Rachel Fulton
Department of History
The
Autumn 2005
In modern popular culture, the Middle
Ages are often imaginatively synonymous with war: knights in shining armor,
Vikings in their longships, Robin Hood with his
longbow and “merry men.” This lecture/discussion course seeks to complicate
this image by examining warfare as a central fact of European civilized life.
Problems to be addressed include the technology and economics of warfare, the sociology
of warfare, major phases in the development of
European warfare from the Carolingians through the Hundred Years’ War, and the
literary, legal, religious, and psychological significance of war for the
development of European civilization.
Books available for purchase from the Seminary Co-Op
Bookstore
John
France, Western Warfare in the Age of the
Crusades 1000-1300 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999) [D160
.F73 1999]
Edward
Peters, The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of
Robert
of Clari, The Conquest of
Joinville and Villehardouin,
Chronicles of the Crusades, trans.
M.R.B. Shaw (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) [D151.S53]
Froissart, Chronicles, trans. and ed.
Geoffrey Brereton (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968). [D113.F8996]
Christine
de Pizan, The
Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, trans. Sumner Willard, ed. Charity
Cannon Willard (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999) [U101 .C47413 1999]
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Art of War, trans. Ellis Farnsworth, with Introduction by Neal
Wood (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965; reprint Da Capo Press) [U101.M1613 1990]
Bernald Díaz, The Conquest of
Both books for purchase and all other
Course requirements
¨ This
course will depend upon both lectures and discussions. The discussions will focus on the primary
sources as indicated in the syllabus.
Some days we will focus more on discussion, others more on lecture. Texts to be discussed in depth are marked
with an asterisk. To prepare for the
discussions, you will be expected to post questions and comments that you have
about the primary source readings (*) onto the Chalk discussion boards. You should post at least three such comments (about 500 words each) over the course of the
quarter, although you are welcome to post more.
Extra credit will be given towards your participation for posting
responses to the discussions and to each other’s comments by way of the
discussion board threads. You may post
these additional responses and comments at any time before or after our class
discussion, but for your comments to count towards your required three, they
must be posted by 12noon on the day
we are to discuss the texts in class. No
exceptions!
In addition, there will be two larger writing assignments:
¨ A
take-home mid-term exam (5-7 pages),
to be handed out in class on Thursday, October 27, and due in class the
following Tuesday, November 1. This exam
will constitute 35% of your final grade.
¨ A final essay (8-10 pages), to be turned
in no later than Thursday, December 8.
This essay will be an exercise in constructing an imaginative—but
appropriately researched and documented—narrative based on one of the
encounters or themes that we will have discussed over the course of the quarter. This essay will constitute 45% of your final
grade.
September 29 Carolingian warfare
Einhard, Life
of Charles, chaps. 4-17, 22-29 (trans. Lewis Thorpe, Two Lives of Charlemagne [Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1969], pp. 59-72, 76-82) [DC73.32.T51]. Also trans. Samuel Turner, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/einhard.html#Reforms.
Capitularies
relating to the Army (trans. Paul Edward Dutton, Carolingian Civilization: A Reader [
Engelbert at the
Hincmar of
Annals of Saint-Vaast
for the Years 882 to 886 (trans. Dutton, Carolingian Civilization, pp. 477-81) [DC70.C37 1993]
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a.d. 835-924 (trans.
and ed. M.J. Swanton [
Hugh of Lusignan, “Agreement with William of Aquitaine” (in Patrick
Geary, Readings in Medieval History,
2nd ed. [
William
of Poitiers, William of Jumièges,
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Florence of
Worcester, Bayeux Tapestry, and Carmen de Hastingae Proelio
on the Battle of Hastings (ed. Stephen Morillo, The Battle of Hastings: Sources and
Interpretations [Woodbridge: Boydell, 1996], pp.
3-53) [DA196.B320 1996]
October 11 “Just War” I
Augustine,
City of
Peace of
God and Truce of God, selected documents (ed. Head and Landes,
Peace of God, pp. 327-42) [BT736.4.P44850 1992]
Gregory
VII to Henry IV (1074) (in Julius Kirshner and Karl
Morrison,
Urban II
at the Council of Clermont,
*Fulcher of
*The
Siege and Capture of
*Godfrey
of Bouillon, Raymond of St. Gilles and Daimbert to
Pope Paschal II (ed. Peters, The First Crusade,
pp. 292-96)
*Abbot Suger, Deeds of Louis the Fat (trans. Jean Dunbabin,
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/suger-louisthefat.html),
chaps. 1-2, 5, 9, 11-16, 19, 21, 26, 28-29, 33-34
Bernard
of Clairvaux, “In Praise of the New Knighthood”
(trans. Conrad Greenia, in Treatises III, Cistercian Fathers Series 19 [
“The
Primitive Rule” (trans. J.M. Upton-Ward, The Rule of the Templars: The French Text of the Rule of the Order of the
Knights Templar [
Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, al-Fath al-qussi fi l-fath al-qudsi
[“Ciceronian Eloquence on the Conquest of the Holy City”], trans. Francesco Gabrieli, Arab
Historians of the Crusades, trans. E.J. Costello (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1969), pp. 125-39 [D151.G1603]
Lancelot of the
“The
History of William the
“An episcopal
blessing for a new knight (c. 1295),” trans. J. Shinners,
in Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500,
ed. John Shinners (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview,
1997), pp. 262-64 [BR252 .M42 1997]
Geoffroi de Charny, The Book of Chivalry, chaps. 35-36,
trans. Richard W. Kaeuper and Elspeth Kennedy
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), pp. 155-71 [CR4513 .K34 1996]
*Villehardouin, The Conquest of
*Robert of Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople (trans.
McLean), pp. 30-128
*Joinville, Life of
St. Louis (trans. Shaw), pp. 191-276, 289-94, 306-16, 345-50
November 3 “Just War” II
Giovanni
da Legnano, Tractatus de bello,
de represaliis et de duello (ed. Thomas Erskine Holland, trans. James Leslie Brierly
[Printed for the Carnegie Institution of Washington at the Oxford University
Press, 1917], pp. 209-11, 216-31, 238-41, 245-46, 247-54, 264-67, 269-73,
278-80, 284-86) [JX 2060.L5T7]
*Froissart,
Chronicles (trans. Brereton, pp.
37-38, 46-112, 120-45, 193-98, 211-30, 280-94, 309-15, 373-81).
*Christine
de Pizan, The
Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry (trans. Willard, pp. 11-79, 104-44,
150-55, 163-64, 180-81, 197-99, 215-19)
November 15 Joan of Arc
*Trial
transcript (trans. W. P. Barrett, The
Trial of Jeanne d’Arc [New York: Gotham House, 1932], pp. 19-22, 45-6, 49-82, 93-7, 113-27,
138-70, 279-80, 310-20) [DC105.6.A3 1932] Alternate version: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/joanofarc-trial.html,
pp. 1-5, 31-32, 34-75, 88-92, 111-27, 145-79, 302-3, 340-50
*Christine
de Pisan, Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc (ed. and trans.
Angus J. Kennedy and Kenneth Varty [Oxford: Society
for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literatures, 1977], pp. 41-50
[PQ1575.D6 1977]
*Francesco
Guicciardini, History
of Italy (trans. and ed. Sidney Alexander [New York: Macmillan, 1969], pp.
3-4, 43-52, 61-72, 95-105, 108-9, 176-82, 189-90, 203-7, 212-15, 244-52,
298-302, 319-23, 334-35, 340-43, 376-86) [DG 539.G9303]
*Machiavelli,
Art of War (trans. Farnsworth, pp.
3-5, 14-33, 44-64, 76-81, 87-99, 125-37, 150-9, 168-80, 183-88, 202-12)
*Dìaz, Conquest of New
Spain (trans. Cohen, pp. 14-16, 44-51, 57-87, 140-65, 175-84, 203-4, 210-19,
234-48, 250, 268-311, 353-413)
FINAL
PAPERS due December 8 by 12noon (no extensions!) in HM-E 686