Prof. Carol Lansing
Office: HSSB 4251
Hours: Wed 10-12 and appts.
lansing@history.ucsb.edu
Grader: Anna Rudolph
anna_rudolph@umail.ucsb.edu
Fall 2015
History 115X
Medieval Scandals
ALWAYS REMEMBER TO BRING THE ASSIGNED READING TO CLASS!
Schedule of lectures and readings
I. Power politics and the reform of marriage: adultery scandals
Sept. 24
Introduction
Oct.
29
Europe in 1100
1
Divorce and reform
Readings 1and 2: accounts of Fulk, Phillip and Bertrade from two
chroniclers,
Orderic Vitalis and William of Malmesbury.
Rosenwein, ch. 4, esp. pp. 131-45, and ch. 5, pp. 164-75.
6
Adulterous queens?
Reading 3:
chroniclers on Eleanor of Aquitaine, including
John of Salisbury, William of Tyre and William of Newburgh.
Rosenwein, ch. 6, esp. 197-208.
8
13
Knighthood and the adultery fantasy
Reading:
Chrétien de Troyes, “Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart,” in Arthurian
Romances.
Rosenwein, pp. 214-18.
A real Lancelot? William Marshal
Reading 4: History of William Marshal, excerpts.
ESSAY I due in class
II. School and scandal
15
Education, the cathedral schools and the affair of Peter Abelard
Reading:
Abelard, “Historia Calamitatum.”
Rosenwein, pp. 178-81.
20
What did Heloise think of their marriage?
Reading:
Letters 2-5.
22
NO CLASS
III. Papal monarchy
27
The rise of papal monarchy: Innocent III and the program of
Lateran IV
Reading: Rosenwein, pp. 228-33.
29
Nov. 3
Pope Joan: an urban legend?
Reading 5:
“Saint Margaret,” The Golden Legend
Alain Boureau, The myth of Pope Joan, ch. 4.
Papal campaigns against heresy
Reading:
Jacques Fournier, Inquisition Records: Beatrice de Planissoles
(NOTE: This reading is posted on the website)
Rosenwein, pp. 231-34, 250-52.
5
Crusades against Muslim lands
Reading:
Rosenwein, pp. 170-73, 197-201, 233-36.
10
The Fourth Crusade
Reading 6:
Innocent III’s Fourth Crusade correspondence
The “Devastatio Constantinopolitana”
The Anonymous of Soissons
Villehardouin
Niketas Choniates (a Byzantine eyewitness)
IV. Late Medieval Scandals
12
Phillip IV and the Knights Templar
Reading 7: Bernard of Clairvaux, “In Praise of the New
Knighthood,”
Rosenwein, ch. 7, esp. p. 255.
17
The Trial
Reading 7: “Depositions of the Templars at Paris,” Episcopal
inquiry at Clermont,” “Proceedings of the Papal Commission at
Paris.”
19
Witches and saints
Reading 8: A trial for witchcraft at Todi
Rosenwein, ch. 8.
24
Joan of Arc
Reading: Hobbins, The Trial of Joan of Arc. NOTE: this reading is
posted on the website.
Rosenwein, pp. 289-96.
26 Thanksgiving
Dec. 1
3
Joan revisited
ESSAY II due in class
Conclusions?
FINAL EXAM: Dec 8, 8-11 am. Please bring a blue book.
Course requirements and grade breakdown:
Two essays based on the course readings
OR one 10-12 page research paper
short quizzes
Final exam
50%
20%
30%
NOTE: If you would like to write a research paper, you must meet with me and
make plans, then hand in a topic, outline and bibliography on Oct. 13.
The syllabus, other handouts and some readings are posted at
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/courses/course.php?course_id=2413
Required books (available at the UCSB bookstore in the UCen):
Barbara Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages vol. II (3rd edition)
(University of Toronto Press). ISBN978-1-44260-123-9.
Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances (Penguin) ISBN 0-14-044521-8
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard, Michael Clanchy, trans.
Betty Radice (Penguin: 2003). ISBN 0-140-44899-3
Daniel Hobbins, The Trial of Joan of Arc. (Harvard University Press, 2005),
excerpts. (posted on the website)
Course reader, available at SBprinter.com in the UCen.
699-6342
Reader Contents:
I.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Orderic Vitalis on Bertrade’s marriage to Fulk.
The ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis, ed. and trans. by
Marjorie Chibnall. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969-1980), pp. 1846, 263-5.
William of Malmesbury on Fulk Rechin and how Bertrade left
him for Philip.
William of Malmesbury, The history of the English kings, ed. and
trans, by R.A.B. Mynors, R.M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom
(Oxford and New York : Clarendon Press, 1998-1999), pp. 438-40,
596-7.
John of Salisbury on Eleanor of Aquitaine.
John of Salisbury, Memoirs of the Papal Court. (London, New
York: Nelson ,1956), pp. 52-3, 60-62.
William of Tyre on Eleanor of Aquitaine.
William of Tyre, A history of deeds done beyond the sea trans.
Emily Babcock and A.C.Krey (New York, Columbia University
press, 1943), pp 179-81.
History of William Marshal, ed. A,J, Holden (London, Anglo-Norman
Society, 2002), pp. 291-7, 341-7.
Pope Joan and a transvestite saint
“Saint Margaret,” The golden legend : readings on the saints, trans.
William Granger Ryan (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University
Press, 1993), pp. 232-3.
Alain Boureau, The Myth of Pope Joan, trans. Lydia Cochrane
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), ch. 4.
On the Fourth Crusade
Cast of Characters
Innocent III’s Fourth Crusade Correspondence, pp. 9-20,
162-76, and
The “Devastatio Constantinopolitana, ” pp. 205-21, of
Contemporary sources for the Fourth Crusade, ed. Alfred J.
Andrea (Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2000).
Villehardouin, “The Conquest of Constantinople,” in Chronicles
of the Crusades, Ed. M.R.B. Shaw (Penguin Books,
Harmondsworth, 1963), pp. 50-6, 62-93.
Annals of Niketas Choniatïs, trans. Harry I. Magoulias (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1984), pp. 311-16, 322-27.
On the Templars:
8.
Bernard of Clairvaux, “In Praise of the new Knighthood,”
“Depositions of the Templars at Paris,” Episcopal inquiry at
Clermont,” “Proceedings of the Papal Commission at Paris,” The
Templars , ed.Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate (Manchester and
New York: Manchester University Press, 1978).
A Trial for Witchcraft at Todi (1428), trans. Augustine Thompson,
Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation, ed. Jansen, Drell and Andrews
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), pp. 203-15.
A note on plagiarism:
Plagiarism is defined in the UCSB pamphlet on “The Academic Dishonesty
Question” as “the use of another’s ideas or words without proper attribution or
credit. . .Credit must be given; (1) For every direct quotation; (2) When a work is
paraphrased or summarized in whole or in part in your own words; (3) For
information which is not common knowledge . (It appears in several sources
about the subject.)”
Collusion is considered cheating as well: “There is no distinction between those
who cheat and those who willingly allow it to occur.”
Please be very careful!
A note on paper writing:
Please be quick to get help with your essays before you turn them in. I will be
glad to help, as will Anna Rudolph. Plan your thesis statement and the evidence
you will use to support it before you come to see me, so that I can help you
effectively. If you would like to write a research paper, please meet with me
early in the quarter to plan your topic.
In addition, if you have difficulty with the mechanics of writing, you can get
extensive help from a tutor in the CLAS Writing Lab in CLAS building 300. Stop
by to make an appointment or drop in but risk a wait.