Week 1 (August 24-26):      Introduction.

• A history of words: German, Teutonicus, Deutsch [Fuhrmann 19-23; Jeep 265-267]; see the entry “German” in the Online Etymologyical Dictionary
• A little geography – where was medieval Germany [Fuhrmann 6-16]; see a map of Central Europe, ca. 1180, the German lands on the Ebstorf map of the early 1200s, and a map of present-day Germany
• Problems of historiography [Reuter 1-17; Jeep 362-364]

 Week 2 (August 29-September 2):    Sources

• Thietmar of Merseburg, a key source of Ottonian Germany [Warner 1-5, 16-26, 49-62; Jeep 754-755]; see a facsimile of a page in Thietmar’s Chronicon
• Chronicles: Hermann of Reichenau [Robinson 1-20]
• Chronicles: Berthold of Reichenau [Robinson 20-41]

Week 3 (September 5-9):    Carolingian Germany

• Monday, 09/05: Labor Day, no classes
• Franks, the Frankish kingdom, and Carolingian Francia [Reuter 21-44; Jeep 1-2, 12, 96-98, 98-102, 469-470, 472-473]; see a map of the Carolingian Empire; see a passage from the Salian Law, Einhard’s Life of Charlemagne, the Capitulary for Saxony, the Life of Liutberga
• The East Frankish kingdom and its constituent parts [Reuter 70-111; Jeep xxxv, 696-697]; see a map of the division of the Carolingian Empire (ca. 842) and the Annals of Xanten on the situation in the years following the Treaty of Verdun; see also the plan of a Benedictine abbey in the library of the St. Gall Abbey (ca. 820)

Week 4 (September 12-16):   “The iron century” (882-983)

• Late Carolingian Germany [Reuter 115-147; Warner 68-76 and 78-81; Jeep 87-95, 106, 107, 340-341, 357-358, 463-465, 471-472]; see a map of the Late Carolingian kingdoms; read Ekkehard of St. Gall on his abbey and an English translation of the Hildebrandslied; see also an image of the Holy Lance and a late Carolingian representation of Pope Gregory the Great writing along with his scribes
• Otto I [Reuter 148-174; Warner 89-123]
• Otto II [Reuter 174-180; Warner 123-148; Jeep 141-142, 371-372, 443-444, 586-587, 588-589, 590-591, 592, 752-753]; see a map of the stem duchies and a map of the Ottonian Empire in ca. 962; see also a reconstruction of the Slavic temple at Gross Raden and; see also the ivory of Otto II and Theophanu

Week 5 (September 19-23):       Germany under the Ottonians

• Kingship, patronage, and rebellion [Reuter 183-220]
• Ottonian society [Reuter 221-236]
• Ottonian religious life [Reuter 236-252; Jeep 50, 81, 267-268, 374-375, 497-498, 595-605, 643-645]; see the interior of the St. George Church in Oberzell, the St. Michael Church in Hildesheim (built by St. Bernward of Hildesheim), an image of the Benedictine convent of St. Cyriacus in Gernrode (near Quedlinburg), and an example of westwork; read the Life of Bishop Burchard of Worms

Week 6 (September 26-30):      Ottonian hegemony in Europe

• Ottonian art; see an illumination from the Egbert Psalter, another from the Gero Codex; see a page from the Bamberg Apocalpyse and images of Otto II by the Gregory Master and of Otto III in the Aachen Gospels; read Dulcitius, a medieval play by Hrosvit of Gandersheim (with Latin text)
• The Slavs and the eastern frontier [Reuter 253-264; Warner 149-204]
• The Empire [Reuter 265-286; Jeep 39-41, 200-202, 641-643]; see an image of Otto III on the throne (from the Gospel of Otto III)

Week 7 (October 3-7):    Henry II and Thietmar of Merseburg: the emperor and the chronicler 

• The last Ottonian? [Warner 205-234]; see a portrait of Henry II  near one of the entrances into the Cathedral of Bamberg and an image of his coronation in a Regensburg sacramentary
• The first Salian? [Warner 235-385; Robinson 58-64]
• Reading from the chronicle: a seminar

Week 8 (October 10-14):    Germany under the Salian emperors 

• Expansion, demographic and economic growth, and their problems [Fuhrmann 23-30; Jeep 582, 410-414] ; see a grant of market and coinage for the bishop of Osnabrück (952) and anotheof privileges to the Jewish community of Speyer (1084)
• Salian society  [Fuhrmann 31-38; Jeep 142-144, 224-226, 342-343, 660-672, 687-689, 727-728]
• Salian religious life [Robinson 64-98]; see an image of the Benedictine abbey of Maria Laach (Palatinate), and visit the Speyer Cathedral, the crypt of the Salian emperors

Week 9 (October 17-21):      The Investiture Controversy  

• The “priestly king” Henry III [Fuhrmann 38-46; Jeep 83-84, 309-311]; see the Golden Evangeliary made in the Echternach Abbey and visit the imperial palace in Goslar
• The Church reform [Fuhrmann 46-50; Jeep 344-345, 701-702]
• Henry IV  [Fuhrmann 51-58; Robinson  99-131 and 245-254]; read the Song of Anno and Lampert of Hersfeld’s account of the “coup of Kaiserswerth”; see a plan and a picture of the Harzburg Castle, built by Henry IV, as well as an image of Otto of Northeim’s castle at Hanstein; see the Dictatus Papae (1075); see the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome and visit the Hirsau Abbey

Week 10 (October 24-28):    The Investiture Controversy and its long-term consequences (research paper topic and list of sources due on Monday, 10/24)

• The rise of communes [Fuhrmann 77-81; Jeep 81-82, 116-118, 320, 474-475]; see a genealogy of the late eleventh- to thirteenth-century Welf family; see Christian and Jewish accounts of the 1096 pogrom in Mainz; see an illumination in the Chronicle of Ekkehard of Aura showing Henry IV handing over the royal insignia to Henry V; visit the sites of the reformed abbeys of Kastl and Baumburg (Bavaria);  and see Frederick I’s charter of privileges for Lübeck (1188)
• Climax and consequences of the Investiture Controversy (Canossa and its aftermath); [Fuhrmann 58-77 and 81-95; Robinson 132-244 and 254-337; Jeep 140-141, 399-401] ; see the Concordat of Worms
• The Investiture Controversy until Frederick Barbarossa [Fuhrmann 98-109 and 116-134]; visit the Trifels Castle,  the ruins of the Hohenstaufen stronghold at Oppenheim, and the Stahleck Castle founded in 1135 above Bacharach by Count Hermann; see an illumination in the manuscript of Ekkehard of Aura’s Chronicle showing the wedding of Henry V and Matilda (1114)

Week 11 (October 31-November 4):  Twelfth-century Germany

• Economic growth [Jeep 153, 321-322]; read a grant of craft guild to the fishermen of Worms (1106/7) and Henry IV’s imposition of tolls on craftsmen at Koblenz (1104); see a map of the eleventh- to thirteenth-century Ostsiedlung; visit the Cistercian abbeys of Kamp, Ebrach and Walkenried; read a biography of Count Wiprecht of Groitzsch
• Church  [Fuhrmann 109-116; Jeep 83, 358-359, 419, 435-436, 441-443]; read the biographies of Hildegard of Bingen (with a portrait) and Herrad of Landsberg; read a summary of Hildegard’s Scivias; visit the abbeys of Siegburg, St. Blasien, Hirsau, and Springiersbach, as well as the convents of Disibodenberg and Eibingen; see a portrait of St. Norbert of Gennep
• Landfrieden

Week 12 (November 7-11):   Germany under the Staufen emperors

• Frederick Barbarossa [Fuhrmann 135-157; Jeep xxxvi, 155-157, 237-240, 732-734]; see an image of the emperor from a Vatican manuscript and the decisions of the Diet of Roncaglia and the stipulations of the Peace of Constance; see a map of the Empire under Barbarossa’s rule, a map of twelfth-century Italy, and the map of the emperor’s Italian expeditions
• From Henry VI to Frederick II – empire and papacy in the struggle for supremacy [Fuhrmann 157-186; Jeep 241-245, 348-350]; see the gold seal of Henry VI following his proclamation in Palermo (1194); read three love songs written by the emperor in Old German with an English translation of one of them; see an image of Frederick II and an image of the battle of Bornhöved (1227) and read about the emperor’s encounter with the Ayyubid sultan al-Kamil in 1228; read the Statute in Favor of the Princes forced upon Henry VII at the 1231 assembly in Worms; see a brief description of Frederick II’s castle in Lucera, where the emperor established a colony of Saracens; visit Castel del Monte, the “hunting lodge” Frederick II built in Apulia in 1249, and see the ruins of the Castel Fiorentino where Frederick II died in 1250; see the seal of Henry Raspe, an image of Alfonso X of Castile, and another of Charles of Anjou receiving the crown of Sicily from Pope Clement IV (1266); see a late medieval, idealized image of the electors
• Friday, 11/11: Veterans’ Day, no classes

Week 13 (November 14-18):  Land and lordship

• Demographic growth and agriculture [Jeep 163-164]; see Henry VII’s attempts to enforce serfdom (1224); read a brief description of the eastward colonization (to the Polish lands); visit the Cistercian monasteries of Altzelle (near Dresden), Doberan in Mecklenburg, Oliwa near Gdańsk (Poland), Lubiąż in Silesia (Poland), and Lehnin (near Potsdam)
• Fiefs and church property. Ministerials and communes [Jeep 195, 196-197, 346, 434-435, 523-524, 804-805]; see a presentation of the Welf family and a short biography of Henry the Lion; see a portrait of Otto the Child, the first duke of Brunswick; see the tombstone of Siegfried III of Eppstein, Archbishop of Mainz; read Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa’s regulation of priestly rights of inheritance (1169), the imperial precaria of 1241, and a presentation of the “Mirror of the Saxons” (Sachsenspiegel); see the Heerschildordnung in the “Mirror of the Saxons”; see an image of the Scharfenberg Castle near Annweiler;  visit the imperial cities of Haguenau (Alsace), Wimpfen, and Gelnhausen; visit the episcopal towns of Schaffhausen (Switzerland), Colmar (Alsace), Feuchtwangen, and Wetzlar
• Commercial expansion; see the Hamburg and Lübeck treaty (1241) and their coinage agreement (1255); see also the regulations of the master butchers of Tulln (1237), the rules of the toll-collectors in Freiburg (1178), a collection of Heller, and a map of the trade routes across Europe, ca. 1200

Week 14 (November 21-25):   The thirteenth-century expansion

• Church and heresy [Jeep 8-9, 45-46, 52, 144, 161, 199-200, 514-515]; see a presentation of the Beguine movement; see also a biography of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia and a biography of Albertus Magnus
• Wednesday, 11/23 and Friday 11/25: Thanksgiving, no classes

Week 15 (November 28-December 2):  A new society

• New beginnings in the social system [Jeep 19-20, 28-34, 274-292, 303-306, 323-326, 332-334, 510-511, 525-532, 795-797, 822-826]
• Thirteenth-century German literature; read the Prologue to Gottfried of Strasbourg’s Tristan; see also a presentation of Minnesang; read the Falkenlied; see a digital version of the Codex Manesse in Heidelberg and a Minnesang competition in Braunschweig (2009); listen to Walter von der Vogelweide’s  Palästinalied
• Reading medieval poetry – another seminar.

Week 16 (December 5-9): Late medieval German culture (research paper due on Wednesday, 12/07)