Fall 2013
Course meets MW 2 pm in Kin 205
Dr Jo Koster
228 Bancroft
803-323-4557
kosterj@winthrop.edu
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/mdst300.htm
Date |
Assigned
Readings should be completed BEFORE class begins so that you can
participate in discussion. |
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W |
Aug 21 |
Introduction, Overview, Ten Questions |
M |
Aug 26 |
Discuss Marcus Bull, “What are the ‘Middle Ages’?”, from Thinking Medieval. Skim C&H ch. 1, “The Bible.” |
W |
Aug 28 |
Discuss C&H, chs. 2 & 3: “The Classical Heritage” and “Early Christianity.” |
M |
Sept 2 |
Discuss C&H, ch. 4, “Augustine.” Here is today's slideshow. |
W |
Sept 4 |
Discuss C&H, ch. 7, “The West after the Collapse of Roman Authority.” Short paper 1 assigned. |
M |
Sept 9 |
Leahy, The Staffordshire Hoard. Watch & discuss “Saxon Hoard: A Golden Discovery,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofCNSfF3vM. |
W |
Sept 11 |
Leahy, The
Staffordshire Hoard. |
M |
Sept 16 |
Paper 1 (Leahy) due. Discuss C&H ch. 8, “Western Monasticism.” We'll talk about the Benedictine Rule and the beginnings of scholasticism, the monastic hours, and the influences of monastic asceticism on medieval cultural practices. |
W |
Sept 18 |
Discuss C&H ch. 9, “The First Medieval Synthesis.” Watch Kenneth Clark, Civilisation (1969), episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNGzoJFj9g8. |
M |
Sept 23 |
Discuss C&H ch. 10, “Church, State, and Society.” We can talk about the Crusades & Romanesque art if you like. Here's Urban II and local news coverage of the call of the First Crusade. |
W |
Sept 25 |
Watch and discuss David Macauley, Castle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGbPShUpjpg). |
M |
Sept 30 |
Essay Questions due for midterm. Discuss C&H chs. 5 & 6, “Islam” and “Byzantium.” |
W |
Oct 2 |
Discuss C&H, chs. 11 & 12 (“The Renaissance of the
12th Century” and “Francis of Assisi and the Mendicants”).
Take-home midterm given out; due
Friday October 4 by NOON. |
M |
Oct 7 |
Discuss Labarge, ch. 8. If you want to look at a medieval surgeon's manual, here's your link. Here is the paper 2 assignment. |
W |
Oct 9 |
Field Trip: Winthrop University Archives, Cherry Road (across from Earth Fare). Be prompt! Familiarize yourself in advance with the list of manuscripts we'll look at--compare Cook & Herzberg to see what you can learn about these before we go over. Here is the assignment to do in advance of visiting the archives. |
M |
Oct 14 |
Fall Break. No classes. Over Break, if you can, watch David Macaulay, “Cathedral.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZpOd2pHiI0; it takes less than an hour but provides a TON of context for the work we'll be doing after Break. |
W |
Oct 16 |
Watch and discuss “Christina: A Medieval Life,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ZeeiPSGAw. Skim Labarge, chs. 1 & 2. |
F |
Oct 18 |
Course Withdrawal Deadline (Automatic N). |
M |
Oct 21 |
Discuss Labarge, chs. 3 -6. Paper 2 (Aberth) due. |
W |
Oct 23 |
Discuss Labarge, ch 7, and Bennett, chs. 1-3. Here's the Brigstock slideshow. |
M |
Oct 28 |
Discuss Bennett, chs. 4-6. Essay questions due for midterm. We'll go over the research paper schedule today. |
W |
Oct 30 |
Discuss Bennett, chs. 7-10.
Take-home midterm given out; due
Friday Nov. 1. |
M |
Nov 4 |
Brown, The World of the Luttrell Psalter, pp. 1-57. If we have time we’ll watch “The Luttrell Psalter Film,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AnUM1tt54; if not, watch it in your spare time (it’s only 20 minutes). Think about how this book illustrates the inter-relationships of people and ideas we've been reading about all semester. Paper 3 assigned. |
W |
Nov 6 |
Brown, The World of the Luttrell Psalter, to end. Think about what you can deduce about this community from studying this Psalter. Here are the Quire Instructions for the Group Project. |
M |
Nov 11 |
Codicology. Click through the Fitzwilliam Museum's "Making a Medieval Manuscript" animated slide show. (If you have a little more time, there's an equally wonderful version from the Getty Museum with videos.) Read the British Library, "Iron Gall Ink and Wasps," "Knight v. Snail," and Eric Johnson, "Reading through the Priest's Eye." Please bring "Basic Terms for Medieval Codicology" to class with you. |
W |
Nov 13 |
Codicology class workshop. You must e-mail Dr K your research paper proposal w/ sources by classtime today. |
M |
Nov 18 |
Paper 3
(Brown) due. |
W |
Nov 20 |
Group Presentations: Castles and Witchcraft. Here's the "Castles" Presentation with pictures and here's the "Witchcraft" PowerPoint. |
M |
Nov 25 |
Group Presentations: Food and Armor. Here's the "Food" PowerPoint and handout and here's the "Armor" PowerPoint (I combined the two separate presentations into one link). |
W |
Nov 27 |
No class. Thanksgiving Break.
Quires due before you leave for
break. |
M |
Dec 2 |
Research
paper due. Essay questions due. Evaluations, Exam prep; bring milk.
C |
M |
Dec 9 |
MDST 300 Final Exam, 3 PM. Review sheet and exam instructions. |