Visualizing the "Medieval World," Then and Now
Read by 1/28/11:
- Sekules, 1-33
- Scott D. Westrem, The Hereford Map. A Transcription and Translation
of the Legends with Commentary (Turnhout, 2001), xv - xli [online]
Read by 1/31/11:
- excerpt from Paul Frankl, The Gothic. Literary Sources and
Interpretations Through Eight Centuries (Princeton,
1965), 440-41; 482-83 [online]
- Michael Camille, Gothic Art: Glorious Visions (1996), 8-25 [online]
Medieval Spiritual Worlds
Read by 2/2/11:
Read by 2/7/11:
Read by 2/9/11:
- Robert Calkins, Monuments of Medieval Art (NY, 1979), 101-02;
154-66 [online]
Read by 2/11/11:
Read by 2/16/11:
Read by 2/21/11:
- Sekules, 76-82
- Peter Levi, The Frontiers of Paradise (New York, 1987), 15-24; 139-43; 175-79; 190-91 [online]
Read by 2/23/11:
- Wolfgang Braunfels, Monasteries of Western Europe (Princeton, 1972), 67-79 [online]
Read by 2/28/11:
- Sekules, Medieval Art, 34-59
- Patricia DeLeeuw, "Fragments of Ritual: The Liturgical use of
Objects in the Collection of Alexander Schnütgen," in Nancy
Netzer and Virginia Reinburg, eds., Fragmented Devotion. Medieval
objects from the Schnütgen Museum Cologne (2000), 31-39 [online]
Read by 3/7/11:
- Robert Calkins, Monuments of Medieval Art (NY, 1979), 201-17
[online]
Read by 3/9/11:
- “Social History and the Book of Hours,” from Roger Wieck, Time
Sanctified (New York, 1988), 33-38 [online]
Medieval Secular Worlds
Images, Places, and Spaces of Aristocracy
Read by 3/21/11:
- Andrea Hopkins, Knights (London, 1993), 17-43 [online]
Read by 3/23/11:
- Nicola Coldstream, Medieval Architecture (Oxford & New
Yorki, 2002), 165-71 [online]
Read by 3/30/11:
- Elizabeth A. R. Brown, "The Religion of Royalty," from
Creating French Culture. Treasures from the Bibliothèque
nationale de France, ed. Marie-Hélène Tesnière
and Prosser Gifford (New Haven and London, 1995), 130-49 [online]
Read by 4/4/11:
- Michel Pastoureau, Heraldry: An Introduction to a Noble
Tradition (New York and London, 1997), 42-71 [online]
Read by 4/6/11:
Read by 4/11/11:
The Visual Worlds of the Merchant Class
Read by 4/18/11:
- Philippe Contamine, "Peasant Hearth to Papal Palace: The
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries," A History of Private Life
II, ed. Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby (Cambridge, MA, and
London, 1988), 438-43; 460-70 [online]
Leaving the Medieval World: Images of Death and Mortality
Read by 4/25/11:
- Paul Binski, Medieval Death (Ithaca, 1996), 8-28 [online]
- Agostino
Paravicini Bagliani, "The Corpse in the Middle Ages: The Problem
of the Division of the Body," from The Medieval
World, ed. Peter
Linehan and Janet Nelson (London and New York, 2001), 327-41 [online]
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In-class texts
1/26/11:
2/18/11:
3/21 & 23/11:
- Etienne de Fougères, Le Livre des manières (1174-78) (trans. Margaret
Switten)
- Jean Froissart, Chroniques: Début du premier livre (ms. Rome Reg. lat.
869), ed. George T. Diller (Geneva, 1972, pp. 848-49 (trans. Howell Chickering)
- Christine de Pisan, Le Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy
Charles V, Bk. II, chap. iv, ed. S. Solente (Paris, 1936), 1: 118-20
4/6 & 4/8/11:
4/13/11:
4/15/11:
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