History 111 Ancient & Medieval History

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Course Texts:

Donald Kagan, et. al., The Western Heritage, Pearson Prentice Hall (Ninth Editon, 2007)

Merry Wiesner, et. al. editors, Discovering the Western Past: A look at the evidence, Volume I. Houghton Mifflin (Sixth Edition, 2008)

Paul Halsall, editor, Ancient History Sourcebook (Fordham U)

Paul Halsall, editor, Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham U)

Jules R. Benjamin, A Student's Online Guide to History

  • 2005 Jefferson Lecture: In Defense of History by Donald Kagan
  • Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents

    Week I

  • The Study of History (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • The Code of Hammurabi (U of Evansville)
  • THE NORTHWEST PALACE OF ASHUR-NASIR-PAL II AT NIMRUD
    Jack Cargill, "Ancient Israel in Western Civ Textbooks," The History Teacher 34, no.3 (May 2001):297-326.

    Week II

  • The Parthenon (Reed College)
  • Plague in Ancient Athens
  • 19th-century Photography of Ancient Greece (Getty Research Institute)
  • Introduction to Greek Stagecraft (Warwick U)
  • University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

    Week III

  • Perseus Project
  • City of Athens(U Indiana)
  • HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY
  • Lecture: Hellenistic Philosophy (Macquarie University)
  • Stoicism
  • Hellenistic Philosophy (WSU)

    Law of the Twelve Tables

  • Law of the 12 Tables
  • Law of the 12 Tables (Ancient Sourcebook)

    Week IV

  • Ancient Source Book (Fordham U)

    Week V

  • Ancient Source Book (Fordham U)
  • Pompeii Forum Project(IATH)
  • Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome(IATH)

        Augustus

  • From Octavian to Augustus: Images Illustrating His Rise to Power (U. Pennsylvania)
  • AUGUSTUS: IMAGES OF POWER (U. Virginia)
  • Resources for Augustan Studies (U. Pennsylvania)

    Week VI

  • A Feudal "Mutation"? Conceptual Tools and Historical Patterns in World History (Stephen Morillo)
  • The Medieval Technology Pages(Prof. Paul Gans, NYU)
  • The Great Stirrup Controversy (The Medieval Technology Pages)
    Monasticism
  • The Rule of St. Benedict, c.530
  • The Order of St. Benedict
  • Internet Theology Resources: Monastic Studies

    Byzantium

  • Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet

    Islam

  • Islam (Medieval Source Book)

    Germans

  • Tacitus: Germania
  • Leo I and Attila
  • Gildas Concerning the Ruin of Britain
  • The Law of the Salian Franks
  • Gregory of Tours: On Clovis

    • Carolingians

  • Annals of Lorsch
  • Einhard: Life of Charlemagne
  • The Donation of Constantine
  • Capitulary of the Missi (802)
  • Summons to Army c.804-11

    • Feudalism

  • Rollo of Normandy Homepage
  • "Feudal" Oaths of Fidelity
  • Feudal Obligations, 1020
  • Peace of God
  • Truce of God

    • Manorialism

  • Description of Manor House at Chingford, Essex, 1265
  • Domesday Book: Hecham, 1086

    • Week VII

    Medieval Church

  • Leo I: The Petrine Doctrine [r.440-461]
  • Medieval Sourcebook: Foundation Charter of Cluny, 910
  • Fourth Lateran Council: Canon 3 on Heresy 1215
  • The Rule of the Franciscan Order
  • THOMAS OF CELANO FIRST AND SECOND LIVES OF SAINT FRANCIS
  • Bernard Gui: Inquisitorial Technique (c.1307-1323)

    • Investiture Controversy
  • Dictatus Papae 1090
  • Henry IV: Letter to Gregory VII, Jan 24 1076
  • Gregory VII: First Deposition and Banning of Henry IV (Feb 22, 1076)
  • Ban on Lay Investitures, 1078
  • Gregory VII: Second Banning and Dethronement of Henry IV (March 7, 1080)
  • The Concordat of Worms 1122
    • Crusades
  • A History of the Crusades(U. Wisconsin)
  • The Crusades(Boise State U)
  • Urban II: Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095(Fulcher of Chartres)
  • Urban II: Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095(Robert the Monk)
  • Ekkehard of Aurach: On the Opening of the First Crusade
  • Fulk of Chartres: The Capture of Jerusalem, 1099
  • Anna Comnena: The Bad Manners of A Crusading Prince
  • Geoffrey de Villehardouin Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople
  • Nicetas Choniates: The Sack of Constantinople (1204)
  • Innocent III: Summons to A Crusade, 1215

    • Week VIII

  • Paris at the time of Philippe Auguste

    Medieval Architecture

  • Amiens Cathedral Web site

    Rise of Towns and the Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages

  • Tables on Population in Medieval Europe
  • Reginald of Durham: Life of St. Goderic [12th Cent]
  • Medieval Sourcebook: Southampton Guild Organization, 14th Century
  • Urban Privileges: Charter of Lorris 1155

    • Week IX

    Medieval Universities

  • Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215
  • Statutes of Gregory IX for the University of Paris 1231
  • Jacques de Vitry: Life of the Students at Paris
  • THOMAS AQUINAS: SUMMA THEOLOGIAE
  • Peter Abelard: Historia Calamitatum
  • ANSELM ON GOD'S EXISTENCE

    • Week X

    The Hundred Years War & Joan of Arc

  • Jean Froissart: On The Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
  • Johan Nider: on Joan of Arc

    • Late Medieval Papacy and Conciliarim

  • Boniface VIII, Clericos Laicos, 1296
  • Unam Sanctam
  • The Great Schism: Manifesto of the Revolting Cardinals, 1378
  • The Great Schism: University of Paris and the Schism, 1393
  • Council of Constance: Sacrosancta, 1415
  • Council of Constance: Frequens, 1417
  • Council of Constance: List of Abuses 1417
  • Pius II: The Decree Excecrabilis 1459

    • The Black Death

  • Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
  • Perspectives on Plague
  • Multidrug Resistance in Plague The New England Journal of Medicine -- September 4, 1997 -- Volume 337, Number 10
  • Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe (U. Virginia)
  • The Black Plague
  • Plague -Traveler Information

    Other Document Collections

  • Reading About the World, Vol. I
  • EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
  • The Tech: Classics Archive at MIT

    Other Courses

  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures (The University of Evansville)
  • World Cultures to 1500 (Washington State University)
  • Electric Renaissance (Boise State University)

    Maps

  • Classical Atlas Project
  • Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
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