Hist 398 West Frankish political culture, c.

900-1150 Spring 2011 Our format for the term will be to hold seven consecutive weekly meetings to begin the week of Jan. 31, roughly 90 minutes each with a brief written component. Thereafter the remainder of the semester will be spent writing an historiographic essay of roughly 20 pages on a topic we devise together, due the week of May 1. 1: After the Carolingians T. Reuter, Introduction: Reading the Tenth Century, New Cambridge Medieval History 3 C. Wickham, Inheritance of Rome (Penguin, 2009), cc. 18, 21-23 2: Politics and society Short Oxford History of France, ed. M. Bull (Oxford, 2002), cc. 1-2 J. Nelson, Rulers and Government, New Cambridge Medieval History 3 T. Reuter, Assembly Politics in Western Europe, in Medieval Polities and Modern Mentalities, edd. Reuter and Nelson (Cambridge, 2010) 3: Feudalism R. Abels, The Historiography of a Construct: Feudalism and the Medieval Historian, History Compass 7 (2009) Short Oxford History of France, ed. M. Bull (Oxford, 2002), c. 3 4: Monasticism J. Wollasch, Monasticism: The First Wave of Reform, New Cambridge Medieval History 3, c. 6 Short Oxford History of France, ed. M. Bull (Oxford, 2002), c. 5 M. Miller, New Religious Movements and Reform, in Carol Lansing et al. (edd.), A Companion to the Medieval World (Blackwell, 2009) Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism, cc. 6-10 5: Peace of God Landes (ed.), Peace of God (Cornell, 1992) 6: Peace of God Landes et al. again if need be and: T. Riches, The Peace of God, the Weakness of Robert the Pious, and the struggle for the German Throne, 1023-5, Early Medieval Europe 18 (2010) T. Head, The Development of the Peace of God in Aquitaine, Speculum 74 (1999) J. Bowman, Councils, Memories, and Mills, Early Medieval Europe 8 (1999) 7: Crusades and crusading Short Oxford History of France, ed. M. Bull (Oxford, 2002), c. 6 C. Tyerman, Expansion and the Crusades, in Carol Lansing et a. (edd.), A Companion to the Medieval World (Blackwell, 2009) D. Carraz, Precursors and Imitators of the Military Orders, Viator 2 (2010) Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism, c. 11