HIS2129 - Spring 2019

Pensum/l?ringskrav

Books:

Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Compendium (available at Akademika. Please remember to bring your student ID with you):

  • Yitzhak Hen, ‘Introduction: A Series of Unfortunate Events’, in Roman Barbarians: the Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 1–26 (26 pp.)
  • Yitzhak Hen, ‘Chapter 4. Religious Culture and the Power of Tradition in the Early Medieval West,’ in A Companion to the Medieval World, ed. by Carol Lansing and Edward D. English (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 67–85 (19 pp.)
  • Jas Elsner, ‘Chapter 2. Between Mimesis and Divine Power: Visuality in the Greco-Roman World’, in Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance: Seeing as Others Saw, ed. by Robert S. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 45–69 (25 pp.).
  • Rosamond McKitterick, ‘Conclusion: History and its Audiences in the Carolingian World’, in History and Memory in the Carolingian World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 265–83 (19 pp.);
  • Janet Nelson, ‘History-writing at the Courts of Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald’, in Historiographie im frühen Mittelalter, ed. by Anton Scharer and Georg Scheibelretter (Vienna and Munich, 1993), pp. 53?–66 (14 pp.);
  • Gerd Althoff, Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe, trans. Christopher Carroll (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 136–59 (24 pp.);
  • Janet Nelson, ‘Was Charlemagne’s Court a Courtly Society?’ in Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Catherine Cubitt (Brepols, 2003), pp. 39–57 (19 pp.)
  • Yitzhak Hen, ‘The Early Medieval West’, in The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West (Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 183–206 (24 pp.);
  • Paul Edward Dutton, ‘Chapter 8. Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside’, in Charlemagne’s Moustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 169–88 (20 pp.);
  • Julia M.H. Smith, Europe after Rome, pp. 13–50 (38 pp.);
  • Tom Lambert, Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 1–7, 238–93 (61 pp.);
  • Nicholas P. Brooks, 'The Fonthill Letter, Ealdorman Ordlaf and Anglo-Saxon law in practice', in Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. by Stephen Baxter et al. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 301–17 (16 pp.);
  • Peter Brown, ‘Arbiters of the Holy: The Christian Holy Man in Late Antiquity’, in Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 57–78 (22 pp.);
  • Julia M.H. Smith, ‘Saints and their Cults’, in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c.600–c.1100, ed. by Thomas F.X. Noble and Julia M.H. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 581–605 (25 pp.);
  • C.H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism, 3rd edn (Pearson Education Limited, 2001), pp. 18–36, 39–52, and 66–80 (48 pp.);
  • Janet Nelson, 'Translating Images of Authority: The Christian Roman Emperors in the Carolingian World', in The Frankish World 750–900 (London: Hambledon Press, 1990), pp. 89–98 (10 pp.)
  • Alan Watson, The Evolution of Law (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), pp. 66-97 (31 pp.)
  • John J. Contreni, ‘The Carolingian Renaissance: Education and Literary Culture’, in The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 2, ed. by Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 709–57 (49 pp);
  • Rosamond McKitterick, ‘Script and Book Production’, in Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation, ed. by Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 221–47 (27 pp.).

 

E-journals, e-books and e-resources:

 

Extra readings for HIS4129:

 

Extra compendium for HIS4129:

  • Janet Nelson, ‘Literacy in Carolingian Government’, in The Frankish World 750–900 (London: Hambledon Press, 1990), pp. 1–37 (37 pp.);
  • Michelle Brown, ‘Images to be Read and Words to be Seen: The Iconic Role of the Early Medieval Book’, Postscripts 6 (2010), 39–66 (27 pp.);
  • Richard Sullivan, ‘What Was Carolingian Monasticism? The Plan of St Gall and the History of Monasticism’, in After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History, ed. by Alexander Callander Murray (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 251–87 (37 pp.).

 

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