Week 1 (August 23-27): Introduction

• A bit of Spanish geography; see a relief map of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as views of the Gibraltar Straits, the Pyrenees, the Meseta, the Cantabrian Mountains, the Sierra Morena, the Cordillera Central, Extremadura, Mulhacen, and terra rossa soils
• Sources of the early medieval history of Spain [Linehan 1-7]; visit Madinat al-Zahra, Tolmo de Minateda, El Bovalar, and the Alcazár of Seville
• The historiography of medieval Spain; see portraits of Alfonso X, King of Castile, Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña, Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, and Américo Castro y Quesada

  Week 2 (August 30-September 3): Roman legacy and the emergence of a new order [Collins 1-31]

• The Roman achievement and twilight; see maps of the Roman provinces in the Iberian Peninsula; see the portraits of Seneca, Martial, Quintilian, Trajan, Hadrian, and Theodosius; visit Italica and Emerita Augusta; see a map of Europe with the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela (Camino de Santiago) and images of the Roman amphitheater discovered in Acci (Guadix); read a brief presentation of Priscillian and Priscillianism; visit the remains of fourth-century villas in Centcelles and La Olmeda, the walls in Barcelona (Plaça Nova), and the Church of Sant Feliu in Girona; see examples of terra sigillata hispanica tardía (TSHT)
  
• The Visigoths in Hispania; see a map of the Visigothic migration and a list of Visigothic kings
  
• The Visigothic kingdom (507-569); see a map of the Iberian Peninsula in the sixth century
  

Week 3 (September 6-10): The imposition of unity [Collins 32-86]

• Monday, September 6: Labor Day (no classes)
• Leovigild [Constable 5-11]; see the portrait of King Leovigild on one of his gold coins, and maps of the Visigothic kingdom at the beginning and at the end of Leovigild's reign; visit Reccopolis and Olite (Victorianum); see the crown of King Recceswinth and gold coins struck for King Leovigild
  
• The Church triumphant [Constable 12-20]; see the complete text (in translation) of the Chronicle of Isidore of Seville, as well as his Etymologies; see the portrait of King Sisebut on one of his gold coins and read one of his letters addressed to the Theudelinda, Queen of the Lombards; visit Toledo
  

Week 4 (September 13-17): The seventh-century kingdom [Collins 87-143]

• Local society in towns and countryside; see the "Roman bridge" in Córdoba; visit the Visigothic villas in Pla de Nadal (plan, carved capital), Baños de Valdearados, and Saucedo; see a reconstruction of the El Bovalar village and an example of slate text (pizarra) from Diego Álvaro
• The rulers of the people [Constable 24-25]; see the portrait of King Chindaswinth in an illuminated ninth-century manuscript
• Outsiders and the law [Constable 21-23]; see the complete text of the Book of Judges (Lex Visigothorum), with laws against Judaism in Book XII
  

Week 5 (September 20-24): The Arab conquest [Collins 144-180]

• The new masters [Constable 29-38]; see a map of the Muslim conquest of Africa; visit Kairouan
  
• Conquest and society; visit Córdoba and see a map of al-Andalus with the northern marches (thugur); visit Narbonne, Carmona, Zaragoza, Girona, and Carcassonne; see a medieval portrait of Roland and a coin of al-Hakam I; visit Fes (Morocco) and mosque in Córdoba (Mezquita with a view of the interior); see a map of the Viking raids and an image of Isla Menor in the Guadalquivir river; visit Beja and Calatrava.
• Society and government; visit Ubeda, Badajoz, Bobastro, and Aguilar de la Frontera
  

Week 6 (September 27-October 1): The Umayyad regime [Collins 181-221]

• The government of a divided society [Constable 45-47; 62-72]; see a coin of Abd al-Rahman III and a map of the Caliphate of  Córdoba; visit the Fuengirola Castle on Costa del Sol and the palatial compound at Madinat al-Zahra (with a plan and the view of the reception hall); see a view of the mihrab in the Córdoba mosque (Mezquita); see examples of golden jewelry found in Madinat al-Zahira
• The land of three religions [Constable 48-55; 73-74; 81-83]; read the letter of Hasdai ibn Shaprut to the King of the Khazars; visit Cabra and the abbeys of San Torribio in Liebana and San Millán de la Cogolla; see an illuminated page from the Mozarabic manuscript of Beatus of Liebana's Commentary on the Book of Revelations
• The collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate; see an example of a Berber turban and a map of the taifa kingdoms

• The Asturias and León [Constable 56-61]; see a map of the kingdom of the Asturias, and the statue of Pelagius (Pelayo) in Covadonga; visit Cangas de Onis, Pravia, and Oviedo (especially the Church of St. Julian and its frescoes); visit the Church of St. Mary in Monte Naranco, which was built in the southern wing of Ramiro I's palatial compound; see a map of Castile; visit Zamora, Burgos, and the Abbey of San Salvador de Valdedios; see a late medieval image of St. James Matamoros and the cross erected at Clavijo; visit León (especially the Church of St. Mary) and Salamanca; se a page from Codex Vigilanus and an illumination from Codex Aemilianensis; visit the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostella and the abbeys of Carracedo and Samos
• The Kingdom of Pamplona and the county of Aragón; see a map of the Kingdom of Pamplona and its neighbors; visit Najera and the abbeys of Leyre, San Juan de la Peña, and San Millán de la Cogolla
  
• Frankish March in Catalonia; see a map of early medieval Catalonia; visit the abbeys of Gellone, Sant Benet de Bages, Ripoll and Cuxa, and the castle of Cardona

• The taifa kingdoms [Constable 84-90]; visit Granada, Seville, Zaragoza,(with a view of the interior of the Aljafería), Badajoz, and Albarracin; see a portrait of Alfonso VI and the influence of the Abbey of Cluny (with a reconstruction of the third abbey church, to the building of which he contributed); visit Tarifa, Coria, and Toledo
• The Almoravids [Constable 103-107; 175-179]; see maps of the Almoravid Empire, the Atlas mountain range (with a view of the High Atlas), the medieval trade in Western Africa, and the situation in Spain after the Almoravid conquest; visit Wadi Ziz, Marrakesh (especially the Almoravid koubba), Tlemcen, Tangier, and Ceuta; see an Almoravid dinar struck in Marrakesh; visit Aledo, Bairen, Consuegra, and Ucles; see a clip from the the 1961 The Cid movie; visit Motril and Fraga.
• Friday, October 15: Homecoming (no classes)

• Jews and Judaism in Muslim Spain [Constable 91-102]
• The Mozarab community
• Midterm

• Fernando I el Magno and Navarra [Constable 111-122]; see a map of the Iberian Peninsula at the death of Fernando el Magno; visit Lamego, Viseu, Coimbra, Calahorra, Graus and Barbastro, the castle of Luna, as well as the abbeys of San Pedro de Cardeña and San Pedro de Montes 
• The society of the Christian North [Constable 123-126]; visit the monasteries of San Pelayo de Antealtares and San Martín Pinario in Santiago de Compostella, as well as the Church of Santa María el Real in Nájera; see a map of the via francigenea and a coin struck in Jaca for the Aragonese King Sancho Ramírez I; visit Coyanza
• The hegemony of León-Castile under Alfonso VI; visit La Rioja, Avila, Salamanca, Segovia, Medina del Campo, Coria, Medinaceli and Ucles; see a statue of El Cid in the Balboa Park, San Diego, California

• Aragón and León-Castile at war; visit the abbey of  Sahagún, the castle of Candespina, and Astorga; see portraits of Queen Urraca, Alfonso I of Aragón, Alfonso Raimúndez, and Count Pedro Froílaz de Traba; 
• The rise of Portugal [Constable 133-136]; see a map of the kingdom of Aragón; visit the catle of Lanhoso, Orense, Sigüenza, Túy, and  Saldaña; visit Tudela, Tarazona, Borja, Calatayud, Daroca, Denia, Guadix, and Alamazán
• Barcelona in Catalonia [Constable 127-130] 

• The second taifas; visit Santarem and Lisbon
• Early Almohad caliphate [Constable 185-197]; see a map of Europe and Africa in ca. 1200; visit  the Sus valley in Morocco,  with Tinmal (visit the mosque where the early Almohads are buried); visit the Kasbah des Oudaias in Rabat and al-Mahdiya in Tunisia; visit the Albaicin quarter in Granada, Evora, Trujillo, Huete, Alcaraz, Buñol, Cuenca, and Beja; see a portrait of Averroes in a fourteenth-century Florentine fresco; visit
• Late Almohad caliphate [Constable 203-206]; see a map of the Almohad caliphat in the late twelfth century;  visit Silves, Torres Novas, Tomar, Alcacer do Sal, Alarcos, Montanchez, and Seville (especially the Giralda, the walls by Puerta Macarena, and the Torre del Oro);  see a reconstruction of the tapial  technique of building walls and see example in Alcala de Guadaira and Caceres; visit the Alhambra and see a map of fourteenth-century Iberian Peninsula, with the kingdom of Granada.

• Alfonso VII; see a portrait of Ramón Berenguer IV and a map of Navarre during the first half of the twelfth century; visit Mequinenza, San Mamed, Valencia de Don Juan, Palencia, Asturias de Santillana, Castrojeriz, the Abbey of Celanova, Ourique (with a map location), and Arcos de Valedevez
• The Reconquista and the Second Crusade [Constable 156-163]; see maps of the Second Crusade, the Treaty of Tudején, twelfth-century Languedoc, and the Christian North after the death of Alfonso VII; visit San Esteban de Gormaz, Almería (with a map location), Tortosa, Lleida (Lérida), and Las Fresneda
• Christian Iberian society in the twelfth century [Constable 164-172]; see a picture of the present-day transhumance in Spain; visit the abbeys of Fitero, Poblet, Alcobaça, and the abbey churches of Leyre and Santa Cruz de Coimbra; visit the cathedrals of Jaca, Zamora, and Salamanca, and the churches of San Martín in Frómista (with plan) and Santa Eulalia in Barcelona

• Castile victorious [Constable 209-216]; see a map of the Iberian Peninsula in the early thirteenth century; see the portraits of Sancho III and Fernando II and read more about the Order of Calatrava; see a portrait of Alfonso VIII and visit the Abbey of San Zoilo de Carrión; visit the University of Salamanca and see a portrait of St. Dominic 
• Alfonso X [Constable 217-222, 250-254]; see the effigy of doña Berenguela and a portrait of her son, Fernando III (St. Fernando); see a portrait of James (Jaume) I of Aragón and a map of his kingdom
• The Church in the Peninsula [Constable 137-155]

• Economy and society [Constable 223-231, 239-249]; visit the Aljarafe with its typical olive tree groves; see a maravedi struck for Alfonso VIII
• A land of three religions [Constable 269-275]
• Castilian culture

• The crown of Aragon: a Mediterranean empire
• Castile and Granada