READING BY SEMINAR
Seminar One – Introduction
Everyone should do the following prior to the seminar:
On the UNLOC catalogue, look up <Medieval Sourcesonline>; then find P. Fouracre and R.
Gerberding, Late Merovingian France; then find Vita Domnae Balthildis 1, chapters 2-3 (pp. 119-21).
The Clovis whom Balthild married was Clovis II (died 657), a descendant of the Clovis discussed
in Seminar 2(a).
General reading (also relevant to Lecture One):
Any of the items listed above under ‘Buying Books’ and ‘Further General Books’ (on WebCT)
You might find the following of particular use:
R. Bartlett, The Making of Europe, chapter 3 (on fortifications)
J. Le Goff, Medieval Civilization, chapter 7 (on material culture)
J.M.H. Smith, Europe after Rome, chapter 1 (on literacy)
[NB - Goff’s Introduction to Medieval Callings (Chicago, 1987), pp. 1-35, available from Jan 1
2011 as a scanned article
Seminar Two (a) Gregory of Tours, Clovis and
Early Frankish Kingship
Electronic primary source:
Gregory of Tours, Ten Books of Histories (also known as the History of the Franks). Selections from
Book 2 (conversion of Clovis): Internet Medieval Sourcebook>Early Germans (in green menu
on left hand side)>non-Christian Germans>‘the Conversion of Clovis’.
E-journals:
D. Shanzer, ‘Dating the baptism of Clovis: the bishop of Vienne vs. the bishop of Tours’ EME 7
(1998), 29-57. Hard going but important – think about how Shanzer uses evidence.
Y. Hen, ‘The uses of the Bible and the perception of kingship in Merovingian Gaul’, EME 7
(1998), 277-289. Useful overlap with Shanzer on Clovis.
A. Keely, ‘Arians and Jews in the Histories of Gregory of Tours’, JMH 23 (1997), 103-115. Think
about how this essay relates to Hen’s views.
General reading:
R. McKitterick, ed. The Early Middle Ages D121.M3, pp. 9-14, 21-32 [pp. 21-56 are available as a
scanned chapter* via the Library portal]
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Two in ‘General Reading by Lecture’ on
the module WebCT site.
Seminar Two (b) Carolingian politics
Electronic primary sources:
1) J. Nelson, tr. Annals of St Bertin (1991) DC70.A2 Medieval Sourcesonline. Look up the
entries for the years 880-882 (for comparison with Maclean’s article on Boso).
2) T. Reuter, tr. Annals of Fulda. Medieval Sourcesonline. Look up entry for 882 (to compare
with Annals of St. Bertin).
E-journals:
S. MacLean, ‘The Carolingian response to the revolt of Boso, 879–887’, EME 10 (2001), 21-48.
Looks at the ‘collapse’ of Carolingian power.
S. MacLean, ‘Queenship, Nunneries and Royal Widowhood in Carolingian Europe’, PP 178
(2003), pp. 3-38. Deals with the power of royal women.
G.V.B. West, ‘Charlemagne’s involvement in central and southern Italy: power and the limits of
authority’, EME 8 (1999), 341-367. Looks at the limits to Charlemagne’s power in sourthern
Italy (including Montecassino and San Vincenzo al Volturno).
E. Screen, ‘The importance of the emperor: Lothar I and the Frankish civil war 840-843’, EME
12.1 (2003), 25-51.
General reading:
R. McKitterick, ed. The Early Middle Ages D121.M3, pp. 16-19, 36-53 [pp. 21-56 are available as a
scanned chapter* via the library portal]
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Three in ‘General Reading by Lecture’
on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Three (a): Anglo-Saxon Families
Electronic primary source:
Internet Medieval Sourcebook>Sex and gender>Marriage>Law and Marriage>‘Council
Legislation on Marriages’
E-journals:
A. Wareham, ‘The transformation of kinship and the family in late Anglo-Saxon England’, EME,
10 (2001), 375-99. Looks at how the patronage of monasteries helped lay families to ‘define
themselves’.
H. Moisl, ‘Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies and Germanic oral tradition’, JMH, 7 (1981), 215-48.
Looks at an important source for family consciousness among royal families.
General reading:
H. Fichtenau, Living in the Tenth Century D127.F4, ch. 4 (Scanned chapter*) and ch. 5
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Five in ‘General Reading by Lecture’ on
the module WebCT site.
Seminar Three (b): Vikings and Slaves
Electronic primary source:
Internet Medieval Sourcebook>10th C Collapse>External Attacks>Ibn Fadlan, Risala
(This should be backed up with the excellent commentary by J. Jesch in her Women in the Viking
Age 1991, 119-23 DL65.J4)
E-journal:
D. Pelteret, ‘The image of the slave in some Anglo-Saxon and Norse sources’, Slavery and
Abolition, 23 (2002), 75-90
Hard copy:
R. M. Karras, Slavery and Society in Medieval Scandinavia 1988 DL33.S5
R. M. Karras, ‘Concubinage and slavery in the Viking age’, Scandinavian Studies, 60 (1990):
available as photocopy in Short Loan
P. Holm, ‘The slave trade of Dublin, ninth to twelfth centuries’, Peritia, 5 (1986): available as
photocopy in Short Loan
D. Pelteret, ‘Slavery in the Danelaw’, in R. Samson, Social Approaches to Viking Studies 1991
HN540.S2
More on early medieval slavery in general:
B. Lewis, Race and Slavery in the Middle East 1990 HT1316.L4
M. McCormick, ‘New Light on the “Dark Ages”: How the Slave Trade Fuelled the Carolingian
Economy’, PP, 177 (2002), 17-54
D. Pelteret, Slavery in Early Medieval England: from the Reign of Alfred until the Twelfth Century 1995
A152.2.P4
D. Pelteret, ‘Slave raiding and slave trading in early England’, Anglo-Saxon England, 9 (1981), 99114
T. Reuter, ‘Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian empire’, TRHS, 5th ser., 35 (1985)
R. Samson, ‘The end of early medieval slavery’, in A.J. Frantzen and D. Moffat, ed. The Work of
Work: Servitude, Slavery and Labor in Medieval England 1994, 95-124 DA185.W6
For additional general reading see the lists under Lectures Three and Six in ‘General Reading by
Lecture’ on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Four (a): Saints’ Cults
Electronic primary sources:
1) Internet Medieval Sourcebook > Medieval Church> Saints and Relics, especially Guibert de
Nogent, On Saints and Their Relics.
2) P. Fouracre and R. Gerberding, Late Merovingian France, Manchester Medieval Sources on-line
http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/merovingian.htm
E-journals/resoures:
Robert Bartlett, ‘Rewriting saints’ Lives: the case of Gerald of Wales’, Speculum, 58 (1983), 598613
Catherine Cubitt, ‘Sites and sanctity: revisiting the cult of murdered and martyred Anglo-Saxon
royal saints’, EME, 9 (2000)
Catherine Cubitt, ‘Memory and narrative in the cult of early Anglo-Saxon saints’, in Y. Hen and
M. Innes, ed. The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages 2002 e-book
A. Thacker and R. Sharpe, ed. Local Saints and Local Churches 2002 BX4659.E85.L6, esp. ch. by
Cubitt, ‘Universal and local saints in Anglo-Saxon England’ (scanned chapter*)
Paul Fouracre, ‘Merovingian history and Merovingian hagiography’, PP, 127 (1990), 3-38
Paul Hayward, ‘An absent father: Eadmer, Goscelin and the cult of St Peter, the first abbot of St
Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury’, JMH, 29 (2003)
Paul Hayward, ‘Gregory the Great as “Apostle of the English” in Post-Conquest Canterbury’,
JEH, 55, 2004
Julia Smith, ‘The problem of female sanctity in Carolingian Europe c.780-920’, PP, 146 (1995), 337
Julia M.H. Smith, ‘Oral and written: saints, miracles and relics in Brittany, c.850-1250’, Speculum
60 (1990), 309-43
Alan Thacker, ‘Memorializing Gregory the Great’, EME 1998
Further reading:
S. A. Farmer, Communities of Saint Martin: legend and ritual in medieval Tours (1991)
General reading:
M. De Jong, ‘Religion’ in R. McKitterick, ed. The Early Middle Ages D121.M3
For additional general reading see the lists under Lecture Seven in ‘General Reading by Lecture’
on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Four (b): Abelard and Heloise
Electronic primary source:
Internet Medieval Sourcebook> Selected Sources > Intellectual life> 11th and 12th century
thought> Abelard and Heloise> Tierney, Abelard, History of My Calamities
E-book:
C. J. Mews, Abelard and Heloise 2005 (also at B765.A24.M4)
E-journal:
M. M. McLaughlin, ‘Abelard as autobiographer: the motives and meaning of his Story of
Calamities’, Speculum, 42 (1967), 463-88
Hard copy:
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, tr. B. Radice, rev. edn by M. Clanchy 2003 B765.A24.A4.
Excellent introduction and commentary by Clanchy
M. Clanchy, Abelard: a Medieval Life 1997 B765.A2.C5
T. G. Waldman, ‘Abbot Suger and the nuns of Argenteuil’, Traditio, 41 (1985), 239-72 PER D
Abelard and Heloise: the letters and other writings translated by W. Levitan, S. Lombardo and by B.
Thorburn (2007) B765.A21.L4
General reading:
J. Barrow , ‘Religion’ in D. Power, ed. The Central Middle Ages: Europe 950–1320 (2006), pp. 121–
48 (D200.C4) (E-BOOK*)
A. S. Abulafia, ‘Intellectual and cultural creativity’, in D. Power, ed. The Central Middle Ages:
Europe 950–1320 (2006), pp. 149–77 (D200.C4) (E-BOOK*)
For additional general reading see the lists under Lectures Seven and Five in ‘General Reading by
Lecture’ on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Five (a): Crusaders and their Motives in
the First Crusade
Electronic primary sources:
1) Internet Medieval Sourcebook> Selected Sources > The Crusades> The First Crusade>
‘Urban II’s Speech’ and ‘Attacks on the Jews’
2) Internet Medieval Sourcebook> Selected Sources > Byzantium> Byzantine Imperial
Centuries (843-1204)> The Komnenoi> The Alexiad Books 10 and 11 on the crusades>
‘The Arrival of the Crusaders’ and ‘Bad Manners of a Crusading Prince’
Complete text of The Alexiad of Anna Comnena also on Internet Medieval Sourcebook at: The
Alexiad of Anna Comnena
E-journals:
T. N. Bisson, ‘The Organized Peace in Southern France and Catalonia, ca. 1140-ca.1233’, AHR
82: 2 (1977): 290-311
P. Charanis, ‘A Greek Source on the Origin of the First Crusade’, Speculum 24:1. (1949): 93-94
J. A. Brundage, ‘Adhemar of Puy. The Bishop and his Critics’, Speculum 34 (1959)
C. Cahen, ‘An Introduction to the First Crusade’, PP 6 (1954): 6-30
H. E. J. Cowdrey, ‘The Peace and Truce of God in the Eleventh Century’, PP 46 (1970), 42-67
F. Duncalf, ‘The Peasants Crusade’ AHR, 26 (1921): 440-53
T. Head, ‘The Development of the Peace of God in Aquitaine (970-1006)’, Speculum 74 (1999):
656-86
A. C. Krey, ‘Urban's Crusade: Success or Failure?’, AHR 53 (1948): 235-50
D. C. Munro, ‘The Speech of Urban II at Clermont’, AHR 11 (1906), 231-40
D. C. Munro, ‘Did the Emperor Alexius Ask for Aid at the Council of Piacenza 1095?’, AHR 27
(1922)
D. Malkiel, ‘The underclass in the first crusade: a historiographical trend’, JMH 28 (2002), 169197
C.T. Maier, ‘The role of women in the crusade movement, a survey’, JMH 30, 2004, pp. 61-82
Further reading:
M. G. Bull, Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade BR844.B8
M. G. Bull, ‘The pilgrimage origins of the First Crusade’, History Today, 47, no. 3 (March 1997) Per
D
N. Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium; Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle
Ages. Rev. and expanded ed. (1970) BR253.C6
H. E. J. Cowdrey, Popes, Monks and Crusaders 1984 BR162.2.C6
A. C. Krey, The First Crusade. Accounts of Eye-Witnesses 1958 D161.1.K7
J. Phillips, ‘Who were the First Crusaders?’, History Today, 47, no. 3 (March, 1997)
J. Riley-Smith, ‘The First Crusade and the Persecution of the Jews’, SCH 21 (1984)
J. and L. Riley-Smith, The Crusades. Ideal and Reality 1981 D151.R4
G. Rodgers, ‘Peter Bartholomew and the role of “the poor” in the First Crusade’ in T. Reuter, ed.
Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages 1992 D133.W2.
K. M. Setton, gen. ed., A History of the Crusades, vol. i, The First Hundred Years 2nd ed. 1969 D157.S4
D. Malkiel, Reconstructing Askenaz. The human face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250 (2009) [copy
ordered for the library]
General reading:
N. Berend, ‘The expansion of Latin Christendom’, in D. Power, ed. The Central Middle Ages D200.C4
at pp. 194-206 (E-BOOK*)
C. Tyerman, God’s War (2007) [2 copies on order for library and should also be available as an eBook]
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Eight in ‘General Reading by Lecture’
on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Five (b): The Fourth Crusade: the Sack
of Constantinople
Electronic primary source:
Internet Medieval Sourcebook> Selected Sources> The Crusades> The Fourth Crusade 1204:
Collected Sources> III: The Diversion to Constantinople> Texts by Robert of Clari and
Geoffrey of Villehardouin
Additional electronic primary source:
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/1204.html (this includes a source by Nicetas Chroniates
which provides a Byzantine perspective)
E. Peters, Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229: Sources in Translation (1971) [NB this has
been ordered for the library as an E-BOOK]
Other Sources to look at:
Geoffrey of Villehardouin, ‘The Conquest of Constantinople’, in M. Shaw, ed. and trans. Joinville
and Villehardouin, 1963 D151.S4
Robert of Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople, 1966 PQ1516.R2
E-journals:
M. Angold, ‘The road to 1204: the Byzantine background to the Fourth Crusade’, JMH 25
(1999), 257-278
D. E. Queller, T. K. Compton and D. A. Campbell, ‘The Fourth Crusade: the neglected
majority’, Speculum, 49 (1974)
E-book:
Wolff, R. L. and Hazard, H. W., The Later Crusades, which is vol. 2 of Setton, K. M. et al., A
History of the Crusades, 2nd edn, 5 vols, 1955, DA157.S4, chs. 4, 5 & 6, and at
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/subcollections/HistCrusadesAbout.html
Further reading:
J. Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades, 2003 D157.H2
N. Housley, The Crusaders, 2002 D157.H6
D. Jacoby, ‘The Latin Empire of Constantinople’ in NCMH, v
D. M. Nicol, ‘The Fourth Crusade and the Greek and Latin Empires’, in NCMH, iv
D. E. Queller, Medieval diplomacy and the Fourth Crusade, 1980 D131.Q4
J. Burrow, A History of Histories (2007), material on Geoffrey of Villehardouin.
T. E. Gregory, A History of Byzantium (2005).
Hendy, ‘Byzantium, 1081-1204’, in Jotischky (ed.) The Crusades, vol. 1.
J. Longnon, ‘The Frankish States in Greece’, in Setton, Crusades, II, 235-74.
T. Madden, (ed.), The Fourth Crusade: Events, Aftermath and Perceptions (2008).
E. H. McNeal, and R. L. Wolff, ‘The Fourth Crusade’, Setton, Crusades, II, 153-185.
D. E. Queller, The Fourth Crusade: the Conquest of Constantinople, 1201-1204 (1978)
D. E. Queller, and T. F. Madden, The Fourth Crusade 2nd edn (1999) [4 copies ordered for library]
Jotischky (ed.) The Crusades: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies (2008), vol. 3.
M. Angold, The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204: a political history 2nd edn (1997)
General reading:
N. Berend, ‘The expansion of Latin Christendom’, in D. Power, ed. The Central Middle Ages D200.C4
at pp. 194-206 (scanned chapter*)
C. Tyerman, God’s War (2007) [2 copies on order for library and should also be available as an eBook]
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Eight in ‘General Reading by Lecture’
on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Six (a): Crisis of Authority: Magna
Carta
Electronic primary source:
1) http://www.bl.uk/treasures/magnacarta/translation/mc_trans.html
E-journals/resources:
R. H. Helmholz, 'Magna Carta and the ius commune'. University of Chicago Law Review, 66:2 (1999),
297-371
J. Holt, ‘The barons and the Great Charter’ English Historical Review, 70 (1955), 1-24
J. R. Maddicott, ‘Magna Carta and the local community 1215-1259’ Past & Present, 102 (1984),
25-65
E. Miller, ‘The background of Magna Carta’, Past & Present, 23 (1962), 72-83
R. Turner, ‘King John's concept of royal authority’ History of Political Thought, 17 (1996), 157-78
C. Valente, The Theory and Practice of Revolt in Medieval England (Aldershot,
2003), ch. 3 DA175.V2 (scanned chapter*)
K. Faulkner, 'The knights in the Magna Carta civil war'. In M. Prestwich R. Britnell and R. Frame
(ed.), Thirteenth Century England VIII (Proceedings of the Durham Conference, 1999) (Woodbridge:
Boydell, 2001), 1-12. DA225.T4 (scanned chapter*)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: entry on King John. Available as an online source via
the Intranet Portal.
Further reading:
C. Breay, Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths (London, 2002) JN147.B7
J. Holt, Magna Carta and medieval government (London, 1985) JN147.H6
J. Holt, Magna Carta (Cambridge, 1992) JN147.H6
J. Holt, The Northerners: a Study in the Reign of King John (Oxford, 1961) DA208.H6
J. A. P. Jones, King John and Magna Carta (Harlow, 1971), DA208.J6
F. Thompson, Magna Carta : its role in the making of the English constitution
1300-1629 (Minneapolis, 1948) JN147.T4
R. V. Turner, King John (1994), chs 7 & 8
W. L. Warren, King John (1961), chs 7 & 8
General reading:
F. Barlow, The Feudal Kingdom of England (1988), ch. 10 (scanned chapter*)
M. T. Clanchy, England and its Rulers (1998), ch. 8 (scanned chapter*)
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Eleven in ‘General Reading by Lecture’
on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Six (b): Crisis of Authority: Late
Medieval Kingship
Electronic primary source:
Medieval sources online> Chronicles of the Revolution, ed. C. Given-Wilson> 17. The Record and
the Process> pp. 172-84; see also ibid., Introduction, pp. 32-52 for commentary.
Hard copy:
Chronicles of the Revolution, ed. C. Given-Wilson, 1993, 32-52 and 172-84 DA235.C4
E-journal/resoures:
C. Barron, ‘The tyranny of Richard II’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 41 (1968), 1-18
C. Given-Wilson, ‘Richard II, Edward II, and the Lancastrian Inheritance’, EHR 109 (1994)
C. Barron, ‘The deposition of Richard II’, in J. Taylor and W. Childs, ed. Politics and Crisis in
Fourteenth Century England 1990 (scanned chapter*)
B. Wilkinson, ‘The deposition of Richard II and the Accession of Henry IV’, in Historical Studies
of the English Parliament, I: Origins to 1399, ed. E.B. Fryde and E. Miller, 1970, 329-53
JN508.F7 (scanned chapter*)
N. Saul, ‘The Kingship of Richard II’, in Richard II: the art of kingship, ed. A. Goodman and J.
Gillespie (1999) DA235.R4 (scanned chapter*)
C. Barron, ‘The Reign of Richard II’, in M. Jones, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History VI:
1300-c. 1415 D117.C3 (scanned chapter*)
Further reading:
C. Barron, ‘The art of kingship: Richard II 1377-99’, History Today, 35 (June, 1985), 30-7
M. Bennett, Richard II and the Revolution of 1399 1999, ch. 8 DA235.B4
J. Sumption, Hundred Years War III; Divided Houses (2009) [3 copies ordered for library]
General reading:
B. Guenée, States and Rulers in Later Medieval Europe 1985 D202G8 12
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Eleven in ‘General Reading by Lecture’
on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Seven (a): The Hundred Years War
Electronic primary sources:
1) Internet Medieval Sourcebook> France> Hundred Years War> Froissart, On the Hundred
Years War
2) http://www.deremilitari.org > Resources> Hundred Years War> Letter of Edward the
Black Prince about the Battle of Poitiers 1356
E-journals/resources:
J. Le Patourel, ‘Edward III and the kingdom of France’, History, 43 (1958)
H. Angsar Kelly, ‘The right to remain silent. Before and after Joan of Arc’, Speculum 68, num 4.
1993. pp. 992-1026
P. Contamine, ‘The French nobility and the war’ in K. Fowler, ed. The Hundred Years War, 1971,
135-62 DC96.F6 (scanned article*)
W.M. Ormrod, ‘The domestic response to the Hundred Years War’, in A. Curry and M. Hughes,
ed. Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War, 1994, 83-102 DC96.A7 (scanned
chapter*)
M. Vale, ‘England, France and the origins of the Hundred Years War’, in M. Jones and M. Vale,
ed. England and her Neighbours, 1066-1453, 1989 DA176.E6 (scanned article*)
Further reading: see the list under Lecture Thirteen in ‘General Reading by Lecture’ on the
module WebCT site.
General reading:
A. Curry, The Hundred Years War, 1993 DC96.C8
Seminar Seven (b): Chivalry and Medieval
Warfare
Electronic primary sources:
1) Internet Medieval Sourcebook> France> Hundred Years War> Froissart, On the Hundred
Years War
2) http://www.deremilitari.org > Resources> Hundred Years War> Life of Edward the Black
Prince by the Chandos Herald, tr. M. Pope and E.C. Lodge, pp. 1-8 (also as hard copy at
DA234.C4)
Further sources:
The Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380, ed. M.C.E. Jones, 2004
DC97.D8.D8
E-journal/resources:
J.B. Henneman, ‘The military class and the French monarchy in the late middle ages’, AHR, 83
(1978)
P. Contamine, ‘The French nobility and the war’ in K. Fowler, ed. The Hundred Years War, 1971,
135-62 DC96.F6 (Scanned article*)
M. Keen, Chivalry (chapter: ‘Introduction: the ideas of Chivalry’ CR4513.K4 (scanned chapter*)
C. Rogers, ‘Edward III and the Dialectics of Strategy, 1327-1360’, in The Wars of Edward III
(1999) DA233.W2 (scanned chapter*)
Further reading (warfare):
Andrew Ayton and P. Preston, The Battle of Crécy, 1346, 2005 DC98.5.C8.A9
A.R. Bell, War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century 2004 DA60.B4
S. Boffa, Warfare in Medieval Brabant, 1356-1406 2004 DH801.B79.B6
P. Contamine, War in the Middle Ages, 1984 D128.C6
A. Curry, ‘English armies of the fifteenth century’, in A. Curry and M. Hughes, ed. Arms, Armies
and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War, 1994, 36-69 DC96.A7
N. Hooper and M. Bennett, Cambridge Illustrated Atlas: Warfare. The Middle Ages, 768-1487, 1996
4/Atlas D114.C2
M. Livingstone and M. Witzel, The Road to Crécy: the English Invasion of France, 1346, 2005
DC98.5.C8.L4
H. Nicholson, Medieval Warfare: Theory and Practice of War in Europe, 300-1500, 2004 D128.N4 (also
e-book)
C. Rogers, ed. The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations, 1999 DA233.W2
C. Rogers, War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360, 2000 DA233.R6
M. Strickland, ed. Armies, Chivalry and Warfare in Medieval Britain and France, 1998 D128.A7
Further reading (chivalry):
C. B. Bouchard, Strong of Body, Brave and Noble. Chivalry and Society in Medieval France, 1988
DC33.2.B6
J. Bumke, The Concept of Knighthood in the Middle Ages, 1982 CR4513.B8
H. E. L. Collins, The Order of the Garter, 1348-1461: Chivalry and Politics in Late Medieval England,
2000 CR4827.C6
P. Coss, The Knight in Medieval England, 1000-1400, 1993 DA185.C6
G. Duby, The Chivalrous Society, 1977 D131.D8
G. Duby, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, 1982 DC83.D8
G. Fourquin, Lordship and Feudalism in the Middle Ages, 1976 D131.F6
R. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1999 CR4513.K2 (the chapter ‘Knighthood in
action’ is available scanned *)
M. Vale, War and Chivalry: Warfare and Aristocratic Culture in England, France and Burgundy at the End
of the Middle Ages, 1981 CR4513.V2
R. Vernier, The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War, 2004
DC97.D8.V4
General reading:
A. Curry, The Hundred Years War, 1993 DC96.C8
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Eleven in ‘General Reading by Lecture’
on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Eight (a): The Impact of the Black
Death
Electronic primary sources:
1) Internet Medieval Sourcebook> States and Society> The ‘Calamitous’ 14th Century> The
Black Death> Boccaccio, Decameron
2) Medieval sources online> R. Horrox, ed. The Black Death, nos. 1, 2, 13, 21, 44-6, 56, 58-9, 69,
73, 81, 87, 94-8, 113-16
E-journals:
J. Aberth, ‘The Black Death in the diocese of Ely: the evidence of the bishop’s register’, JMH, 2
(1995)
W. M. Bowsky, ‘The impact of the Black Death upon Sienese government and society’, Speculum,
39 (1964)
A. R. Bridbury, ‘The Black Death’, Economic History Review, new ser., 26 (1973)
R. H. Britnell, ‘Feudal reaction after the Black Death in the Palatinate of Durham’, PP, 128
(1990)
B. M. S. Campbell, ‘Matching supply to demand: crop production and disposal by English
demesnes in the century of the Black Death’, Journal of Economic History, 57 (1997), 827-58
S. K. Cohn, ‘The Black Death. End of a Paradigm’, AHR, 107, num 3. 2002. pp.703-738
W. Emery, ‘The Black Death in Perpignan’, Speculum, 42 (1967)
G. K. Fiero, ‘Death ritual in fifteenth-century manuscript illumination’, JMH, 10 (1984)
J. Hatcher, ‘England in the aftermath of the Black Death’, PP, 144 (1994)
J. B. Henneman, ‘The Black Death and royal taxation in France, 1347-1351’, Speculum, 43 (1968)
R. E. Lerner, ‘The Black Death and Western European eschatological mentalities’, AHR, 86
(1981), 533-52
R. A. Lomas, ‘The Black Death in County Durham’, JMH, 15 (1989), 127-40
M. McCormick, ‘Rats, communications and plague: towards an ecological history’, Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 34 (2003), 1-32
Z. Razi, ‘Family, land and the village community in later medieval England’, PP, 93 (1981)
M. V. Shirk, ‘The Black Death in Aragon, 1348-1351’, JMH, 7 (1981)
General reading:
O. J. Benedictow The Black Death, 1346–1353: the complete history (2004) [3 copies on order for the
library]
For additional general reading see the list under Lectures Fourteen and Fifteen in ‘General
Reading by Lecture’ on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Eight (b): Xenophobia: the Black
Death and Intolerance
Electronic sources:
1) Internet Medieval Sourcebook> States and Society> Calamitous 14th Century> Black
Death> Black Death and the Jews
2) Medieval sources online> R. Horrox, ed. The Black Death, nos. 68-75
3) Medieval sources online> T. Dean, ed. The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages, ‘Social
organisations and tensions’
E-journals/resources:
S. K. Cohn, ‘The Black Death and the burning of Jews’, PP, 196 (2007), 3-36
R. Finley, ‘The foundation of the Ghetto, Venice, the Jews and the war of the League of
Cambrai’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 126 (1982), 140-54
K. T. Utterbach, ‘ “Conversi” revert: voluntary and forced return to Judaism in the early
fourteenth century’, Church History, 64 (1995), 16-28
M. Botticini, ‘A tale of “benevolent” governments: private credit markets, public finance and the
role of Jewish lenders in medieval and Renaissance Italy’, Journal of Economic History, 60
(2000), 164-89
D. Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages, 1996, 3-39 (scanned
chapter*) and see also ‘Epilogue’ and chs. 2 and 4 D164.N4
M. Cohn, ‘Anti-Jewish violence and the place of the Jews in Christendom and in Islam: a
paradigm’, in A.S. Abulafia, ed. Religious Violence between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots,
Modern Perspectives, 2000 BM535.R4 (scanned chapter*)
R. I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society, 2nd edn, 2007 HN375.M6 (the chapter ‘Purity and
danger’ is available scanned *)
Further reading:
D. S. H. Abulafia, ‘Monarchs and minorities in the Christian western Mediterranean around
1300: Lucera and its analogues’, in Christendom and its Discontents: Exclusion, Persecution and
Rebellion, 1000-1500, ed. S.L. Waugh and P.D. Diehl, 1996 BR1609.5.C4
J. F. Baer, History of the Jews in Christian Spain, 2 vols, 1961-6, DS135.S7.B2
M. Barber, ‘Lepers, Jews and Moslems: the plot to overthrow Christendom in 1321’, in M.
Barber, ed. Crusaders and Heretics, 12th-14th Centuries, 1995 BR270.B2
D. Calabi, ‘The Jews and the city in the Mediterranean area’, in A. Cowan, ed. Mediterranean Urban
Culture, 1400-1700, 2000, DE96.M4
C. Cluse, ed. The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries), 2004 DS135.E81.I6
W. C. Jordan, ‘Home again: the Jews in the kingdom of France, 1315-1322’, in W.C. Jordan,
Ideology and Royal power in Medieval France: Kingship, Crusades and the Jews, 2001 DC83.J6
G. Langmuir, History, Religion and Anti-Semitism, 1990 DS145.L2
G. Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Anti-Semitism, 1990 DS145.L2
J. R. Marcus, The Jew in the Medieval World, 1977 DS134.M2
M. D. Meyerson, A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain, 2004 DS135.S7.M4
K. Stow, Alienated Minority, 1992 DS124.S8
General reading:
O. J. Benedictow The Black Death, 1346–1353: the complete history (2004) [3 copies on order for the
library]
For additional general reading see the list under Lecture Fourteen and Fifteen in ‘General
Reading by Lecture’ on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Nine (a): Anticlericalism and the
Lollards
Electronic source:
1) Medieval Sources online> R.N. Swanson, ed. Catholic England: Faith, Religion and Observance
before the Reformation, nos. 47 and 50
2) Internet Medieval Sourcebook> Medieval Church> Medieval Heresy> Lollardy> The
condemnation of Wycliffe, 1382, and Wycliffe’s reply, 1384
E-journals/resources:
M. Aston, ‘Lollardy and sedition, 1381-1431’, PP 17 (1960), 1-44
R. Brooke, ‘The Laity and the Church’ in R. B. and C. N. L. Brooke, Popular Religion in the Middle
Ages, 1984 BR253.B7 (scanned chapter*)
W. R. Cook, ‘John Wyclif and Hussite theology 1415-1436’, Church History, 42 (1973)
R. G. Davies, ‘Lollardy and locality’, TRHS, 6th ser. 1 (1991), 191-212
M. Groom, 'England: piety, heresy and anti-clericalism', in Rigby, S. H. (ed.), A companion to
Britain in the later middle ages (2003), pp. 381-95 (scanned chapter*)
M. D. Lambert, M. D., Medieval heresy: popular movements from the Gregorian reform to the Reformation,
3rd edn 2002, ch 14 (scanned chapter*) and see also ch. 15 BT1319.L2
S. McSheffrey, ‘Heresy, Orthodoxy and English Vernacular Religion 1480–1525’, PP 186 (2005),
47–80
H. G. Richardson, 'Heresy and the Lay Power under Richard II', EHR 101 (1936), pp. 1-28
R. N. Swanson, ‘Literacy, heresy, history and orthodoxy: perspectives and permutations for the
later Middle Ages’, in P. Biller and A. Hudson (eds), Heresy and literacy, 1000-1530, Cambridge
1994, 279-93 (scanned chapter*)
Further reading (anticlericalism):
J. Bossy, Christianity in the West 1400-1700, 1985, ch. 4 BR270.B6
M. Burleigh, ‘Anticlericalism in fifteenth-century Prussia: the clerical contribution reconsidered’,
in C. Barron and C. Harper-Bill, ed. The Church in Pre-Reformation Society, 1985, pp. 38-47
BR750.C4
J. Van Engen, ‘Anticlericalism among the Lollards’, in P.A. Dykema and H.A. Oberman, ed.
Anticlericalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1993, pp. 53-63 BR735.A6
D. A. Eltis, ‘Tensions between clergy and laity in some western German cities in the later middle
ages’, JEH, 43 (1992)
P. Heath, ‘Urban piety in the later middle ages: the evidence of Hull wills’, in R.B. Dobson, ed.
The Church, Politics and Patronage in the Fifteenth Century 1984 BR750.D6
J. Henderson, Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence 1994 BX1548.F55.H4
B. R. McRee, ‘Religious gilds and the regulation of behaviour in late medieval towns’ in J.
Rosenthal and C. Richmond, ed. People, Politics and Community in the Later Middle Ages, 1987,
DA245.P4
R. N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515, 1995, chs. 1 and 3 BR735.S9
Further reading (Lollards):
M. Aston, ‘Bishops and Heresy: The Defence of the Faith’, in her Faith and Fire: Popular and
Unpopular Religion, 1350-1600 (1993)
M. Harvey, ‘Lollardy and the Great Schism: some contemporary perceptions’, in A. Hudson and
M. Wilks, ed. From Ockham to Wyclif, 1987, 385-96 BR140.S82/5 (scanned chapter*)
A. Hudson, ‘Laicus litteratus: the paradox of Lollardy’, in P.P.A. Biller & A. Hudson, eds, Heresy
and Literacy 1000-1500 (1995)
A. Hudson, ‘The mouse in the pyx: popular heresy and the Eucharist’, photocopy in Hallward
(published in N. Crossley-Holland, ed. Eternal Values in Medieval Life, 1991)
A. Hudson, The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and the Lollard Heresy, 1988 BX4901.2.H8
A. Kenny, ed. Wyclif in his Times, 1986 BX4905.W9
A. E. Larsen, 'Are All Lollards Lollards?', in Somerset, F., Havens, J. C., Pitard, D. G., eds,
Lollards and their influence in later medieval England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003), 59-72
K. B. McFarlane, John Wycliffe and the Beginnings of English Nonconformity, 1952 BX4905.M2
K. B. McFarlane, Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights, Oxford 1972
S. McSheffrey, Gender and heresy: Women and men in Lollard communities, 1420-1530 (1995)
H. Phillips, ‘John Wyclif and the religion of the people’, in J. Brown and W. Stoneman, ed. A
Distinct Voice: Medieval Studies in Honor of Leonard E. Boyle 1997, 561-90 CB351.D4
T. J. Renna, ‘Wyclif’s attacks on the monks’, in A. Hudson and M. Wilks, ed. From Ockham to
Wyclif, 1987, 267-80 BR140.S82/5
R. Rex, The Lollards (2002)
E. C. Tatnall, ‘The condemnation of John Wycliff at the council of Constance’, in G.J. Cuming,
ed. Councils and Assemblies, SCH, 8 (1971) BR140.S8
General reading:
R. B. and C.N.L. Brooke, Popular Religion in the Middle Ages 1984 BR253.B7
For additional general reading see the lists under Lectures Twelve, Sixteen and Seventeen in
‘General Reading by Lecture’ on the module WebCT site.
Seminar Nine (b): Popular Rebellion (on one of
three case studies)
Case Study One: the Jacquerie: France, 1358
Electronic sources:
Internet Medieval Sourcebook> Economic Life > Rural Life > The Peasantry > Peasant Revolts
> Froissart, The Jacquerie
Sources in hard copy:
S.K. Cohn, ed. Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders 2004, nos. 91-120
HN11.P6 (nos 121-31 availed as scanned chapter*)
E-journal and book:
D. M. Bessen, ‘The Jacquerie: class war or co-opted rebellion?’, JMH, 11 (1985)
R. Hilton, ed. Bond Men made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 1973
DA235.H4 (also as e-book)
Further reading:
R. Cazelles, ‘The Jacquerie’, in R.H. Hilton and T.H. Aston, ed. The English Rising of 1381 1984
DA235.H4
R. Fossier, ‘The great trial’, in R. Fossier, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, III:
1250-1520 1998 pp. 52-118 CB351.C2
P. Freedman, ‘Peasant anger in the middle ages’, in B. Rosenwein, ed. Anger’s Past 1998 171-88
D127.A6
H.A. Landsberger, ed. Peasant Protest: Peasant Movements and Social Change 1974 HD1521.R8
M. Mollat and P. Wolff, Popular Rebellions of the Late Middle Ages 1973, pp. 125-31 D202.M6
J. Sumption, The Hundred Years War, II: Trial by Fire 1999, pp. 327-36 DC96.S8
Case Study Two: the Revolt of the Ciompi: Italy, 1378-82
Sources in hard copy:
S.K. Cohn, ed. Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders 2004, nos. 121-31
HN11.P6
Further reading:
G.A. Brucker, Florentine Politics and Society, 1343-1378 1962 DG737.26.B7
G.A. Brucker, ‘The Ciompi revolution’, in N. Rubinstein, ed. Florentine Studies: Politics and Society in
Renaissance Florence 1980, 314-56 DG737.4.R8 (Scanned chapter*)
S.K. Cohn, The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence, 1980 DG737.4.C6
S.K. Cohn, Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434, 1999 HD1536.I8C6
S. Cohn, ‘Florentine insurrections, 1342-1385: a comparative perspective’, in R.H. Hilton and
T.H. Aston, ed. The English Rising of 1381 1984 DA235.H4
J. Larner, Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216-1380 1980 DG530.L2
M. Lauro, ed. Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian Cities, 1200-1500 1972 DG530.M2
M. Mollat and P. Wolff, Popular Rebellions of the Late Middle Ages 1973, pp. 142-61 D202.M6
J. Najemy, ‘The dialogue of power in Florentine politics’, in A. Molho, K. Rauflaab, A. Kurt and
J. Emlen, ed. City-States in Classical antiquity and Medieval Italy 1991 pp. 269-88 DF285.C4
R. Rooner, ‘Labour conditions in Florence around 1400’, in N. Rubinstein, ed. Florentine Studies:
Politics and Society in Renaissance Florence 1980, pp. 277-313 DG737.4.R8
R. Trexler, ‘Follow the flag: the Ciompi revolt seen from the streets’, Bibliothèque d’humanisme et
Renaissance, 46 (1984), 357-92 PER PN
R. Trexler, ‘Neighbours and comrades: the revolutionaries of Florence, 1378’, Social Analysis, 14
(1983), 53-105; available as Hallward photocopy
Case Study Three: the Peasants’ Revolt: England, 1381
Electronic primary source:
Internet Medieval Sourcebook> Economic Life > Rural Life > The Peasantry > Peasant Revolts
> Anonimalle Chronicle, Peasants’ Revolt
Source in hard copy:
R. B. Dobson, ed. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, 2nd edn 1983 DA235.D6 (and see below for
scanned introduction)
E-book:
R. Hilton, ed. Bond Men made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381 1973
DA235.H4 (also as e-book)
E-journals/resources:
Dobson, B., (1983) "introduction to the second edition" from Dobson, Richard Barrie, The
Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (scanned chapter*)
N. Brooks, ‘The organisation and achievements of the peasants of Kent and Essex in 1381’, in
H. Mayr-Harting and R.I. Moore, ed. Studies in Medieval History Presented to R.H.C. Davis, 1985,
pp. 247-70 D117.S8 (scanned chapter*)
C. Dyer, ‘The social and economic background to the rural revolt of 1381’, in R.H. Hilton and
T.H. Aston, ed. The English Rising of 1381 1984 DA235.H4 (in the same volume cf. also
chapters by Faith, Dobson, Butcher and Tuck) (scanned chapter*)
Rodney Hilton’s Middle Ages: an Exploration of Historical Themes, ed. C. Dyer, P. Coss and C.
Wickham, published as PP, Supplement 2 (2007), esp. articles by Razi and Cohn (also
available at D117.R6)
R. B. Goheen, ‘Peasant politics? Village community and the demands of the crown in the
fifteenth century’, AHR, 96 (1991)
R. H. Hilton, ‘Peasant movements in England before 1381’, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 2
(1949), 117-36
M. Müller, ‘The aims and organisation of a peasant revolt in early fourteenth-century Wiltshire’,
Rural History, 14 (2003), 1-20
W. M. Ormrod, ‘The Peasants’ Revolt and the government of England’, Journal of British Studies,
29 (1990), 1-30
P. R. Schofield, ‘Peasants and the manor court: gossip and litigation in a Suffolk village at the
close of the thirteenth century’, PP, 159 (1998)
Further reading:
R. B. Dobson, ed. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, 2nd edn 1983, introduction DA235.D6 *
E. B. Fryde, Peasants and Landlords in Later Medieval England, 1996 DA235.F7
E. B. Fryde, The Great Revolt of 1381 (Historical Association Pamphlet, 1981) D8.H4.G100
S. Justice, Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381, 1994 PR275.H5
M. Mollat and P. Wolff, Popular Rebellions of the Late Middle Ages 1973 D202.M6
W. M. Ormrod, Political Life in Medieval England, 1300-1450 1995 DA225.O7
E. Searle and R. Burghart, ‘The defence of England and the Peasants’ Revolt’, Viator, 3 (1972)
PER A
C. Valente, Theory and Practice of Revolt in Medieval England 2003 DA175.V2
J. Sumption, Hundred Years War III; Divided Houses (2009), pp. 413–55 [3 copies ordered for
library] – also covers revolts in Flanders
General reading: see list under Lecture Eighteen in ‘General Reading by Lecture’ on module
WebCT site.
Seminar Ten: The Variety of Sources
For this seminar there is only one article to read – but it is quite tough. Notice the links that you
can draw with the issues being raised on the Learning History module as well topics you have
studied throughout this module.
E-journal:
W. Pohl, ‘History in fragments: Montecassino’s politics of memory’, EME 10 (2001), 343-374
Electronic primary source: there is no readily available source which is discussed in Pohl’s
article. However, there are 2 useful websites which help to set his work in a wider context:
www.officine.it/montecassino (site of the Abbey of Montecassino) and www.osb.org (site of
Benedictine Order, with translations of the Rule of Benedict)
See also Paul the Deacon’s History of the Lombards Book 1 Chapter 26 and Book 4 Chapter 17
where Paul deals with the history of Montecassino:
http://www.northvegr.org/lore/langobard/index.php
General reading: see the list under Lecture Nineteen in ‘General Reading by Lecture’ on the
module WebCT site.
REFERENCE BOOKS
You will constantly find yourself coming up against names of people and places that will be
unfamiliar to you. What is a Visigoth? Who were the Cistercians? When did Abelard live? Why
did Benedict write a Rule (and which Benedict)? Where is Gaul? This is one of the things that
can make the study of history daunting. We don’t assume that you have this knowledge: one
purpose of this module is to make the Middle Ages familiar to beginners. So don’t despair: help
is at hand. On the top floor of the Hallward Library is a reference section next to the
information desk containing encyclopaedias, dictionaries and other reference works.
Atlases are mostly kept in the atlas stands on Levels 2, 3 and 4, though a few of them are
shelved with the ordinary book collection and these ones can be borrowed. Modern atlases with
gazetteers, e.g. The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, 11th edn (2003) G1021 TIM, can be used
to find places if you know the modern form of the place-name. Do also use historical atlases (see
below) to study military campaigns, migrations, trends, trade and so on, but remember that these
maps are modern interpretations and open to debate.
Encyclopaedias: J. Strayer, ed. Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 4/Enc. D114.D4. If the
query is about Anglo-Saxon England, try M. Lapidge et al. ed. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of AngloSaxon England 4/Enc DA152.B5. A word of warning: be cautious about Wikipedia (anonymous
and with no quality control) and about Encarta (not necessarily accurate). Similarly, although the
web version of the New Advent Catholic Encyclopaedia can sometimes be useful on
ecclesiastical topics, the information is 1917-vintage and on many subjects (e.g. the emergence of
parishes) is far out of date.
Chronology: to find out what was happening in a given year, look at H.E.L. Mellersh,
Chronology of the Ancient World 10000 BC-AD799 4/Enc D11.M4 or R.L. Storey, Chronology of the
Medieval World, 800-1491 4/Enc. D11.S8. These are especially useful for comparing what was
going on in different places at the same time. See also the helpful flow-charts in D. Hill, Atlas of
Anglo-Saxon England (Level 4 Atlas Stand, DA152.H4), pp. 28-9, 33, 35.
Family trees: you will find family trees in quite a few textbooks for this period, though
they may not always be singing from the same hymn sheet. The best starting points are the tables
at the back of NCMH, ii and iii, D117.C3, which together cover the period c.700-1024. These
can be supplemented for the period before 700 by the family trees for the Merovingian Franks in
I. Wood, The Merovingian Kingdoms, DC65.W6, pp. 344-9, and for the later period by (for France)
J. Dunbabin, France in the Making DC82.D8 and (for England) M. Clanchy, England and its Rulers
DA175.C5. The tables at the back of Z.N. Brooke, A History of Europe 911-1198 3rd edn (1951)
D102.M4 are also useful.
Historical atlases: R.I. Moore, ed. The Hamlyn Historical Atlas Oversize D117.H2; Angus
MacKay and D. Ditchburn, ed. Atlas of Medieval Europe D117.A8; N. Hooper and M. Bennett, ed.
Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: the Middle Ages 768-1487 (1996) Oversize D114.C2; D. Hill,
Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England Level 4 Atlas Stand DA152.H4 – excellent and of wider use than its
title suggests; particularly good on Viking raids. You will also find useful maps in R. McKitterick,
The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians DC70.M2, C. Wickham, Early Medieval Italy
DG503.W4 and T. Reuter, Germany in the Early Middle Ages DD126.R4.