{"id":639,"date":"2021-04-08T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/?page_id=639"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:46","slug":"euh-3432-weekly-topics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/euh-3432-weekly-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"EUH 3432 &#8211; Weekly Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EUH 3432 &#8211; Weekly Topics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 1 (January 8-13): Introduction.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A bit of Italian geography [Kleinhenz\u00a0409-412]; see\u00a0 a relief map of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelplan.it\/img\/lombardia.jpg\">Italian Peninsula<\/a>; see also images\u00a0of a typical\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristiane.org\/bilder\/toscana\/chianti.jpg\">Tuscan\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.departuresandarrivals.travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/apulia-1.jpg\">Apulian<\/a>\u00a0landscapes<\/li>\n<li>Sources of the early medieval history of Italy [Wickham\u00a01-8;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a0215-218]<\/li>\n<li>The many Italies of the Middle Ages [Abulafia\u00a01-23]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0Week 2 (January 16-20): Roman legacy [Wickham 9-27]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Romans and barbarians in Italy; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/07\/Tetrarchy_map3.jpg\">a map<\/a>\u00a0of the Late Roman Empire and an example of Roman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engramma.it\/eOS\/index.php?id_articolo=5223\">centuriation<\/a>\u00a0surviving in the Italian landscape<\/li>\n<li>Late Roman society and post-Roman rulers (from Odovacar to Theoderic the Great)\u00a0[Kleinhenz\u00a0396-397, 794, 806-807, 948-954]; see a reconstruction of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordostkultur-muenchen.de\/architektur\/images\/villa_rustica_zeichnung.gif\">villa rustica<\/a>,\u00a0portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.romancoins.info\/PetroniusMVs.jpg\">Petronius Maximus<\/a>\u00a0(emperor in 455) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/41\/Tremissis_Olybrius_%28obverse%29.jpg\">Anicius Olybrius<\/a>\u00a0(emperor in 472); see also a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itusozluk.com\/image\/theodoric-the-great_209585.jpg\">Theoderic the Great<\/a> on one of the medallions struck in his name and another of <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a0\/Gesta_Theodorici_-_Flavius_Magnus_Aurelius_Cassiodorus_%28c_485_-_c_580%29.jpg\">Cassiodorus<\/a>\u00a0in a later illuminated manuscript; see also a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage-history.com\/maps\/dow\/dow005b.jpg\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the Ostrogothic and neighboring kingdoms at the death of Theoderic<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 3 (January 22-27): The kingdom of Italy [Wickham\u00a028-63]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Lombards before Lombardy [Kleinhenz\u00a05, 13-14, 649-650]; see examples of sixth-century\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fas-history.rutgers.edu\/skelly\/fibule.jpg\">bow<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sulinet.hu\/oroksegtar\/data\/muzeumok\/Janus_pannonius_muzeum\/pages\/images\/003_regeszet_clip_image002_0024.jpg\">disc<\/a>-fibulae, typically associated with rich female graves in Hungary<\/li>\n<li>(*, due on Wednesday, January 24, in the evening) Conquest and kingdom [<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/content-removed\/\">Paul the Deacon,\u00a0History of the Lombards\u00a0Books I and II<\/a>; Kleinhenz 102-103, 647-648, 735-736, 862-867, 1056-1057]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roangelo.net\/valente\/longobar.html\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the Lombard kingdom before its conquest by Charlemagne; see an image of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn2.all-art.org\/images_hist98\/96.jpg\">King Agilulf<\/a>\u00a0(on the helmet fragment preserved at Bargello, in Florence) and the image of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/aa\/Lombard_horseman_-_shield_mount_from_Stabio%2C_Switzerland.jpg\">Lombard horseman<\/a>\u00a0on a shield ornament found in a warrior grave in Stabio;\u00a0see the altar of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wga.hu\/html_m\/zearly\/2\/1sculptu\/various\/altar3.html\">King Ratchis<\/a>; see a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/35\/Byzantinischer_Mosaizist_um_705_002.jpg\">mosaic<\/a>\u00a0from the oratory of Pope John VII in Vatican; see also the portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianhistoryproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/St_Benedict.gif\">St. Benedict of Nursia<\/a> from the catacomb of Hermes in Rome<\/li>\n<li>Carolingian Italy [Kleinhenz\u00a037, 210-211, 294-295, 376-380, 655]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24364447@N05\/15517723767\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the Carolingian Empire, a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/fb\/Charlemagne_denier_Mayence_812_814.jpg\">Charlemagne<\/a>\u00a0and another of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1a\/Ludwik_I_Pobo%C5%BCny.jpg\">Louis the Pious<\/a>; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsearch.info\/images\/43_m\/420278.jpg\">coin<\/a>\u00a0struck for Louis II and his wife, Angilberga<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 4 (January 29-February 2): Economy and society [Wickham 80-114]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cities; see a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ea\/1835_S.D.U.K._City_Map_or_Plan_of_Florence_or_Firenze%2C_Italy_-_Geographicus_-_Florence-SDUK-1835.jpg\">plan of Florence<\/a>, showing the location of the Cathedral (formerly Santa Reparata Church) and an aerial view of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/3\/31\/Piazza_della_Repubblica%2C_Florence%2C_2009.jpg\">Piazza della Republicca<\/a>, the ancient Roman forum; see an aerial view of <a href=\"https:\/\/pl.flightsim.to\/file\/276\/lucca-tuscany-italy\">Lucca<\/a>\u00a0showing the survival of the Roman street grid, but also the peripheral position of the cathedral; see also a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pearloftuscany.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/copia-di-lucca-piazza-anfiteatroeng.jpg\">aerial picture of the Piazza dell&#8217;Anfiteatro<\/a>\u00a0in Lucca and another of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2008remodel.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/milano_sant-ambrogio.jpg\">Church of St. Ambrose in Milan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Countryside [Jansen\u00a0225-227;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a06-7, 190-191, 868-871]; see the ruins of the church erected in the sixth century on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archeocartafvg.it\/portfolio-articoli\/villa-santina-ud-fraz-invillino-col-di-zuca\/\">Col di Zuca<\/a>\u00a0(Invillino) and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ed\/Pieve_di_Santa_Maria_Maddalena_Invillino_1.jpg\">church of St. Mary Magdalene in Col Santino<\/a>; visit the medieval village of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lascuoladiziogustavo.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/immagine-1.png\">Poggibonsi<\/a>\u00a0near Sienna; see a plan of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilvaresotto.it\/immagini\/Castelsepriopiantina.jpg\">Castelseprio<\/a>\u00a0site and visit the Church of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6d\/Santa_Maria_foris_portas2.JPG\">Santa Maria Foris Portas<\/a>\u00a0with the famous eighth-century (?)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arengario.net\/momenti\/imm\/momenti49a.jpg\">frescoes<\/a>; see an image of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6e\/Bobbio-abbazia_di_san_colombano-esterno6.jpg\">Bobbio Abbey<\/a>\u00a0and of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8e\/San_salvatore_%28brescia%29_interno2.JPG\">San Salvatore in Brescia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The early medieval society\u00a0 [Wickham\u00a0115-145]; see an image of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.italytrainingcamps.com\/sport-retreats.php?id=193\">Varsi near Parma<\/a>, with a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/52\/Piazza_Monumento_%28Varsi%29_-_torre_ovest_del_castello_e_chiesa_di_San_Pietro_Apostolo_2_2022-05-16.jpg\">Church of St. Peter<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 5 (February 5-9): The South [Wickham 146-167]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Byzantine Italy [Jansen\u00a0506-507;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a0165-167]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8f\/Duchy_of_Benevento_It.svg\/800px-Duchy_of_Benevento_It.svg.png\">map of the duchy of Benevento<\/a>\u00a0during the eighth century, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.8thcentury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/650ad_Byzantium.png\">map of Byzantium<\/a>\u00a0ca. 800, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westernciv.com\/syllabus\/history-of-medieval-italy\/winter\/italy-in-the-year-1000\/\">map of Italy<\/a>\u00a0ca. 1000, and\u00a0; see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/famouswonders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/san_vitale_ravenna.jpg\">Church of San Vitale in Ravenna<\/a>; see images of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livantea.it\/en\/salento-en\/the-old-town-of-otranto\/\">Otranto<\/a>\u00a0and another of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerialphotosearch.com\/info\/aerial-photos\/church-building-cathedral-bari-old-town-center-downtown-bari-italy-237882.html\">Bari<\/a>; see views of <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/61\/Puglia_MonteSAngelo1_tango7174.jpg\">Monte Gargano<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/dc\/Tricarico_Cattedrale_di_Santa_Maria_Assunta.jpg\">Tricarico<\/a>\u00a0(Lucania); see a gold coin (solidus) of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumancientcoins.com\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/17252\/constans_ii_SOLIDUS.jpg\">Emperor Constans II<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(*, due on Wednesday, February 7, in the evening) The Beneventan principality [Jansen 165-166, 501-505; Kleinhenz 23-26, 106-107, 755-757]; see a <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/07\/Sicard_solidus_722261.jpg\">gold coin (solidus) of\u00a0Sicard<\/a>, Prince of Benevento, and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/aa\/SIco_denaro_80000861.jpg\">silver coin (denarius)<\/a>\u00a0of Sico; see a picture of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.humnet.unipi.it\/galileo\/fondazione\/images\/Vincitori\/TOUBERT.JPG\">Pierre Toubert<\/a>, a model of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.morronedelsannio.com\/molise\/immagini\/sviluppo.gif\">incastellamento<\/a>\u00a0and the ruins of the\u00a0castello\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pontecorvo#\/media\/File:Pontecorvo_View.jpg\">Pontecorvo<\/a>, built by Rodoald, gastald of Aquino; visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colloca1.interfree.it\/Restaurofacciata.jpg\">Church of Santa Sofia<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Benevento (with a views of the <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f3\/Benevento-Facciata_Santa_Sofia.jpg\">plaza<\/a>) built by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colloca1.interfree.it\/arechi.jpg\">Arichis II<\/a>; see a presentation of the Benedictine abbey at <a href=\"https:\/\/the-past.com\/feature\/881-sacking-san-vincenzo-al-volturno\/\">San Vincenzo al Volturno<\/a>; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/employees.oneonta.edu\/farberas\/arth\/Images\/arth212images\/Romanesque\/montecassino.jpg\">reconstruction<\/a>\u00a0of the eleventh-century appearance of the Abbey of Montecassino; see\u00a0images of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/travelingitaly.it\/campania-italy\/benevento-italy-history-culture-and-gastronomy\">Benevento<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/robertarood.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/naples-italy.jpg\">Naples<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5d\/Salerno-PanoramaMazzoDellaSignora.jpg\">Salerno<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.girosole.com\/italy-travel-info\/special-places\/amalfi-history\/\">Amalfi<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.francovalente.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/isernia-2001.jpg\">Isernia<\/a>; read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/content-removed\/\">History of the Lombards<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/repository.rice.edu\/items\/f79ecf65-2285-4f0c-b777-f40403f6b79b\">Erchempert of Benevento<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Arabs in Italy [Jansen\u00a0490-500;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a046-48]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/course\/79-104\/Readings\/Gallery\/Gallery1\/HWC306.jpg\">map of the Abbasid Caliphate<\/a>; see aerial views of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tunisienumerique.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kairouan.0011.jpg\">Kairouan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siracusaweb.com\/images\/siracusa\/ortigiadallalto.jpg\">Syracuse<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.celebritycruises.com\/blog\/taormina-italy\">Taormina<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/4.614\/www\/images\/1026.html\">ribat\u00a0of Sousse<\/a>, from which was launched the expedition to Sicily led by Asad ibn al Furat (827); see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/5\/52\/Arab_campaigns_in_Sicily.PNG\">map of the conquest of Sicily<\/a>; visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/islamicart.museumwnf.org\/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;it;Mon01;8;en\">Favara<\/a>\u00a0(al-Fawwara) Castle and see a golden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/49\/Caliph_Al_Hakim_Sicily_1005.jpg\">tari<\/a> (quarter-dinar) struck in Sicily under the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 6 (February 12-16): The failure of the state [Wickham 168-193]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>From Louis II to Conrad II (875-1024): the end of the Italian independence; see a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/05\/KarlII_monks.jpg\">Charles the Bald<\/a>\u00a0and another of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greydragon.org\/library\/tentpics\/figure8.jpg\">Charles the Fat<\/a>; see a coin of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f4\/Spoleto%2C_denaro_di_stampo_largo_del_duca_guido%2C_889-894.JPG\">Guido of Spoleto<\/a>; see also a picture of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-C77mvNQOrZs\/Uf_gbcSeKQI\/AAAAAAAAaTM\/5BXrloPq5js\/s1600\/hbagy_resize2_858x558.jpg\">Hungarian warrior on horseback<\/a>\u00a0(as Magyars may have looked like).<\/li>\n<li>(*, due on Wednesday, February 14, in the evening) The new aristocracy [Jansen 423-427; Kleinhenz 267-269, 376, 772-775, 895-896]; see a picture of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisam.org\/vito-fumagalli-biografia\/\">Vito Fumagalli<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The rise of urban autonomy; see an image of popes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marshmk.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/gregory-the-great.jpg\">Gregory the Great<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/college.holycross.edu\/projects\/kempe\/pilgrimage\/Medieval_Rome_Plan.jpg\">map<\/a>\u00a0of Rome in the Middle Ages (with a plan of the initial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frammentidarte.blog\/2017\/10\/08\/passeggiata-storica-nel-vaticano\/\">Borgo Leonino<\/a>), and visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/21\/RomaSSabinaEsterno.JPG\">S. Sabina Church<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medievalists.net\/2015\/01\/schola-saxonum-borgo-rome\/\">Schola Saxonum<\/a>, the church of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/18\/Santa_Maria_in_Cosmedin%2C_August_2015.jpg\">Santa Maria in Cosmedin<\/a>\u00a0(with a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-architect.co.uk\/rome\/jpgs\/rome_building_aw080217_712.jpg\">interior<\/a>), and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christorchaos.com\/images\/Picture364.jpg\">Scala Sancta<\/a>\u00a0in the former Lateran palace; visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/romeinfo.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/roman_pantheon.jpg\">Pantheon<\/a>\u00a0and the (new)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lateran#mediaviewer\/File:St_John_Lateran_Basilica_and_Palace.jpg\">papal palace<\/a>\u00a0at the Lateran; see also the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/37\/Casa_dei_Crescenzia_Rome.jpg\">Casa dei Crescenzi<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freethought-forum.com\/livius\/torre.jpg\">Torre delle Milizie<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 7 (February 19-23): Cities and communes [Abulafia 168-193]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>(*, due on Monday, February 19, in the evening) Communal movement [Jansen 51-54; Kleinhenz 341-359, 629]; see a picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tabacco.jpg\">Giovanni Tabacco<\/a>; see also a view of the cathedral in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3376\/3339129938_1cd7f371c3.jpg\">Monza<\/a>\u00a0and an image of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a0\/Iron_Crown.JPG\">iron crown<\/a>\u00a0of Lombardy, with which German emperors were crowned in the cathedral; see\u00a0views of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a1\/Verona_Zeno.jpg\">basilica of San Zeno<\/a>\u00a0in Verona \u00a0(with an image of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bf\/Basilica_di_san_zeno_protiro%2C_lunetta_di_nicholaus%2C_san_zeno_riceve_l%27omaggio_della_citt%C3%A0_02.JPG\">tympanum<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Urban government [Jansen\u00a042, 55-60]; see a picture of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6c\/Palazzo_del_Podesta.01.jpg\">palazzo del podest\u00e0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6c\/Palazzo_del_Podesta.01.jpg\">\u00a0in Bologna<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Urban elites and factionalism [Jansen\u00a0230-233];\u00a0visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/3d\/Soncino2.jpg\">Soncino<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelamalfi.com\/wp-content\/themes\/Traveler2\/images\/san-ginignano.jpg\">San Gimignano<\/a>;\u00a0see a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor#mediaviewer\/File:Friedrich_I._Barbarossa.jpg\">Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9d\/12citaly.jpg\">map of twelfth-century Italy<\/a>, another of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/darkwing.uoregon.edu\/~klio\/maps\/med\/emp&amp;italy.jpg\">Frederick&#8217;s Italian expeditions<\/a>, and read the stipulations of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sourcebooks.fordham.edu\/source\/barbarossa-lombards.asp\">Peace of Constance<\/a>\u00a0(1183);\u00a0see a reconstruction of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerodelta.net\/immagini\/carroc.jpg\">carroccio\u00a0of Milan<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q3862638#\/media\/File:Monumento_%22Alberto_da_Giussano%22.JPG\">commemorative monument in Legnano<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1c\/BattagliaLegnano.jpg\">nineteenth-century rendition of the battle<\/a>\u00a0at the moment Emperor Frederick was wounded in the melee<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 8 (February 26-March 1): The Norman Kingdom of Sicily [Abulafia 58-81]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>(*, due on Monday, February 26, in the evening) From Roger II to Frederick II [Kleinhenz 248-249, 253-254, 382-385, 493-494, 775-780, 1068-1070]; visit <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/13\/Melfi_Paesaggio.jpg\">Melfi<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meilach.com\/myfotos\/noto\/noto15.jpg\">Noto<\/a>; see a portrait of King\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/04\/Martorana_RogerII2008.jpg\">Roger II<\/a>\u00a0in La Martorana and visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/02\/Cappella_Palatina_in_Palermo_Sicily.JPG\">royal chapel<\/a>\u00a0in Palermo; see a portrait of King\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/ce\/WilliamIIOfSicily.JPG\">William II<\/a>\u00a0from the Cathedral in Monreale and portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0b\/Tancred_von_Lecce.jpg\">Tancred of Lecce<\/a>\u00a0in a twelfth-century manuscript;\u00a0see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9e\/Heinrich_6_sigillum.jpg\">gold seal<\/a>\u00a0of Henry VI following his proclamation in Palermo (1194) and a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwleibniz.com\/britannica_pages\/emp_friedrich_ii\/images\/emp_friedrich_ii.jpg\">Frederick II<\/a>; visit Emperor Frederick&#8217;s castle at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3EGs20dRQrQ\/UF8TwTCUigI\/AAAAAAAAAg4\/WMAuNm8wb0Q\/s1600\/Lucera+e+Troia+1+maggio+2012+027-1_01.JPG\">Lucera<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0read about the emperor&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gebus.com\/federicoII_eng.htm\">encounter<\/a>\u00a0with the Ayyubid sultan al-Kamil in 1228; visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/static.charmingsardinia.com\/charmingpuglia\/images\/albero\/castel-del-monte-1-big.jpg?__hstc=1465710.514756f51aad28a6d480b0896ec071ba.1412640000044.1412640000045.1412640000046.1&amp;__hssc=1465710.1.1412640000047&amp;__hsfp=1314462730\">Castel del Monte<\/a>, the &#8220;hunting lodge&#8221; Frederick II built in Apulia in 1249; read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.papalencyclicals.net\/Councils\/ecum13.htm\">sentence of deposition<\/a>\u00a0that Gregory IX pronounced at the Council of Lyons against Frederick II (1245) and see the ruins of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mondimedievali.net\/Glossario\/fiorentin05.jpg\">Castel Fiorentino<\/a>\u00a0where Frederick II died in 1250<\/li>\n<li>Norman administration [Jansen\u00a065-70, 122-123, 175-186, 234-240;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a0212-213, 318-319, 412-413, 840-842];\u00a0visit the villa of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corrieredisalerno.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Ravello_Villa_Rufolo.jpg\">Rufolo<\/a>\u00a0family in Ravello and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/77\/Piazza_Obelisco_Tagliacozzo.jpg\">Tagliacozzo<\/a>, the site of the victory of Charles of Anjou over Conradin, Frederick II&#8217;s grandson;\u00a0another of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.francebalade.com\/anjou\/charles1anjou.jpg\">Charles of Anjou<\/a>\u00a0receiving the crown of Sicily from Pope Clement IV (1266)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 9 (March 4-8): Papal Italy [Abulafia 82-103]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Popes and emperors during the Investiture Controversy [Kleinhenz\u00a0458-460, 530-532]; visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/news-photo\/general-view-of-the-sala-ducale-in-the-apostolic-palace-as-news-photo\/463438850\">Sala Ducale<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/robertoalborghetti.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/c2a9-roberto-alborghetti-sala-regia-and-sala-ducale-12.jpg\">Sala Regia<\/a>\u00a0in the Vatican papal palace, as well as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2b\/Aracoeli-fachada.jpg\">Church of S. Maria in Capitolio<\/a>\u00a0(in Aracoeli, with a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/151\/416249651_bbd0cd8c3f.jpg\">interior<\/a>) and the statue of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/38\/8091_-_Roma_-_Girolamo_Masini_-_Monumento_a_Cola_di_Rienzo_%281887%29_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto%2C_7-Apr-2008.jpg\">Cola di Rienzo<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Papal administration [Kleinhenz\u00a0846-855]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.utexas.edu\/maps\/historical\/shepherd\/italy_1050.jpg\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the Patrimony of St. Peter in Italy in the mid-eleventh century<\/li>\n<li>Midterm<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 10 (March 18-22): The &#8220;commercial revolution&#8221; and urban\u00a0<em>signorie<\/em>\u00a0[Abulafia\u00a0104-146]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Italian maritime expansion in the Mediterranean: Genoa and Venice [Jansen\u00a0117-121, 159-161, 514-516;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a0399-405, 1085-1087, 1121-1133]<\/li>\n<li>Trade and urban economy [Jansen\u00a07-9, 104-109;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a089-92, 235-238, 780-784, 1109-1111]<\/li>\n<li>(*, due on Wednesday, March 20, in the evening) Urban\u00a0<em>signorie<\/em>: Piacenza, Verona, Milan, and Ferrara [Jansen\u00a043-46,124-126, 337-350;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a0335-336, 708-720, 892-893, 1134-1137]; see a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ferraraterraeacqua.it\/en\/ferrara\/discover-the-area\/art-and-culture\/castles-towers-bell-towers\/estense-castle\">Este castle in Ferrara<\/a>, another of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeanwaterways.com\/blog\/mantuas-palazzo-ducale\/\">Mantua<\/a>\u00a0with the palace of the Gonzaga family, and an aerial view of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/61\/Piazza_Garibaldi_a_Parma.jpg\">Parma<\/a>; see a picture of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.babelio.com\/auteur\/Pierre-Racine\/28697\">Pierre Racine<\/a>, the French scholar who studied the\u00a0<em>signoria<\/em>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberta.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/piacenza.jpg\">Piacenza<\/a>; see an equestrian statue of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5c\/Statua_equestre_Cangrande_della_Scala_%28Verona%29.jpg\">Cangrande della Scalla<\/a>, the lord of Verona (1311-1329), and views of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9b\/Piazza_dei_Signori_-_Torre_Bissara_-_Vicenza.jpg\">Vicenza<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.italia.it\/en\/veneto\/belluno\/feltre\">Feltre<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/cf\/Belluno-Schiara.jpg\">Belluno<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e3\/Exterior_of_Palazzo_della_Ragione_%28Padua%29_-_Torre_degli_Anziani.jpg\">Padua<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bc\/Il_Sile_a_Treviso.jpg\">Treviso<\/a>, all cities he included into the Veronese state; see\u00a0Archbishop\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summagallicana.it\/lessico\/o\/Ottone%20Visconti%20entra%20a%20Milano.jpg\">Ottone Visconti&#8217;s triumphal entry<\/a>\u00a0into Milan and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tansini.it\/it\/visconti-e-sforza-i-segreti-del-potere.html\">Napo della Torre<\/a>&#8216;s capture in 1277; see also views of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0c\/Sunrise_at_Bergamo_old_town%2C_Lombardy%2C_Italy.jpg\">Bergamo<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/06\/travel\/italy-cremona-violin.html\">Cremona<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/66\/Brescia_-_Duomo_Nuovo_visto_dal_castello.jpg\">Brescia<\/a>, three of the Lombard cities included into the state of Milan during Azzone&#8217;s rule; see also a view of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5b\/Modena_Piazza_Grande.jpg\">Modena<\/a>, incorporated into the state of Ferrara under the rule of Obizzo II d&#8217;Este<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 11 (March 25-29): Family and daily life in medieval Italy\u00a0[Abulafia\u00a0147-160 and 183-196]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Domestic life and food; see\u00a0examples of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/51\/BLW_Ivory_comb.jpg\">ivory combs<\/a>, of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a2\/Frammenti_di_Gela_Ware_e_frammenti_di_epoca_medievale.jpg\">Gela ware<\/a>, protomaiolica (<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/38\/Gela%2C_scodella_in_protomaiolica_di_tipo_gela%2C_1233-1275_ca.%2C_da_mus._reg._ceramica_di_caltagirone.JPG\">plate<\/a>),<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7e\/Bacino_ceramico_da_facciata_del_duomo_di_s._miniato%2C_nord-africa%2C_1190_ca._14.JPG\">\u00a0bacini<\/a>\u00a0(and on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/88\/Sant%27Andrea_Forisportam_bacini_ceramici_01.JPG\">facade<\/a>\u00a0of a building), and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com\/objects\/SC39356.jpg\">oliphants<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Housing and urban architecture [Jansen\u00a0228-229, 265-267]<\/li>\n<li>(*, due on Wednesday, March 27, in the evening) Kin structure in medieval Italy [Jansen 423-427, 441-445, 451-455; Kleinhenz 330-332]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 12 (April 1-5): Rural Italy during the Middle Ages\u00a0[Abulafia\u00a0161-182]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Castelli\u00a0and lords [Kleinhenz\u00a0599-601]; visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/87\/Battistero_Biella-1.jpg\">Biella<\/a>\u00a0(Piedmont); the Luccan borghi at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portale-colline-toscane.it\/valdarno.html\">Santa Croce di Valdarno<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.giornirubati.it\/pietrasanta-borgo-degli-artisti\/\">Pietrasanta<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comune.camaiore.lu.it\/it\/sezioni-turismo-e-cultura\/135-storia-di-camaiore\/205-i-borghi-di-camaiore\">Camaiore<\/a>\u00a0(the latter two in the region of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wanderingitaly.com\/maps\/versilia-guide.html\">Versilia<\/a>\u00a0coast)<\/li>\n<li>Rural life in southern Italy [Jansen\u00a03-6]; visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/10090760\/Origgio-VA#\/photo\/509030\">Origgio<\/a>\u00a0near Milan<\/li>\n<li>Rural economy [Jansen\u00a012-19]; visit the abbeys of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.introducingmilan.com\/chiaravalle-abbey\">Chiaravalle<\/a>\u00a0(near Milan) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rivistanatura.com\/abbazia-di-polirone-scoperta-per-caso\/\">San Benedetto Polirone<\/a>\u00a0(near Mantua)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 13 (April 8-12): Language and culture\u00a0[Abulafia\u00a0197-211]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A\u00a0brief history of the Italian language [Kleinhenz 603-605]<\/li>\n<li>Literacy, schools, and libraries [Jansen\u00a0459-465, 472-473]; visit the universities of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsgo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/bologna_italy_duomo_from_asinelli.jpg\">Bologna<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/82\/Universit%C3%A0_degli_Studi_di_Padova_jm56350.jpg\">Padua<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(*, due on Wednesday, April 10, in the evening) Vernacular literature [Jansen 526-527; Kleinhenz 11, 15-16, 37, 59, 60-61, 89, 160-161, 214-215, 278-286, 298-299, 374-375, 537-565, 1018-1019]; read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luzappy.eu\/testi_volgare\/ritmo_cassinese.htm\">Ritmo Cassinese<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silab.it\/cgi-bin\/poeweb.exe?t=2290079341&amp;n=5&amp;p=225&amp;c=V\">Ritmo bellunese<\/a>, browse Brunetto Latini&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.florin.ms\/Tesorett.html\">Li livre dou tresor<\/a>, and read two stanzas in an Italian dialect (of unknown origin) in Raimbaut de Vaqueiras&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trobar.org\/troubadours\/raimbaut_de_vaqueiras\/raimbaut_de_vaqueiras_16.php\">Eras quan vey verdeyar<\/a>; see an introduction to the work of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frenchofitaly.ace.fordham.edu\/?page_id=193\">Sordello da Goito<\/a>, one of the first Italian troubadours; read a sonnet by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.splendidsicily.com\/audio\/giacomo-da-lentini-and-the-sicilian-school-of-poetry\/\">Giacomo (Jacopo) da Lentini<\/a>, as well as a poem by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marinosanpieri.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/la-compiuta-donzella-1250-1300.html\">Compiuta Donzella<\/a>\u00a0(with English translation); read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silab.it\/cgi-bin\/poeweb.exe?t=1405049543&amp;n=66&amp;p=67&amp;c=V\">Chiaro Davanzati<\/a>&#8216;s poem on the stormy sea, Ezra Pound&#8217;s translation of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonnets.org\/pound.htm\">Guido Cavalcanti<\/a>&#8216;s sonnets,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rossettiarchive.org\/docs\/1-1861.yale.rad.html#p322\">Cino da Pistoia<\/a>&#8216;s sonnet to Dante Alighieri (in English translation), and Dante&#8217;s own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryintranslation.com\/PITBR\/Italian\/TheNewLife.htm\">Vita nuova<\/a>\u00a0in English translation; listen to\u00a0moderns renditions of St. Francis of Assisi&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IVNvowyHAXA\">Cantico delle creature<\/a>\u00a0(with accompanying\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellaumbria.net\/Assisi\/cantico-delle-creature.htm\">text<\/a>) and of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omifacsimiles.com\/brochures\/laudario.html\">Laudario di Cortona<\/a> (with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wHaH2ceOses\">sample<\/a>); read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rossettiarchive.org\/docs\/1-1861.yale.rad.html#p73\">Guittone d&#8217;Arezzo<\/a>&#8216;s sonnet to the Virgin Mary<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 14 (April 15-19): Art in medieval Italy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Architecture [Jansen\u00a0241-246;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a0737-751]; see an aerial view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2008remodel.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/milano_sant-ambrogio.jpg\">Church of Sant&#8217;Ambrogio in Milan<\/a>\u00a0(with a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/129\/411495061_f7dab945fb.jpg?v=0\">ribbed vaults<\/a>\u00a0in the interior); see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/27\/Duomo_di_Pisa,_facciata.JPG\">facade<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/diglit\/dehio1887atlas1\/0076\/image\">plan<\/a>\u00a0of the cathedral in Pisa (with a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c5\/Pisa_duomo_inside.jpg\">incrustation<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pixels.com\/featured\/interior-of-pisa-cathedral-italy-alexandre-rotenberg.html\">pointed arches<\/a>\u00a0in the interior); see the baptisteries of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetware.com\/i\/photo\/baptistery-pisa-pisacth2.jpg\">Pisa<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2f\/Battistero.jpg\">Parma<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/79\/Florence_Baptistry.jpg\">Florence<\/a>; see the facade of the church of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d0\/San_Miniato_al_Monte%2C_exterior%2C_Florencia%2C_Italia%2C_2019_01_cropped.jpg\">San Miniato al Monte<\/a>\u00a0in Florence;\u00a0see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornichon.org\/archives\/Orvieto%20duomo.JPG\">western facade<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisfabtrek.com\/journey\/europe\/italy\/20070520-camigliatello\/orvieto-duomo-4.jpg\">incrustation on the northern facade<\/a>\u00a0of the Cathedral in Orvieto; see the facade of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5d\/Photograph_of_of_the_Doges_Palace_in_Venice.jpg\">Doge&#8217;s Palace<\/a>\u00a0in Venice; see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/70\/Milan_Cathedral_from_Piazza_del_Duomo.jpg\">facade<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/b5\/Piazza_Duomo_%28Milano%29.jpg\">plan<\/a>\u00a0of the Cathedral in Milan; \u00a0see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetware.com\/i\/photo\/cathedral-belfry-florence-flcamp2.jpg\">Giotto&#8217;s bell tower (campanila)<\/a>\u00a0of the Cathedral in Florence; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetware.com\/i\/photo\/san-michele-in-orto-florence-i146.jpg\">guild niche<\/a>\u00a0on the facade of Or San Michele (Florence)<\/li>\n<li>(*, due on Wednesday, April 17, in the evening) Painting and sculpture [Kleinhenz\u00a019-21, 33-34, 38, 58-59, 223-225, 255-256, 308-311, 668-669, 824-834]; see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/99\/Wiligelmo_relief_01.JPG\">relief<\/a>\u00a0above the entrance into the Cathedral of Modena an the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/renzodionigi\/3009884869\">tympanum<\/a>\u00a0of the Cathedral in Parma; see Benedetto Antelami&#8217;s statue of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wahooart.com\/@@\/8XZ985-Benedetto-Antelami-David\">David<\/a>\u00a0on the facade of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.mflenses.com\/userpix\/3_fidenza01r0768_2.jpg\">Cathedral in Fidenza<\/a>; see the frescoes in the churches of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a9\/Chiesa_Sant%27Angelo_in_Formis.jpg\">Sant&#8217;Angelo in Formis<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodismo.it\/en\/places-to-go\/otranto\/otranto-byzantine-church-of-saint-peter\/\">St. Peter in Otranto<\/a>; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a3\/Bonaventura_Berlinghieri_Francesco.jpg\">Bonaventura Berlinghieri&#8217;s St. Francis Altarpiece<\/a>\u00a0for the church in Pescia,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.italianrenaissance.org\/nicola-pisanos-baptistery-pulpit-pisa\/\">Nicola Pisanos&#8217; pulpit for the baptistery of the Cathedral in Pisa<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/45\/Giovanni_pisano%2C_pulpito_di_sant%27andrea%2C_1298-1301%2C_05.jpg\">Giovanni Pisano&#8217;s pulpit of the Church of Sant&#8217;Andrea in Pistoia<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib-art.com\/imgpainting\/2\/8\/8282-the-last-judgement-pietro-cavallini.jpg\">Pietro Cavallini&#8217;s\u00a0Seated Apostles<\/a>\u00a0in the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere (Rome),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wga.hu\/art\/c\/cimabue\/madonna\/virgin.jpg\">Cimabue&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Enthroned Madona<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib-art.com\/imgpainting\/4\/2\/10924-ognissanti-madonna-madonna-in-maes-giotto-di-bondone.jpg\">Giotto&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Enthroned Madona<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/history.hanover.edu\/courses\/art\/giolam.jpg\">Lamentation<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awesomestories.com\/images\/user\/eeda54db1e.jpg\">Arena Chapel<\/a>\u00a0in Padua); see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wga.hu\/html_m\/g\/gaddi\/taddeo\/croce\/06baronc.html\">Taddeo Gaddi&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Meeting of Joachim and Anna<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/ca\/Orsanmichele,_Tabernacolo_orcagna_2.JPG\">Orcagna and Daddi&#8217;s tabernacle in Or San Michele<\/a>\u00a0(Florence),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f0\/Duccio_maesta1021.jpg\">Duccio di Buoninsegna&#8217;s <i>Maest\u00e0<\/i><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">,<a href=\"http:\/\/rolfgross.dreamhosters.com\/Tuscany-Web\/Florence\/1974SimoneMartiniAnnunciation.jpg\">Simone Martini&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Annunciation<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e3\/Nativity-of-the-virgin-pietro_lorenzetti_siena_museo_dell%27Opera_del_duomo.jpg\">Pietro Lorenzetti&#8217;s\u00a0Birth of the Virgin<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wga.hu\/art\/l\/lorenzet\/ambrogio\/governme\/2effect4.jpg\">Ambrogio Lorenzetti&#8217;s\u00a0Peaceful City<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wga.hu\/art\/l\/lorenzet\/ambrogio\/governme\/2effecz.jpg\">Peaceful Country<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Music [Kleinhenz\u00a028-29, 106,\u00a0453-454]; listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x4maoo4A3x4\">Enigma&#8217;s use of Gregorian chant<\/a>; listen to\u00a0examples of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GbiZulU70J0\">plainchant<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CBwh1OXw6uI\">Gregorian chant<\/a>; see a modern performance of\u00a0&#8220;proper chants&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HvaNJjdAAks\">introit<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QkgZB02X1cw\">\u00a0offertory<\/a>) and listen to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2zGyeRczFOA\">Agnus Dei<\/a>; see an example of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lphrc.org\/Chant\/\">neumes<\/a>\u00a0and listen to examples of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PU4ycRzwqDc\">Milanese (Ambrosian) chant<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MbVhH1_5D6c\">organum<\/a>; see a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicacolta.eu\/mc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/guido_aretino.jpg\">Guido d&#8217;Arezzo<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8d\/Guidonian_hand.jpg\">Guidonian hand<\/a>\u00a0(wrongly) attributed to him (with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RlleweQuq14\">performance<\/a>\u00a0showing its use for sight singing); see a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Jacopo+da+Bologna\/+images\/e8b4512b86cbbb51f884a49454010ef1\">Jacopo da Bologna<\/a>\u00a0and an example of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a-FYwWFgesU\">madrigal<\/a>; see a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/49\/Landini.jpg\">Francesco Landini<\/a>\u00a0and an example of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=72382CEwDoM\">ballata<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Week 15 (April 22-24): Greeks, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Italy. Sardinia and Corsica [Abulafia 215-250]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>(*, due on\u00a0Monday, April 22, in the evening) Greeks in southern Italy [Jansen\u00a0259-260;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a0322-323, 444-453, 463-465, 771-772]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yourguidetoitaly.com\/slowitaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Map-province-of-lecce-comuni-Grecia-Salentina-b.jpg\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the central region of Salento where Greek (Griko) is still spoken; see an icon of St.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_wUI6qYkH1wk\/Ss9V4FUBWMI\/AAAAAAAABLQ\/iXpeyHZuAjE\/s400\/St+Nilus+of+Rossano+2.jpg\">Nilus of Rossano<\/a>\u00a0and a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3105\/2787434321_25e72ff2d9_b.jpg\">Abbey of Grottaferatta<\/a>; see a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rome-roma.net\/photos\/piazza-places\/bocca-della-verita\/bocca-della-verita-Rome_2372.jpg\">Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin<\/a>\u00a0(Rome); see a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5d\/Palermo-Martorana-bjs.jpg\">Church of Santa Maria dell&#8217;Ammiraglio<\/a>\u00a0(Martorana) in Palermo (with a view of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/galenf.com\/Sicily\/polarmo120.jpg\">mosaics<\/a>\u00a0in the interior)<\/li>\n<li>Muslims and Jews in medieval Italy [Jansen 487-488, 508-513;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a045-46, 536-537, 580-583]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cngcoins.com\/Coin.aspx?CoinID=292701\">tari\u00a0(quarter-dinar) struck in Amalfi<\/a>\u00a0as an imitation of a Sicilian\u00a0tari; see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7e\/Arabischer_Maler_der_Palastkapelle_in_Palermo_002.jpg\">portrait of the Norman ruler<\/a>\u00a0on a wooden panel from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3296\/2938710553_2e349d35fc.jpg\">Palatine Chapel<\/a>\u00a0in Palermo; see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viennatouristguide.at\/Altstadt\/Schatzkammer\/Mantel\/kro02.jpg\">Norman coronation mantle<\/a>; see views of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/b1\/Palermo-Zisa-bjs2007-04.jpg\">Zisa<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a1\/La_Cuba_%28Palermo%29_side.jpg\">Cuba<\/a>\u00a0palaces in Palermo (with a detail of architectural decoration called\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c5\/Cuba_muqarna.jpeg\">muqarna<\/a><\/em>); visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sicilyenjoy.com\/en\/san-giuseppe-jato-what-to-see-in-a-town-full-of-charm\/\">Jato<\/a>, in western Sicily;\u00a0see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_lPmEo0pHgu8\/SHnTjez2BjI\/AAAAAAAAALU\/mw5uHSh9Bbs\/s1600-h\/Fig03a-Mi+%27al+harhorev.png\">page<\/a>\u00a0of the manuscript containing the <em>piyyut<\/em>\u00a0<em>Mi-al har horev<\/em> (<em>Eulogy of Moses<\/em>)\u00a0attributed to Obadiah the Proselyte<\/li>\n<li>Sardinia and Corsica [Jansen 47-50;\u00a0Kleinhenz\u00a0257, 1013-1016];\u00a0see\u00a0views of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corsicatravelguide.com\/places\/ajaccio.php\">Ajaccio<\/a>\u00a0and of the mountain area in the interior of Sardinia (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.luisellabolla.it\/images\/archivio\/diario\/2007\/1201_barbagia.png\">Barbagia<\/a>); see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c5\/Giudicati_sardi_1.svg\/388px-Giudicati_sardi_1.svg.png\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<em>giudicati<\/em>\u00a0of Sardinia;\u00a0see a manuscript illumination showing the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/07\/Friedrich-barbarossa-und-soehne-welfenchronik_1-1000x1540.jpg\/250px-Friedrich-barbarossa-und-soehne-welfenchronik_1-1000x1540.jpg\">coronation of Barisone of Arborea\u00a0<\/a>as king of Sardinia by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1164); 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