Administrator | January 31, 2011
Required:
Chapter 13 (The Renaissance)
Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/courcon1.html
Roger Bacon: Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon1.html
Francesco Petrarch: On the Nature of Poetry
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet13.html
Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo da Vinci, 1550
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vasari1.html
The Book of The Courtier
http://web.archive.org/web/20001216150100/http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/courtier.htm
Recommended:
Medieval Students’ Songs
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/medievalstudentsongs.html
Roger Bacon: On Experimental Science, 1268
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon2.html
Francesco Petrarch: To Posterity
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch1.html
Petrarch Disclaims All Jealousy of Dante To Boccaccio
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet05.html
Lorenzo De Medici: [...]
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Administrator | January 26, 2011
Week 4
Required:
Chapter 12 (The Late Middle Ages)
Peter Abelard: Historia Calamitatum [The Story of My Misfortunes] (Excerpts)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/abelard-sel.html
Theophilus: An Essay Upon Diverse Arts, c. 1125
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/theophilus.html
Adelard of Bath: The Impact of Muslim Science, Preface to His Very Difficult Natural Questions, c. 1137
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/adelardbath1.html
Recommended:
Peter Abelard: Historia Calamitatum [The Story of My Misfortunes] (Full Text)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/abelard-histcal.html
The Rule of the Franciscan Order
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/stfran-rule.html
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Administrator | January 22, 2011
I’ve just sent you a handout about shaping an historical essay through blackboard. I’ll also upload it to the blackboard site for the course just in case blackboard doesn’t have your correct email address (if you don’t get the email just log into blackboard and download the handout).
Good luck with your papers!
And don’t forget to [...]
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Administrator | January 21, 2011
Writing an Historical Essay:
When writing your papers remember that history is an exercise in critical thinking. It is all about making judgments, establishing causal relationships, and then proving these with appeals to evidence. Remember the key questions: How, Why, and So What?
When writing your papers ask yourself the following questions:
What is the topic of this [...]
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Administrator | January 19, 2011
Here are this weeks readings:
Required:
Chapter 11 (The Flowering of Medieval Culture)
William of St. Thierry: A Description of Clairvaux, c. 1143
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1143clairvaux.html
Two Accounts of the Early Career of St. Bernard, c. 1150
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1150bernard-2accs.html
Innocent III: Letters on Marriage and Women
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/innIII-marriagewomen.html
Recommended:
Innocent III: Letters on Papal Policies
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/innIII-policies.html
Peter the Venerable vs. St. Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Keeping of Serfs, c. 1120
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1120Petebern.html
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Administrator | January 11, 2011
I’ve extended the deadline for Document Response #1 to next Monday (the 17th). Wednesday (the 19th [due to MLK day). This will give you a bit more time to work on it.
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Administrator | January 10, 2011
Here are the readings for week 2 (make sure to also read the handout on your Document Analysis assignment before Wednesday [we will be talking about the assignment at the beginning of Wednesday's class]):
Required:
Chapter 10 (The High Middle Ages)
Richer of Rheims: Journey to Chartres, 10th Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/richer1.html
Ralph Glaber: On the First Millenium
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/glaber-1000.html
Gregory VII: Dictatus Papae, 1090
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-dictpap.html
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Gregory [...]
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Administrator | January 5, 2011
Here are week 1’s readings (the textbook should be in the bookstore now):
Week 1
Required:
pp. xii (first 5 paragraphs of “Preface”), xvii-1 (“Geography of Europe”), 28 (“Near Eastern Achievements”), 46 (“The Legacy of the Ancient Jews”), 50 (intro to the Greek City State), 74-75 (intro to Greek Thought and “Philosophy” [4 paragraphs]), 82-88 (from “Plato” to [...]
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