HIS4129 - Autumn 2019

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HIS 2129/4149: Topics in Early Medieval Culture

 

 

Bookstore:

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

 

Compendium HIS2129/4129:

  • 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 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 13–50 (38 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.);
  • Leslie Brubaker, ‘Icons and Iconomachy’, in Blackwell Companion to Byzantium, ed. by Liz James (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 323–37 (15 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.);
  • Anthony Eastmond, ‘Monograms and the Art of Unhelpful Writing in Late Antiquity’, in Sign and Design in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300–1600 CE), ed. by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak and Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2016), pp. 219–35 (17 pp.);
  • Bianca Kühnel, ‘Carolingian Diagrams, Images of the Invisible’, in Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Giselle de Nie et al. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 359–89 (21 pp):
  • Evelyn Edson, ‘Maps in Context: Isidore, Orosius, and the Medieval Image of the World’, in Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods, ed. by Richard J.A. Talbert and Richard W. Unger (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 219–36 (18 pp.); this article is moved from HIS4129 compendium to HIS2129.
  • 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.);

 

 

Compendium: Extra readings for HIS4129

 

  • 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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