Calendar of Assignments:Topic for Spring 2012: Medieval Italy, 1050-1350. This seminar will consider divergent developments in north, central, and southern Italy during a formative period in the history of the west. Topics include the medieval papacy and Rome, Sicily, the city states of northern Italy, the countryside, and Dante.Grades will be calculated as follows:Books to purchase:Calendar of Assignments:
Tu Feb 7 Introduction
Th Feb 9 David Abulafia "Introduction" and Edward Coleman "Cities and communes" from Abulafia Italy in the Central Middle Ages; Jansen Medieval Italy Sources 15 "The Peace of Constance," 17 "Villani on the ascent of the popolo"
Tu Feb 14 Daniel Waley The Italian City Republics chapters 1-3; Jansen Source 19 "A Genoese Apprenticeship Contract," 20 "Guild Regulations for the Oil Vendors and Grocers of Florence"
Th Feb 16 Waley chapter 4; Duane Osheim "Rural Italy" in Abulafia; Jensen Source 2 "Land, Money, and Grain," 3 "A Bequest of Town and Countryside," 4 "Sharecropping in the Sienese Contado," 5 "Bonvesin della Riva on Milan and its Contado"; Patricia Skinner "Material Life" in Abulafia; Jensen Source 56 "A Bath in Southwest Italy," 57 "Bishop Daibert's Order on the Height of Towers in Pisa"
Tu Feb 21 Waley 5-6; Jansen Source 34 "Giovanni Codagnello on Factional Strife in Piacenza," 35 "Giovanni Villani on the Origins of the Guelfs and Ghibellines in Florence," 36 "Vendetta in Fourteenth-Century Siena," 52 "Bartolus of Sassoferrato on the Making of Citizens"
GROUP PRESENTATIONS BEGIN
Th Feb 23 Waley 7-8, Trevor Dean "Rise of the Signori" in Abulafia; Jansen Source 42 "Lordships and City-State Rivalry in Lombardy and the Veneto"
Tu Feb 28 Jansen Source 81 "Miracles of Bishop Giovanni Cacciafronte of Vicenza," 82 "Life of Raymond 'the Palmer' of Piacenza," and 85 "The Humiliati: Five Texts"; Thomas of Celano "The First and Second Lives of St. Francis"
Th Mar 1 Jansen Source 83 "Life of Umiliana de' Cerchi," 86 "Albertanus of Brescia: Sermon to a Confraternity," 87 "The Confraternity of the Misericordia Maggiore in Bergamo: Three Texts," and 88 "Civic Veneration of the Saints at Siena: Six Texts"; Brother Ugolino Little Flowers of St. Francis "Certain Considerations of the Sacred and Holy Stigmata of St. Francis"
Tu Mar 6 FIRST PAPER DUE
Th Mar 8 Steven Epstein "The family" and Alberto Varvaro "Language and culture" in Abulafia; Jansen Source 90 "Family and Marriage in Lombard Salerno," 93 "The Customs of Salerno on Dowries," 96 "Marriage, Family and Children in the Datini Family," 105 "A Papal Bull in Favor of the University of Bologna," 107 "Rules Governing Booksellers at Bologna"
Tu Mar 13 Hiroshi Takayama "Law and monarchy in the south" in Abulafia; Runciman The Sicilian Vespers Prologue, chapters 1-3
Th Mar 15 Runciman 4-8
Tu Mar 20--Th Mar 22 SPRING BREAK
Tu Mar 27 Runciman 9-12
STUDENT LED DISCUSSIONS BEGIN
Th Mar 29 Runciman 13-17
Tu Apr 3 Brenda Bolton "Papal Italy" in Abulafia; Jansen Source 66 "Matilda of Canossa, Papal Patron," 70 "A Dispute with Pope Innocent III over Customary Rights in Alatri," 71 "Piero della Vigna's Invective Against the Pope," 72 "The Jubilee Year of 1300"
Th Apr 5 Marsilius of Padua Defender of the Peace Discourse One I-III, VIII-XII, XVI-XIX
Tu Apr 10 Marsilius of Padua Discourse Two III-IV, VI, XVII-XVIII, XXV
TOPIC STATEMENT DUE
Th Apr 12 Dante Inferno Cantos I-V, IX-XI, XIV, XVI-XVII
Tu Apr 17 Dante Inferno Cantos XIX, XXIII, XXVI-XXVIII, XXXII-XXXIV; Purgatorio Cantos III, VI-VIII, XI
Th Apr 19 Dante Purgatorio Cantos XIV, XXIII-XXIV, XXVIII, XXXII; Paradiso Cantos I-III, V-VII, IX
Tu Apr 24 Dante Paradiso Cantos XI-XII, XV-XX, XXVII, XXX-XXXIII
Th Apr 26 ORAL EXAM
Tu May 1 Presentations
Th May 3 Presentations
Sunday, May 6 at midnight: FIRST DRAFT DUE (submit electronically)
Tu May 8 Presentations
Th May 10 Presentations
Tu May 15 Presentations
Th May 17: FINAL PAPER DUE 4:00 P.M.
Laurel Carrington carringt@stolaf.edu
Most recent update: April 24, 2012