HIST 101: Western Civilization
Fall, 2007
John Nicols
e-mail: nic@uoregon.edu

Course page: http://klio.uoregon.edu

Sourcebook 3:  Including all reading assignments for the medieval period

• M 17 November: Migrations and barbarians
  --on the barbarian terror:  the "berserker"
  --on the "battle of Chalons"
  --on "the ruin of Britain"
  --on family structure and "inheritance and legitimacy"
• W 19 November: The Structure of Medieval Europe
  --Christian church and "classical literature and culture"
  --"spiritual and temporal power in 494" =Church state relations in the early middle ages
  --Frankish law: Salic-law
  --Trial by ordeal
  --Uses of magic
• F 21 November: Charlemagne; feudalism
  --Insecurity of Europe: "barbarian invasions of the 9th century"
  --Land tenure and defense: "fiefs and jurisdiction"
  M 24 November: Church and State in the Middle Age
  --Gift of "tax exemption": what a monarch owes to the church?
  --Gift to the church: the donation of "St Denis"
  --The church and military power: "homage and fealty" owed to abbey
  --the problem of simony
  --Investiture controversy.  Ecclesiastical and secular authority
  ----the deposition and banning of Henry IV, holy Roman emperor
  ----"simony"  and "lay investiture"  forbidden
  ----toward a resolution??  the "concordat of Worms" and "Barbarossa and the Lombards"
  --The "truce of God"
• W 26 November: Political and Economic Order of the High Middle Ages
  --The fair at Thessalonike
  --Trade(?) and  "caravan"
  --The rights of "London"
  --Charter of "Ispwich"
• F 28 November: Thanksgiving holiday
  --no assignment
• M 1 December: Medieval Culture and Society
  --On "the morality of waging war..."
• W 3 December: Islam, the Crusades and the Eastern Mediterranean
  --The 1st Crusade
  --Christian piracy
  --Children's crusade
  --indulgence to fight the heathen
• F 3 December: Slides on medieval culture.
  --no assignment