. R. I. Moore, 'Literacy and the Making of Heresy',
in ed. by P. Biller and A. Hudson, eds.,
Heresy and Literacy, 1000–1530, (Cambridge, 1994),
pp. 19–37
BT 1319 H47 1994 FROST
2. Abelard, Ethics, in Peter Abelard, Ethical
Writings (tr. P. V. Spade, Indianapolis, 1995),
pp. 1–58
B 765
A23 E82 1971 FROST & SCOTT (N.B.: this is a different edition; let me
know if you use it)
2. Peter Lombard, On Penance (Sentences 4 D. 14
cc. 74(1)–78(5))
[available
here]
Retractationes
08.1 — Cathars & Waldensians
Retractationes
08.2 — Sin and Penance
Week Nine:
The growth of the papal 'monarchy'
•
Poverty institutionalized: the rise of the mendicants
Essay due: 5 May 2008
Readings:
1. B. Tierney, ed., The Crisis of Church and State,
(Toronto, 1988), pp. 97–150
BV 630.2 T5 FROST & SCOTT
2. Francis of Assisi, Rule,
in R. J. Armstrong, J. A. W. Hellmann, and W. J. Short, eds.,
Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, vol. 1: The Saint,
(New York, 1999), pp. 99–106
2. Francis of Assisi, Testament,
in R. J. Armstrong, J. A. W. Hellmann, and W. J. Short, eds.,
Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, vol. 1: The Saint,
(New York, 1999), pp. 124–127
2. The Sacred Exchange between Lady Poverty and St Francis,
in R. J. Armstrong, J. A. W. Hellmann, and W. J. Short, eds.,
Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, vol. 1: The Saint, (New
York, 1999), pp. 539–554
(unavailable at York; you
may use St. Francis of Assisi: Writings and Early Biographies. An
English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of St. Francis,
edited by Marion A. Habig. (BX 4700 F6 H27 1973 FROST) instead)
Retractationes
09.1 — Papal monarchy
Retractationes
09.2 — The rise of the mendicants
Week Eleven:
Church and Empire II: fourteenth-century views
•
Late medieval calamity, social unrest, and `peasant' uprisings
Readings:
1. William of Ockham, Whether a Prince Can Receive the
Goods of the Church for His Own Needs, Namely, in Case of War, Even
Against the Wishes of the Pope, in Political thought in Early
Fourteenth-Century England: Treatises by Walter of Milemete, William
of Pagula, and William of Ockham, tr. C. Nederman (Tempe, 2002),
pp. 153–197
(unavailable at York)
2. M. Kowaleski, ed., Medieval Towns: A Reader
(Peterborough, 2007), pp. 316–347
HT 115 M43 2006 FROST; SCOTT-RESV
Retractationes
11.1 — Church & State in the Fourteenth Century