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Image: Trier, Stadtbibiliothek, 'Codex Egberti', MS. 24, Crucifixion,c.980
Martyrdom of St.Polycarp
The passions of Sts. Perpetual and Felicity (203)
St. Augustine, City of God, Book 22, chapters 8-10: on miracles
Life of St. Antony
Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration #21, on Athanasius of AlexandriaP.R.L. Brown, 'Arbiters of the holy: the Christian holy man in late antiquity' in P.R.L. Brown, Authority and the sacred, New York, 1995, 55-78 [on reserve]
Thomas Head, 'The cult of saints and their relics'
Supplementary bibliography:
T.D. Barnes, From Eusebius to Augustine, Brookfield, Vt., 1994 [BR 205 B38 1994]
P.R.L. Brown, The Cult of the Saints, Chicago, 1981 [BX 2333 B74]
P.R.L. Brown, 'The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity,' Journal of Roman Studies 61 (1971): 80-101[DF 11 J86 SER]
H. Chadwick, Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Early Church, Brookfield, Vt., 1991 [BR 165 C483 1991]
E.R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety, Cambridge, 1965 [BL 53 D6]
C. Hahn, 'Seeing and believing: the construction of sanctity in early-medieval saints' shrines, Speculum 72 (1997): 1079-1106 [PN 661 .S6 SER]
G. Fowden, 'The Pagan Holy Man in Late Antique Society,' Journal of Hellenic Studies 102 (1982): 33-59 [DF 10 J86 SER]
A. Momigliano, ed. Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century, Oxford, 1963 [BR 205 C65 1963]
ORB: Hagiography
Eusebius describes the conversion of Constantine
Constantine, Laws for Christians
Council of Sardica, canon V (343)
St. Ambrose describes the finding of the bodies of Sts. Gervasius and Protasius
St. Ambrose, Letter to Valentinian (386)
Theodoret describes how St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, rebuked Theodosius I and brought him to penance
Pope Leo I (r. 441-460) articulates the notion of the petrine primacy
Pope Gregory I, Letter to Mauricius Augustus; extracts from his Book of pastoral rule
T.D. Barnes, 'The Constantinian reformation' in T.D. Barnes From Eusebius to Augustine: selected papers, 1982-1993, Brookfield, Vt., 1994, #V [on reserve]
H. Chadwick, 'The role of the Christian bishop in ancient society' in H. Chadwick, Heresy and orthodoxy in the early church, Brookfield, Vt., 1991, #III [on reserve]
B. Tierney, The crisis of church and state, 1050-1300, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1964, 1-15 [on reserve]
Supplementary bibliography:
T.D. Barnes From Eusebius to Augustine: selected papers, 1982-1993, Brookfield, Vt., 1994 [BR 205 B38 1994]
H. Chadwick, Heresy and orthodoxy in the early church, Brookfield, Vt., 1991 [BR 165 C483 1991]
T.B.A.
Gregory of Tours describes the conversion and reign on Clovis, King of the Franks (†511)
Bede comments on the career of Pope Gregory I (r.590-604)
Pope Gregory I, Letters to Queen Brunichild, to Mellitus, and to Augustine
Bede, Lives of the holy abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow
Monk Jonas, Life of St. Columban
Willibald's Life of St. Boniface
Rudolf of Fulda's Life of Leoba
Christopher Dawson, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture,1950; rpnt. New York, 1958, 26-83 [BR 115 C5 D37 1958—on reserve]
N.B. If you have never read, or if you wish to refresh your memory, consult the Rule of St. Columba and the Rule of St. Benedict [extracts]
Supplementary bibliography:
P. J. Geary, Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages, Princeton, 1978 [BX 2333 G42—on reserve]
C.H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism, New York, 1984 [BX 2470 .L39 1984]
J. McNamara, et al., ed. and trans., Sainted Women of the Dark Ages, Durham, 1996 [BX 4656 .S28 1992]
J.T. Schulenburg, Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500-1100, Chicago, 1998
R. van Dam, Saints and their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul, Princeton, 1993 [BX 4659 .F8 V36 1993]
PART I: RELIGION AND FEUDAL SOCIETY
T. Evergates, trans./ed., Feudal society in medieval France: documents from the county of Champagne, Philadelphia, 1993, 1-27 [photocopy on reserve]
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 386- 406 [on reserve]
D. White, Medieval History: a Source Book, Homewood, Ill., 1965, 251–287 [on reserve]
Southern, chapters 1-2 [on reserve]
Recommended: E.A.R. Brown, 'The tyranny of a construct: feudalism and historians of medieval Europe', American Historical Review, 79 (1974): 1063-1088
Supplementary bibliography:
K. Ashley & P. Sheingorn, Writing Faith: Text, Sign, & History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy, Chicago, 1999
M. Bloch, Feudal Society, Chicago, 1961 [D 131 B5 1961]
*F. Cheyette, ed., Lordship and Community in Medieval Europe, New York, 1968
G. Duby, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, Chicago, 1980 [HN 425 D78313]
T. Evergates, trans./ed., Feudal society in medieval France: documents from the county of Champagne, Philadelphia, 1993 [DC 611 /C457 F48 1993]
H. Fichtenau, Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders, Chicago, 1991 [BR 375 F5313 1991]
R. Fossier, Peasant Life in the Medieval West, New York, 1988 [HD 1531.5 F6713 1988]
F. Ganshof, Feudalism, 2e, New York, 1961 [JC 111 .G19 1961]
S. Reynolds, Fiefs and Vassals: the Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted, New York, 1994 [D 117 .R49 1994]
T. Reuter, ed., The Medieval Nobility, New York, 1979
J. Strayer, Feudalism, Princeton, 1965, [JC 111 .S7]
T. Evergates, trans./ed., Feudal society in medieval France: documents from the county of Champagne, Philadelphia, 1993, 123-144 [photocopy on reserve]
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 321-327 [on reserve]
T. Head and R. Landes, The Peace of God, Ithaca, 1992, 327–342 [photocopy on reserve]
D. White, Medieval History: a Source Book, Homewood, Ill., 1965, 296-304, 308-310 [on reserve]L.K. Little, 61-69 [on reserve]
Southern, 154-169 [on reserve]
G. Tellenbach, Church, State and Christian Society at the time of the Investiture Contest, 1940; rpnt. Toronto, 1991, 61-88 (1-60 recommended but not required) [BX 1790 T4413 1991—on reserve]
Vauchez, 39-44 [on reserve]
Supplementary bibliography:
W. Braunfels, Monasteries of Western Europe, the Architecture of the Orders, Princeton, 1972 [NA 4853 B713]
H.E.J. Cowdrey, The Cluniacs and Gregorian Reform, Oxford, 1970
G. Constable, Cluniac Studies, Brookfield, Vt., 1980 [BX 3460 C66]
T. Head and R. Landes, The Peace of God, Ithaca, 1992, 327–342 [BT 736.4 P4485 1992
*G. Ladner, The Idea of Reform, Cambridge, 1959
C.H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism, New York, 1984 [BX 2470 L39 1984]
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 608- 635 [on reserve]
B. Tierney, The crisis of church and state, 1050-1300, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1964, 48-52, 74-95 [on reserve]
Pope Gregory VII, Second excommunication and deposition of Henry IV, 1080
Southern, 134-154 (118-134 recommended but not required) [on reserve]
G. Tellenbach, Church, State and Christian Society at the time of the Investiture Contest, 1940; rpnt. Toronto, 1991, 89-125 [BX 1790 T4413 1991—on reserve]
Supplementary bibliography:
*U.–R. Blumenthal, The Investiture Controversy: Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Centuries, Philadelphia, 1988 [BX 1198 .B5813 1988]
H.E.J. Cowdrey, The Age of the Abbot Desiderius: Montecassino, the Papacy, and the Normans in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Oxford, 1983 [BX 2624 B295 C68 1913]
H.E.J. Cowdrey, The Cluniacs and Gregorian Reform, Oxford, 1970
*G. Ladner, The Idea of Reform, Cambridge, 1959
I.S. Robinson, The Papacy, 1073–1198, Cambridge, 1990 [BX 1210 R63 1990]
G. Tellenbach, Church, State, and Christian Society at the Time of the Investiture Controversy, Oxford, 1948 [BX 1790 T4413 1991]
Numbers, 31; Deuteronomy, 20; Joshua 8.1-29; Psalm 137; Matthew 5.1-26, 38-48; 10.5-42, Revelation 19.11-21, 20-21
J. Kirshner & K.F. Morrision, eds. University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, v. 4: Medieval Europe, Chicago, 1986, 26-38 [CB 245 U64 1986 v.4—on reserve]
Diana Webb, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West, London, 2001, 28-47 [photocopy on reserve]
Pope Leo IV: Forgiveness for those who die in battle with the heathen, 853
Pope John VIII: Indulgence for fighting the heathen, 878
Ralph Glaber, On the first millenium/pilgrimage to Jerusalem
Annalist of Nieder-Altaich: The German Pilgrimage of 1064–1065Marcus Bull, 'Origins' in J. Riley-Smith, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, Oxford, 1995, 13-33 [D 157 .048 1997—on reserve]
S. Runciman, ‘The Pilgrimages to Palestine before 1095’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 68-78 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
Diana Webb, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West, London, 2001, 11-28 [BV 896 .E85 W43—book on reserve]
Supplementary bibliography:
J. Brundage, ‘Holy War and the Medieval Lawyers,’ in T. Murphy, ed. The Holy War, Columbus, 1976, 99–140 [D 160 C66 1974]
J. Brundage, Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader, Madison, 1969
C. Cahen, ‘The Turkish Invasion: The Selch¸kids’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 135–176 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
P. Charanis, ‘The Byzantine Empire in the Eleventh Century’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 177–219 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
C. Erdmann, The Origin of the Idea of the Crusade, Princeton, 1977 (English translation)
H.A.R. Gibb, ‘The Caliphate and the Arab States in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 81–98 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
*J. Gilchrist, ‘The Erdmann Thesis and the Canon Law, 1083–1141’ in P.W. Edbury, ed., Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff, 1985, 37–45
B.Z. Kedar, Crusade and Mission: European Approaches towards the Muslims, Princeton, 1984 [BV 2625 K43 1984]
H. Kr¸ger, ‘The Italian Cities and the Arabs before 1095’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 40–53 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
B. Lewis, ‘The Isma ‘ilites and the Assassins’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 99–132 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
R. Lopez, ‘The Norman Conquest of Sicily’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 54–67 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
Michael Psellus, Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: the Chronographia of Michael Psellus, Harmondsworth, 1966
F. Russell, The Just War in the Middle Ages, New York, 1975 [BT 736.2 .R85]
J. Sumption, Pilgrimage: an Image of Medieval Religion, London, 1975 [BR 252 .S9 1975
B. Wheeler, ‘The Reconquest of Spain before 1095’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 31–39 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
P. Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 3e, Peterborough, Ont., 2003, 418- 425 [on reserve]
Pope Urban's sermon at Clermont (1095): five versions
Ekkehard of Aurach recounts the opening of the first crusade
Albert of Aix & Ekkehard of Aurach recount Count Emico's slaughter of the Jews of Mainz
Peter the Hermit and the Popular Crusade: collected accounts
J. Riley–Smith, The Crusades: a short history, New Haven, 1987, 1–20 [D 157 R54 1987—book on reserve]
Vauchez, 45-50 [on reserve]
Supplementary bibliography:
*A. Abulafia, ‘Invectives against Christianity in the Hebrew Chronicles of the First Crusade,’ in P. Edbury, ed., Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff, 1985, 66–72
E. Blake & C. Morris, ‘A Hermit Goes to War: Peter and the Origins of the First Crusade,’ Studies in Church History 21(1984)
*E. Cowdrey, ‘Canon Law and the First Crusade,’ in B. Z. Kedar, ed., The Horns of Hattin, Jerusalem, 1992, 41–48
*E. Cowdrey, ‘Martyrdom and the First Crusade,’ in P. Edbury, ed., Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff, 1985, 46–56
*E. Cowdrey, ‘Pope Gregory VII’s Crusading Plans of 1074,’ in B.Z. Kedar, H. Mayer, & R.Smail, eds., Outremer. Studies in the History of the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem presented to Joshua Prawer, Jerusalem, 1982, 27–40
F. Duncalf, ‘The Councils of Piacenza and Clermont,’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 220–252 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
F. Duncalf, ‘The First Crusade: Clermont to Constantinope,’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 253–279 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095–1127, Knoxville, 1969 [D 161.1 F6913]
J. Riley–Smith, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading, London, 1986 [D 161.2 R44 1986]
*J. Riley–Smith, The First Crusaders, 1095–1131, Cambridge, 1977
*R. Somerville, ‘The Council of Clermont (1095), and Latin Christian Society,’ Archivum Historić Pontificić 12(1974): 55–90
15. November, The First and Second Crusades as 'aristocratic crusades'
The Crusaders at Constantinople: collected accounts
Conquest of Antioch
Conquest of Jerusalem: collected accounts
Bernard of Clairvaux, In praise of the new knighthood
Eugenius III: Call for Second Crusade, 1. Dec. 1145
William of Tyre describes the failure of the Second Crusade
Criticism of crusading in the Annales herbipolensis [Wurzburg annals], c.1147
Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia for the Second Crusade
J. Riley–Smith, The Crusades: a short history, New Haven, 1987, 20-39, 93-104 [D 157 R54 1987—book on reserve]
Supplementary bibliography:
Primitive Rule of the Templars c. 1129
M. Barber, ed., The Military Orders: Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick, London, 1995
*M. Barber, The New Knighthood, a History of the Order of the Temple, Cambridge, 1994
V. Berry, ‘The Second Crusade,’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 463–512 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
*J. Brundage, ‘Prostitution, Miscegenation and Sexual Purity in the First Crusade,’ in P. Edbury, ed., Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff, 1985, 57–65
M. Bull, Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade, Oxford, 1993
*G. Constable, ‘The Financing of the Crusades of the Twelfth Century,’ in B.Z. Kedar, H. Mayer, & R.Smail, eds., Outremer. Studies in the History of the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem presented to Joshua Prawer, Jerusalem, 1982, 64–88
*G. Constable, ‘The Second Crusade as seen by Contemporaries’ Traditio ix(1953): 213–279
*E. Cowdrey, ‘Martyrdom and the First Crusade,’ in P. Edbury, ed., Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff, 1985, 46–56
F. Duncalf, ‘The First Crusade: Clermont to Constantinope,’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 253–279 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
A. Forey, Military Orders and Crusades, Brookfield, Vt, 1994 [CR 4705 .F67 1993]
A. Forey, ‘The Military Orders, 1120–1312’ in J. Riley–Smith, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, Oxford, 1997,184–216 [D 157 .048 1997]
*M. Gervers, ed., The Second Crusade and the Cistercians, New York, 1992—a valuable, diverse collection of essays
H. Gibb, ‘Zengi and the Fall of Edessa,’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 449–462 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
*A. Grabois, ‘The Crusade of Louis VII: a Reconsideration’ in P. Edbury, ed., Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff, 1985, 94–104
M. Keen, Chivalry, New Haven, 1984
*Odo of Deuil, De profectione ludovici VII in orientem/The Journey of Louis VII to the East, New York, 1948
*J. Richard, ‘Hospitals and Hospital Congregations in the Latin Kingdom during the First Period of the Frankish Conquest, in B.Z. Kedar, H. Mayer, & R.Smail, eds., Outremer. *J. Riley–Smith, The First Crusaders, 1095–1131, Cambridge, 1977
S. Runciman, ‘The First Crusade: Constantinople to Antioch,’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 280–307 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
S. Runciman, ‘The First Crusade: Antioch to Ascalon,’ in K. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, Volume I, Madison, 1969, 308–342 [D 157 H4 1969 v.1—on reserve]
M Watt, ‘Islamic Conceptions of Holy War,’ in T. Murphy, ed. The Holy War, Columbus, 1976, 141–156 [D 160 C66 1974]
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