Development of Europe I
 Fall 2011
 M W, 5th period (2:50-4:10)
Van Dyck Hall 211

Professor Samantha Kelly
Office: Van Dyck 223B
office hours: Mon 1-2, Wed 12-1

samantha.kelly@rutgers.edu
http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/skelly

  

Graduate recitation leaders: 

Jennifer Wilson (sections 7, 9): jingles@eden /  Danielle Bradley (sections 10, 11): dfbradle@eden

TEXTS:

J. Coffin and R. Stacey,  Western Civilizations: Their History and Culture, Vol. I. 17th ed. ISBN 978-0-393-93482-3. approx. $95 new.  recommended.
Einhard, Life of Charlemagne, in Two Lives of Charlemagne, ed. Lewis Thorpe. Penguin Books, 1969. ISBN 978-0-140-45505-2. $10.20 new.   required
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America. Trans. C. Covey. University of New Mexico Press, 1961. ISBN 978-0-8263-0656-2. $11.06 new  required
All other readings are available electronically on the sakai page for this course, under "resources"

Texts are at the RU bookstore. Many used (cheaper) copies of all assigned books are available there and often online.  If you obtain copies of the books elsewhere, try to get the same edition that the class is using; for the textbook, you can also use the earlier, 16th edition, used copies of which can sometimes be found quite cheaply online or in bookstores (The different assigned page numbers of the 16th edition are found at the bottom of this syllabus.) Textbook is listed as recommended (not required) because it is expensive and you can consult a copy at Alexander Library, however you will be responsible for factual data included in the textbook if it is mentioned in lecture.  On the course schedule below, textbook readings are keyed to specific weeks, and primary source readings are keyed to individual lectures.  Ideally you should read the textbook pages at the beginning of the week, and primary source readings immediately after the lecture they’re associated with; you are responsible for having read the material by the time of the next discussion section.

STRUCTURE:

 Most of our class meetings will be devoted to lecture.  Six times during the semester, however, lecture will be replaced byrecitation.  For these, the class will break up into smaller groups, each under the direction of a recitation leader (see above), to talk about the course material covered since the last discussion section. The room and time of your recitation depends on what section you are in: consult the online schedule of classes.  Attendance at both lecture and recitation is required.  

ASSIGNMENTS, POLICIES, GRADING:
I have written up a detailed explanation of this course's components, assignments, and policies, which is called "DE.rules" and is located in the "resources" section of the sakai site. You are responsible for this information. Do not overlook it. Note in particular the new university system for tracking absences. You must go to the website https://sims.rutgers.edu/ssra and indicate the date and reason for your absence. An email will be automatically sent to me. Information on the number of allowed absences in this class, as well as rules for grade reduction for missed classes, late submission of assignments, and plagiarism, is in the document “DE.Rules.” Final grades are calculated on the following basis:

Attendance and participation in discussion (including possible quizzes): 20% 
2 short (2-page) essays: 15% each (= 30% total)
Midterm exam: 25%
 Final paper: 25%

LEARNING GOALS & CORE REQUIREMENTS

Learning goals: by the end of this course, students will

-be familiar with major events in European history before 1700, including their causes, effects, and the principal historical actors associated with them

-have an understanding of Europe's relations to other world regions/cultures and the influences in both directions that resulted from their contact

-be able to discuss change over time in such areas as governance, the economy, religion, and intellectual life

-know how to analyze primary-source documents and generate from them an original historical thesis

-be able to express their interpretation of historical source material orally and  in clear written prose.

Core requirements: this course fulfils Core requirements H, I, and L.

[H= understand the bases and development of human and societal endeavors across time and place; I= explain and be able to assess the relationship among assumptions, method, evidenec, arguments, and theory in social and historical analysis; L= employ historical reasoning to study human endeavors]

I will post any announcements, study questions, handouts or revised readings, etc. on the sakai site for this course; students should consult it fairly regularly, especially if they have missed any class.
 
 

SCHEDULE

Week 1: read textbook (17th ed.) chapter 6, pp. 175-194

[Monday Sep 5: Labor Day, No Classes]
W Sep 7: Introduction
Th Sep 8 (= Monday classes): The Crisis of 3rd century: Romanitas meets Christianitas
     Reading: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity; Eusebius, Life of Constantine, and Oration to Constantine ; Theodosian Code


Week 2: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 6, pp. 194-205; chapter 7, pp. 208-223

M Sep 12: Division of the Empire: Romanitas meets the Barbarians
     Reading: Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks; Augustine, City of God, Book XIX, chapter 17 (i.e. only second part of text found here)
     For text of the Salic Law, discussed in class, click here

W Sep 14: M Sep 19: Breakup of the Mediterranean: Christianity meets Islam
     Reading: Life of Muhammad;  Pact of Umar




Week 3: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 7, pp. 226-30

M Sep 19: RECITATION
W Sep 21: Mission and Monasticism in the West. 
    Reading: Life of Saint Guthlac

Week 4: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 7, pp. 231-39; chapter 8, pp. 243-5
M Sep 26: Charlemagne and the European empire
     Reading: Einhard, Life of Charlemagne; capitulary for saxony
W Sep 28: The Normans in History
     Reading: Ibn Fadlan, “Description of the Russian Vikings;” Luidprand of Cremona, Two Embassies to Constantinople



Above: Gatehouse, Lorsch, Germany (Carolingian age)



Week 5: read textbook (17th ed.) chapter 8, pp. 245-67

M Oct 3: RECITATION (commentary 1 due: on any document since last recitation). must upload to turnitin.com before class meeting and submit a hard copy. instructions are found in the "DE.rules" folder in the "Resources" section of the sakai site.
W Oct 5:  The 11th-Century Revolutions
    Reading: Pope Gregory VII, Dictatus papae ; Fulcher of Chartres, Account of the First Crusade; Ibn Munqidh, On the Franks in Palestine

Week 6: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 8, pp. 268-72; chapter 9, all

M Oct 10:  The 12th-Century Renaissance
    Reading: Peter Abelard, excerpts from Sic et Non and History of My Misfortunes (now under "Resources" on sakai)
W Oct 12: Rise and Fall of the Papacy
    Reading:  Letters of Innocent III; John of Paris, On Royal and Papal Power

 

Week 7: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 10, pp. 311-18, 334-37

M Oct 17: RECITATION
W Oct 19:  The Black Death, and Other Calamities
     Reading: Anonimalle Chronicle account of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381

Week 8: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 10, pp. 320-333 (for Oct. 26)

M Oct 24: IN-CLASS EXAM. Study guide available 
W Oct 26: Redefining the State

Week 9: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 11, pp. 358-371; chapter 12, all (esp to p. 391)

M Oct 31: The Italian Renaissance: Rethinking the Past
         Reading: Petrarch, Letters (read only "letter to Posterity" and second letter to Cicero; note Cicero is an ancient Roman orator, dead over a thousand years); Vasari, Life of Leonardo da Vinci
       In-class materials: site discussing Raphael's "School of Athens"; quote from Matteo Palmieri
W Nov 2: Expanding Horizons: Rethinking the World
    Reading: Cabeza de Vaca, Adventures in the Unknown Interior (skip chapters 27-29; end at ch 55); Sepúlveda, On the Reasons for the Just War among the Indians


Week 10: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 13, pp. 399-416

M Nov 7: RECITATION (short paper 2 due: on any document since the midterm). study questions to prompt your thinking here (ignore last ones on Protestant Ref for now).  must upload paper to turnitin.com before class meeting and submit a hard copy. instructions in the "DE.rules" folder in the "Resources" section of the sakai site

W Nov 9: The Protestant Reformations: Rethinking God, Prince, and Subject      

      Reading: Martin Luther, Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz and Address to the Christian Nobility

Week 11: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 13, pp. 416-425; ch. 14, pp. 427-437, 446-455

M Nov 14: The Siglo d’Oro: Catholic Spain in the 16th century
    Reading: Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
W Nov 16: The Religious Wars
    Reading: Michel de Montaigne, On Cannibals

Week 12: no textbook reading

M Nov 21 (= Wed. classes):  The Witch Hunts
    Reading:  "The Hammer of Witches"
W Nov 23: THANKSGIVING BREAK. NO CLASSES
      

Week 13: read textbook (17th ed.), chapter 14, pp. 437-446; chapter 15, pp. 457-478

M Nov 28:  RECITATION
W Nov 30: Experiments in Power: Divine-Right & Constitutional Monarchy
      Reading: John Locke, “On Knowledge” and “On Government;” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; Bossuet, On Kingship

Week 14: reading now uploaded on sakai, file name "Enlightenment" under Resources

M Dec 5: The  Enlightenment and the Second Agricultural Revolution
W Dec 9: RECITATION (review of final papers)

M Dec 12: FINAL PAPERS DUE by 2:50 p.m. Deliver to your recitation leader's office. paper topics here.   must upload to turnitin.com before class and submit a hard copy. instructions in the "DE.rules" folder in the "Resources" section of the sakai site



16th edition textbook pages:

week 1: chapter 5, "Crisis of 3rd Century" to end (pp. 196-201);
chapter 6, beginning to "Spread of Monasticism" (pp. 203-218)

week 2: chapter 6, 'Germanic Invasions' to end (pp. 222-238), 
chapter 7, beginning to "Western Civ in the early Middle Ages" (pp. 245-267)

week 3:  chapter 6, "The Spread of Monasticism" (pp. 218-219)

week 4: chapter 7, "Western Civ in Early Middle Ages" to end (pp. 267-283)

week 5: chapter 8, all (pp. 287-328)


week 6: chapter 9, all (pp. 331-364)


week 7: chapter 10: beginning to "War and the Development of the Late-Medieval State" (pp. 371-384), and section "Pursuit of Holiness" (403-406)

week 8: no textbook reading

week 9: chapter 11, "Mediterranean Colonialism" to end ( 427-438); chapter 12, all (but especially through p. 461)


week 10: chapter 13, beginning to “English Reformation (pp. 473-90)

week 11: chapter 13, "English Reformation" to end (490-500), chapter 14, beginning to "Divergent Paths" (pp. 503-513) and "Problem of Doubt" to end (522-532)

week 12: no textbook reading

week 13: chapter 14, from 'Growing Power of France" to "The problem of Doubt" (515-522); chapter 15, beginning to "Commerce and Consumption" (pp. 539-561)

week 14: no textbook reading