Monday, May 11: Introduction (terminology, purpose, and methods)

Read:  Andrea 1-14

Tuesday, May 12: The Roman Empire and crisis of the third century

Read: Rosenwein 21-40; Andrea 28-34 and 34-38; see also the on-line map and the on-line interactive graph

Wednesday, May 13: The Late Roman Empire: Tetrarchy

Read: Andrea 20-27; see the online map

Thursday, May 14: Barbarians and successor states

Read: Rosenwein 40-58; Andrea 41-47, 60-68, and 68-71; see the on-line interactive map and another map of the "successor states"

Friday, May 15: Byzantium

Read: Rosenwein 61-70, 101-108, and 139-147; Andrea 75-81 and 83-86; see the map of the Empire ca. 550, a map of the Empire ca. 700, and a map of the Empire at Basil II's death

Monday, May 18: The rise of Islam

Read: Rosenwein 70-75, 108-114, and 147-151; Andrea 87-92 and 93-94; see also a relief map of the Arabian Peninsula, a map of the Caliphate ca. 800, together with a map of the current political configuration in the region

Tuesday, May 19: From Merovingian to Carolingian Francia

Read: Rosenwein 75-87, 118-138, and 152-155; Andrea 48-54, 135-141, and 153-158; see a map of western Europe ca. 750, a map of the Empire at Charlemagne's death, another of the partitions, and a map of the Viking raids

Wednesday, May 20: Anglo-Saxon England

Read: Rosenwein 87-90 and 161-164; Andrea 177-180; see a map of Europe in the mid-eleventh century, and a map of the western Europe at the beginning of the twelfth century

Thursday, May 21: The Ottonian Empire

Read: Rosenwein 164-169; Andrea 180-185

Friday, May 22: Medieval agriculture

Read: Rosenwein 157-158; Andrea 234-236

Monday, May 25: Memorial Day (no classes) 

Tuesday, May 26: Medieval cities

Read: Rosenwein 160-161, 182-187 and 267-272; Andrea 252-254

 Wednesday, May 27: Medieval society

Read: Rosenwein 156-157 and 158-160; Andrea 242-246

 Thursday, May 28: Medieval Church

Read: Rosenwein 97-99, 187-193, and 252-255; Andrea 212-215, 216-224 and 312-314

Friday, May 29: Midterm

Monday, June 1 and Tuesday, June 2: Crusades

Read: Rosenwein 193-197 and 256-257; Andrea 342-348; see a map of the Crusader states and read Geoffroy de Villehardouin's account of the Fourth Crusade

Wednesday, June 3: Medieval culture: the twelfth-century Renaissance

Read: Rosenwein 203-218 and 237-251; Andrea 289-294; see also images of  St. Sernin in Toulouse (with plan; Provence, France); the Cathedral in Speyer (Germany; see also the plan of the church, with views of the interior and the exterior); Sant'Ambrogio in Milan (with a view of the inner courtyard); St. Etienne in Caen (Normandy, France); the Pisa cathedral (Italy); the Church of Saint-Genis de Fontaines (France); the tympanum of the abbey church in Moissac; the Laon cathedral (France); Notre Dame of Paris (France); the Chartres cathedral (France); and the Amiens cathedral (France)

Thursday, June 4: The rise of the secular states: France

Read: Rosenwein 200-202, 229-230, and 279; Andrea 305-310; see a map of late twelfth-century France

Friday , June 5: The rise of the secular states: England

Read: Rosenwein 197-199, 223-229, and 278; Andrea 329-334

Monday, June 8: The rise of the secular state: Spain

Read: Rosenwein 199-200, 219-221, and 275-277; Andrea 257-259; see a map of the Iberian Peninsula in the early twelfth century and a map of the Reconquista

Tuesday, June 9: The failure of the secular state: medieval Germany

Read: Rosenwein 231-236 and 277; Andrea 334-336; see a map of the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Frederick II

Wednesday, June 10: The failure of the secular state and the rise of the city-state: medieval Italy

Read: Rosenwein 236-237 and 327-330; Andrea 449-453

 Thursday, June 11: Storm from the East: the Mongol invasion

Read: Rosenwein 263-267; Andrea 364-370; see a map of the Mongol Empire

 Friday, June 12: Another storm from the East: the Black Death

Read: Rosenwein 297-308; Andrea 380-385; see the path of the plague and the transmission mechanisms of the bubonic plague; see also Giovanni Boccaccio's account of the devastation brought by the Black Death

 Monday, June 15: The late medieval Church

Read: Rosenwein 280-286 and 324-327; Andrea 428-431

 Tuesday, June 16: Late medieval culture

Read: Rosenwein 286-296; Andrea 460-463; see the image of a crossbow, a musket, and a caravel; see also a view of the Cathedral of St. Francis in Assisi (with frescoes by Giotto)

 Wednesday, June 17 and Thursday, June 18: The Hundred Years War

Read: Rosenwein 312-324; Andrea 434-440; see a map of the first phase of the war

Friday, June 19: Final exam

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