Tuesday,January 13: Introduction. Late Roman Gaul and the barbarians (Murray 3-14, 20-47, 48-54, 59-60, 100-108, 207-218)
Thursday, January 15 : The Franks before 537 (Murray 153, 157-159, 166-169, 259-263, 267-286)
Tuesday, January 20: Many kingdoms, one Church; civil wars and legislation (Murray 109-137, 169-171, 179-181, 289-3013, 315-428, 533-556)
Thursday, January 22: Merovingians and their neighbors in the 7th century (Murray 453-490, 492-498, 565-568)
Tuesday, January 27: Land, wealth, and the economy; royal women, cultured churchmen (Murray 313-315, 499-504, 569-587)
Thursday, January 29:From Pippin II to Pippin III; mission and Church during the first half of the 8th century (Costambeys 31-65; Murray 633-655)
Tuesday, February 3: The dawn of the Carolingian age; Charlemagne (Costambeys 1-30 and 65-79; Dutton 12-22. 26-51, 65-69)
Thursday, February 5: The Empire (Costambeys 154-194; Dutton 69-85)
Tuesday, Februrary 10: Church and culture (Costambeys 80-152; Dutton 95-120, 139-146)
Thursday, February 12: After Charlemagne (Costambeys 194-222, 379-427; Dutton 146-154, 159-176, 199-203, 256-265, 334-336)
Tuesday, February 17: Carolingian economy and society (Costambeys 223-323, 324-378; Dutton 85-89, 207-220)
Thursday, February 19: Midterm
Tuesday, February 24: The society in western Francia (Hallam 1-32); read Fulbert of Chartres, On feudal obligations
Thursday, February 26 and Tuesday, March 3: Principalities around AD 1000 (Hallam 33-79); read the Chronicle of the Counts of Anjou
Tuesday, March 3: Early Capetians (Hallam 80-138); read Richer of Reims, on the coronation of Hugh Capet; read a letter of Ivo of Chartres to Adele, countess of Blois; read Duke of William of Aquitaine’s foundation charter for the abbey of Cluny
Thursday, March 5: France in the making, from Louis VI to Louis VIII (Hallam 139-172, 192-232); read a fragment from Suger, Life of Louis VI; read fragments of Rigord’s Deeds of Philip Augustus
Tuesday, March 10: French society in the 11th and 12th centuries (Hallam 172-180, 188-192); read Guibert of Nogent on the revolt in Laon; read a charter of Philip II suppressing the commune of Etampes; read Suger’s On the Administration
Thursday, March 12: The Church in 11th– and 12th-century France (Hallam 232-246); read Guibert of Nogent on relics and Carthusians; read an account of the conversion of Peter Waldo and a description of Waldensian beliefs; read an excerpt from the Cathar Gospel, a description of Cathar society, and a description of Cathar rituals
Tuesday, March 24: Louis IX (Hallam 247-281, 302-353); listen to a reading from Jean de Joinville’s Life of St. Louis
Thursday, March 26: French society in the 13th century (Hallam 281-292)
Tuesday, March 31: The Church in 13th-century France (Hallam 302-353); read Pope Innocent III’s letters to the French clergy and to King Philip II; read an account of the 1210 riot in Chartres; read the Testament of St. Francis of Assisi
Thursday, April 2: The last Capetians, from Philip III to Charles IV (Hallam 354-372, 384-409); read an account of the events at Agnani
Tuesday, April 7: Economy and society in late 13th– and 14th-century France (Hallam 372-384); read the Inquisition records of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers
Thursday, April 9: The Church in 14th-century France (Hallam 409-432); read Pope Boniface VIII’s bulls of 1296 and 1302; read a troubadour poem criticizing the Avignon papacy
Thursday, April 14: Into the Hundred Years War (Hallam 433-440); read Jean Froissart’s account of the battles of Crecy and Poitiers
Tuesday, April 16: The Hundred Years War and the final phase of the making of France
Friday, May 1, 12:30-2:30 am: Final exam.