{"id":655,"date":"2021-04-08T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/?page_id=655"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:46","slug":"euh-3473-weekly-topics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/euh-3473-weekly-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"EUH 3473 &#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 3473 &#8211; Weekly Topics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 1 (August 24-26):<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A history of words: German,\u00a0<em>Teutonicus<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Deutsch<\/em>\u00a0[<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a019-23;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0265-267]; see the entry &#8220;German&#8221; in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=german\">Online Etymologyical Dictionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A little geography &#8211; where was medieval Germany [<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a06-16]; see a map of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/historymedren.about.com\/library\/atlas\/natmapce1180.htm\">Central Europe, ca. 1180<\/a>, the German lands on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c4\/Ebstorfer_Weltkarte_2.jpg\">Ebstorf map\u00a0<\/a>of the early 1200s, and a map of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.utexas.edu\/maps\/europe\/germany_rel_94.jpg\">present-day Germany<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Problems of historiography [<em>Reuter<\/em>\u00a01-17;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0362-364]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 2 (August 29-September 2):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sources<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thietmar of Merseburg, a key source of Ottonian Germany [<em>Warner<\/em>\u00a01-5, 16-26, 49-62;\u00a0Jeep\u00a0754-755]; see a facsimile of <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/29\/Thietmar178b.jpg\">a\u00a0page<\/a> in Thietmar&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Chronicon<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chronicles: Hermann of Reichenau [<em>Robinson<\/em>\u00a01-20]<\/li>\n<li>Chronicles: Berthold of Reichenau [<em>Robinson<\/em>\u00a020-41]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 3 (September 5-9):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carolingian Germany<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Monday, 09\/05: Labor Day, no classes<\/li>\n<li>Franks, the Frankish kingdom, and Carolingian Francia [<i>Reuter<\/i>\u00a021-44;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em> 1-2, 12, 96-98, 98-102, 469-470, 472-473]; see a map of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/image\/10302\/map-of-francia\/\">Carolingian Empire<\/a>; see a passage from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/salic-law.html\">Salian Law<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/basis\/einhard.html\">Einhard&#8217;s\u00a0Life of Charlemagne<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/Halsall\/source\/carol-saxony.asp\">Capitulary for Saxony<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/basis\/liutberga.html\">Life of Liutberga<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The East Frankish kingdom and its constituent parts [<i>Reuter<\/i>\u00a070-111;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0xxxv, 696-697]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.com\/~wggerman\/map\/verdun.htm\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the division of the Carolingian Empire (ca. 842) and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/xanten1.html\">Annals of Xanten<\/a>\u00a0on the situation in the years following the Treaty of Verdun; see also the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/plan_of_st_gall.jpg\">plan of a Benedictine abbey<\/a>\u00a0in the library of the St. Gall Abbey (ca. 820)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 4 (September 12-16):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;The iron century&#8221; (882-983)<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Late Carolingian Germany [<i>Reuter<\/i>\u00a0115-147;\u00a0<em>Warner<\/em>\u00a068-76 and 78-81;\u00a0Jeep\u00a087-95, 106, 107, 340-341, 357-358, 463-465, 471-472]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/medieval.ucdavis.edu\/20A\/0900big.jpg\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the Late Carolingian kingdoms; read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/eckehard1.html\">Ekkehard of St. Gall<\/a>\u00a0on his abbey and an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~dash\/hildebrand.html\">English translation<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fh-augsburg.de\/~harsch\/germanica\/Chronologie\/08Jh\/Hildebrand\/hil_lied.html\">Hildebrandslied<\/a>; see also an image of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/44\/146215913_4f9d184fb7.jpg\">Holy Lance<\/a>\u00a0and a late Carolingian representation of Pope\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umilta.net\/gregory1.jpg\">Gregory the Great writing along with his scribes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Otto I [Reuter\u00a0148-174;\u00a0<em>Warner\u00a0<\/em>89-123]<\/li>\n<li>Otto II [<i>Reuter<\/i>\u00a0174-180;\u00a0<em>Warner<\/em>\u00a0123-148;\u00a0<em>Jee<\/em>p\u00a0141-142, 371-372, 443-444, 586-587, 588-589, 590-591, 592, 752-753]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friesian.com\/germany.htm\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the stem duchies and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/maps\/962germa.jpg\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the Ottonian Empire in\u00a0ca. 962; see also a reconstruction of the Slavic temple at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/85\/Freilichtmuseum_Gro%C3%9F_Raden_-_Tempel_3.jpg\">Gross Raden<\/a>\u00a0and; see also the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/ac\/Otton_II_et_Th%C3%A9ophano.JPG\">ivory of Otto II and Theophanu<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 5 (September 19-23):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Germany under the Ottonians<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Kingship, patronage, and rebellion [<i>Reuter<\/i>\u00a0183-220]<\/li>\n<li>Ottonian society [<em>Reuter<\/em>\u00a0221-236]<\/li>\n<li>Ottonian religious life [<i>Reuter\u00a0<\/i>236-252;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a050, 81, 267-268, 374-375, 497-498, 595-605, 643-645]; see the interior of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rittersbach.de\/st_georg\/bilder\/bild5d.jpg\">St. George Church in Oberzell<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/users.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/hildesheim.jpg\">St. Michael Church in Hildesheim<\/a>\u00a0(built by St. Bernward of Hildesheim), an image of the Benedictine convent of St. Cyriacus in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stift-gernrode.uni-goettingen.de\/AltFrameset.htm\">Gernrode<\/a>\u00a0(near Quedlinburg), and an example of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~medart\/menuglossary\/westwork.htm\">westwork<\/a>; read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1025burchard-vita.html\">Life of Bishop Burchard of Worms<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 6 (September 26-30)<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">:<\/span><\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ottonian hegemony in Europe<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ottonian art; see an illumination from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/da\/Christ_irina%2C_Egbert_Psalter.jpg\">Egbert Psalter<\/a>, another from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/56\/Gero_Codex_Maiesta_Domini.jpg\">Gero Codex<\/a>; see a page from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rubens.anu.edu.au\/htdocs\/bytype\/manuscripts\/bamberg\/0000\/20.JPG\">Bamberg Apocalpyse<\/a>\u00a0and images of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/64\/Meister_des_Registrum_Gregorii_001.jpg\">Otto II by the Gregory Master<\/a>\u00a0and of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/14\/Liuthar-Evangeliar.jpg\">Otto III in the Aachen Gospels<\/a>; read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/basis\/roswitha-dulcitius.html\">Dulcitius,<\/a>\u00a0a medieval play by Hrosvit of Gandersheim (with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fh-augsburg.de\/~harsch\/Chronologia\/Lspost10\/Hrotsvitha\/hro_dr02.html\">Latin text<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The Slavs and the eastern frontier [<em>Reuter<\/em>\u00a0253-264;\u00a0<em>Warner<\/em>\u00a0149-204]<\/li>\n<li>The Empire [<em>Reuter<\/em>\u00a0265-286;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a039-41, 200-202, 641-643];\u00a0see an image of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/54\/Meister_der_Reichenauer_Schule_002.jpg\">Otto III on the throne\u00a0<\/a>(from the Gospel of Otto III)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 7 (October 3-7):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Henry II and Thietmar of Merseburg: the emperor and the chronicler\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The last Ottonian? [<em>Warner<\/em>\u00a0205-234]; see a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdbg.de\/heinrich-site\/german\/willkommen\/willk.html\">Henry II\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0near one of the entrances into the Cathedral of Bamberg and an image of his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdbg.de\/heinrich-site\/german\/objekt\/jan\/objekt.html\">coronation<\/a>\u00a0in a Regensburg sacramentary<\/li>\n<li>The first Salian? [<em>Warner<\/em>\u00a0235-385; <em>Robinson<\/em> 58-64]<\/li>\n<li>Reading from the chronicle: a seminar<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 8 (October 10-14):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Germany under the Salian emperors\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Expansion, demographic and economic growth, and their problems [<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a023-30;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0582, 410-414] ; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/952osnabruck.html\">grant of market and coinage for the bishop of Osnabr\u00fc<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/952osnabruck.html\">ck<\/a>\u00a0(952) and anotheof<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1084landjews.html\">\u00a0privileges to the Jewish community of Speyer<\/a>\u00a0(1084)<\/li>\n<li>Salian society\u00a0 [<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a031-38;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0142-144, 224-226, 342-343, 660-672, 687-689, 727-728]<\/li>\n<li>Salian religious life [<em>Robinson<\/em>\u00a064-98]; see an image of the Benedictine abbey of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.klaes-w.de\/webseiten\/eifel\/maria_laach_abteikirche_8289.htm\">Maria Laach<\/a>\u00a0(Palatinate), and visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dom-zu-speyer.de\/en\/\">Speyer Cathedral<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/content-removed\/\">crypt<\/a>\u00a0of the Salian emperors<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 9 (October 17-21):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>The Investiture Controversy<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><span style=\"color: #000000\">The &#8220;priestly king&#8221; Henry III [<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a038-46;\u00a0<em>J<\/em><\/span><em>eep<\/em>\u00a083-84, 309-311<span style=\"color: #cc0000\">];\u00a0<\/span>see\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rubens.anu.edu.au\/htdocs\/bytype\/manuscripts\/survey\/00028.html\">Golden Evangeliary<\/a>\u00a0made in the Echternach Abbey and visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/visitworldheritage.com\/en\/eu\/imperial-palace-goslar\/33c45d42-1d18-4fee-a18b-88e3a2831dea\">imperial palace<\/a>\u00a0in Goslar<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>The Church reform\u00a0[<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a046-50;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0344-345, 701-702]<\/li>\n<li>Henry IV \u00a0[<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a051-58;\u00a0<em>Robinson<\/em>\u00a0\u00a099-131 and 245-254]; read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dunphy.de\/Medieval\/Annolied\">Song of Anno<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/content-removed\/\">Lampert of Hersfeld&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0account of the &#8220;coup of Kaiserswerth&#8221;; see a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/46\/Harzburg_Zeichnung_1574.jpg\">plan\u00a0<\/a>and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/11\/Harzburg_turm.jpg\">picture<\/a>\u00a0of the Harzburg Castle, built by Henry IV, as well as an image of Otto of Northeim&#8217;s castle at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eichsfeld-net.de\/local\/sehenswuerdigkeiten\/hanstein.jpg\">Hanstein<\/a>; see\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/Halsall\/source\/g7-dictpap.asp\">Dictatus Papae<\/a>\u00a0(1075); see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.italyguides.it\/en\/lazio\/rome\/ancient-rome\/castel-st-angelo\">Castel Sant&#8217;Angelo\u00a0<\/a>in Rome and visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.klosterhirsau.de\/en\/\">Hirsau Abbey<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 10 (October 24-28):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>The Investiture Controversy and its long-term consequences\u00a0<\/b>(research paper topic and list of sources due on Monday, 10\/24)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The rise of communes [<i>Fuhrmann\u00a0<\/i>77-81;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a081-82, 116-118, 320, 474-475]; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edstephan.org\/Rulers\/welf.html\">genealogy<\/a>\u00a0of the late eleventh- to thirteenth-century Welf family; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1096jews.html\">Christian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1096jews-mainz.html\">Jewish<\/a>\u00a0accounts of the 1096 pogrom in Mainz; see an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.web.britannica.com\/eb-media\/79\/130679-004-804AB32F.jpg\">illumination<\/a>\u00a0in 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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kastl.net\/urlsommer01\/kastl_luftm.jpg\">Kastl<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kloster_Baumburg#\/media\/File:Klosterkirche_St._Margarethen,_Kloster_Baumburg.JPG\">Baumburg<\/a>\u00a0(Bavaria);\u00a0 and see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1188lubeckcharter.html\">Frederick I&#8217;s charter of privileges for L\u00fc<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1188lubeckcharter.html\">beck<\/a>\u00a0(1188)<\/li>\n<li>Climax and consequences of the Investiture Controversy (Canossa and its aftermath);\u00a0[<i>Fuhrmann<\/i>\u00a058-77 and 81-95;\u00a0<em>Robinson<\/em>\u00a0132-244 and 254-337;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0140-141, 399-401] ; see\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/Halsall\/source\/worms1.asp\">Concordat of Worms<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Investiture Controversy until Frederick Barbarossa [<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a098-109 and 116-134]; visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trifels_Castle#\/media\/File:Trifels_-_aus_der_Hubschrauberperspektive.JPG\">Trifels Castle<\/a>,\u00a0 the ruins of the Hohenstaufen stronghold at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/i1.trekearth.com\/photos\/30790\/castlejpg.jpg\">Oppenheim<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.castlesworld.com\/castles\/stahleck-castle.php\">Stahleck Castle<\/a>\u00a0founded in 1135 above Bacharach by Count Hermann; see an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e8\/Matilda_jidnrichInem.jpg\/220px-Matilda_jidnrichInem.jpg\">illumination<\/a>\u00a0in the manuscript of Ekkehard of Aura&#8217;s\u00a0Chronicle\u00a0showing the wedding of Henry V and Matilda (1114)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 11 (October 31-November 4):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Twelfth-century Germany<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Economic growth [<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0153, 321-322]; read a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1105fishermangild.html\">grant of craft guild<\/a>\u00a0to the fishermen of Worms (1106\/7) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/Halsall\/source\/1104Coblenz.asp\">Henry IV&#8217;s imposition of tolls on craftsmen at Koblenz<\/a>\u00a0(1104); see a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bd\/Deutsche_Ostsiedlung.png\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the eleventh- to thirteenth-century\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteastronomy.com\/topics\/Ostsiedlung\">Ostsiedlung<\/a>; visit the Cistercian abbeys of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.klaes-w.de\/fotos\/niederrhein\/kamp_lintfort_kloster_kamp_7912.jpg\">Kamp<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ebrach_Abbey#\/media\/File:Ebrach_Klosterkirche_1.JPG\">Ebrach<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/228\/486103902_a028f0e28b.jpg\">Walkenried<\/a>; read a biography of Count\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c8\/Wiprecht_groitzsch_tomb_cover.jpg\">Wiprecht of Groitzsch<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Church\u00a0 [<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a0109-116;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a083, 358-359, 419, 435-436, 441-443]; read the biographies of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.kenyon.edu\/Projects\/Margin\/hildegar.htm\">Hildegard of Bingen<\/a>\u00a0(with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/ba\/Hildegard_von_Bingen.jpg\">portrait<\/a>) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amedievalwomanscompanion.com\/herrad-of-landsberg\/\">Herrad of Landsberg<\/a>; read a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthyhildegard.com\/scivias-illustrations\/\">summary<\/a>\u00a0of Hildegard&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Scivias<\/em>; visit the abbeys of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/40\/215458281_dc28ad9518.jpg\">Siegburg<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dom-st-blasien.de\/go\/dsb\/_ws\/mediabase\/_ts_1501159909000\/generated\/store\/easyedit\/page:home\/kirchengemeinde\/sl_1331045809361\/pic1\/de_args.pic1_520y__a.jpg\">St. Blasien<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zum.de\/Faecher\/G\/BW\/Landeskunde\/rhein\/kloester\/hirsau\/9863.jpg\">Hirsau<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6a\/Springiersbach_monastery.JPG\">Springiersbach<\/a>, as well as the convents of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3228\/2445962418_db40364dba.jpg\">Disibodenberg<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/4d\/Kloster_Eibingen01.JPG\">Eibingen<\/a>; see a portrait of St.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0e\/Norbert_xanten.JPG\">Norbert of Gennep<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Landfrieden<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 12 (November 7-11):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>Germany under the Staufen emperors<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Frederick Barbarossa [<em>Fuhrmann<\/em>\u00a0135-157;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0xxxvi, 155-157, 237-240, 732-734]; see an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/53\/Barbarossa.jpg\">image of the emperor<\/a>\u00a0from a Vatican manuscript and the decisions of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/barbarossa-lombards.html\">Diet of Roncaglia and the stipulations of the Peace of Constance<\/a>; see a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hourmo.eu\/Karten%20-%20Maps\/1190-1190-AD_Germany_Friedrich_I.html\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the Empire under Barbarossa&#8217;s rule, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/maps\/12citaly.jpg\">map<\/a>\u00a0of twelfth-century Italy, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/darkwing.uoregon.edu\/~klio\/maps\/med\/emp&amp;italy.jpg\">map<\/a>\u00a0of the emperor&#8217;s Italian expeditions<\/li>\n<li>From Henry VI\u00a0to Frederick II &#8211; empire and papacy in the struggle for supremacy [<i>Fuhrmann<\/i>\u00a0157-186;\u00a0<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0241-245, 348-350]; see 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); read three\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fh-augsburg.de\/~harsch\/germanica\/Chronologie\/12Jh\/HeinrichVI\/hei_lied.html\">love songs<\/a>\u00a0written by the emperor in Old German with an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planck.com\/rhymedtranslations\/henry6ritest.htm\">English translation<\/a>\u00a0of one of them; see an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/db\/Frederick_II_and_eagle.jpg\">image<\/a>\u00a0of Frederick II and an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki-commons.genealogy.net\/images\/c\/c6\/Die_Schlacht_bei_Bornh%C3%B6ved_1227.jpg\">image<\/a>\u00a0of the battle of Bornh\u00f6ved (1227) and read 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; read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/Halsall\/source\/fred2-princes.asp\">Statute in Favor of the Princes<\/a>\u00a0forced upon Henry VII at the 1231 assembly in Worms; see a brief description of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ermakvagus.com\/Europe\/Italy\/Lucera%20Castle\/Lucera%20Castle.htm\">Frederick II&#8217;s castle in Lucera<\/a>, where the emperor established a colony of Saracens; visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WgeAazU8hjg\/UTH3BMff2RI\/AAAAAAAAEfE\/T-deSuSMIH8\/s1600\/Castel_del_Monte.jpg\">Castel del Monte<\/a>, the &#8220;hunting lodge&#8221; Frederick II built in Apulia in 1249, 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; see the seal of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/b1\/Heinrich_Raspe.jpg\">Henry Raspe<\/a>,\u00a0an image of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoasm.org\/IIA\/AlfonsoX.html\">Alfonso X of Castile<\/a>, and another 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); see a late medieval, idealized image of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/51\/Balduineum_Wahl_Heinrich_VII.jpg\">electors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Friday, 11\/11: Veterans&#8217; Day, no classes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 13 (November 14-18):\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b>Land and lordship<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Demographic growth and agriculture [<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0163-164]; see Henry VII&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1224germanserfs.html\">attempts to enforce serfdom<\/a>\u00a0(1224); read a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medievalists.net\/2015\/04\/ostsiedlung-or-transition-of-german-law-legal-perspective-on-settlement-according-to-german-law-in-medieval-poland\/\">brief description of the eastward colonization<\/a>\u00a0(to the Polish lands); visit the Cistercian monasteries of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kloster-altzella.de\/\">Altzelle<\/a>\u00a0(near Dresden),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/klosterland.de\/en\/kloster\/doberan\/\">Doberan<\/a>\u00a0in Mecklenburg,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2c\/Bazylika_archikatedralna_w_Gdansku-Oliwie.jpeg\">Oliwa<\/a>\u00a0near Gda\u0144sk (Poland), <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Exjkl27nmSo\/UC09CBHcB1I\/AAAAAAAABbQ\/Xj7sv8Hrsv8\/s1600\/zarys_historyczny_1.jpg\">Lubi\u0105\u017c<\/a>\u00a0in Silesia (Poland), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/4a\/PM08-13_img03_Kloster_Lehnin.jpg\">Lehnin<\/a>\u00a0(near Potsdam)<\/li>\n<li>Fiefs and church property. Ministerials and communes [<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a0195, 196-197, 346, 434-435, 523-524, 804-805]; see\u00a0a\u00a0presentation of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.welfen.de\/\">Welf family<\/a>\u00a0and a short\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/independentcrusadersproject.ace.fordham.edu\/exhibits\/show\/crusaders\/item\/174\">biography of Henry the Lion<\/a>; see a portrait of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/home.ica.net\/~claus\/Otto%20d%20Kind%201235-52.jpg\">Otto the Child<\/a>, the first duke of Brunswick; see the tombstone of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/borgesmap.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/09\/photo-of-a-photocopy-of-a-photo-of-a-tombslab-of-archbishob-siegfried-iii-of-epstien-2\/\">Siegfried III of Eppstein, Archbishop of Mainz<\/a>; read Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1165Prstwill.html\">regulation of priestly rights of inheritance<\/a>\u00a0(1169), the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1241Precaria.html\">\u00a0imperial\u00a0precaria\u00a0of 1241<\/a>, and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/historyofinformation.com\/detail.php?entryid=1819\">presentation of the &#8220;Mirror of the Saxons&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(Sachsenspiegel); see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/cf\/Heerschildordnung.jpg\"><em>Heerschildordnung<\/em><\/a> in the &#8220;Mirror of the Saxons&#8221;; see an image of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spottinghistory.com\/view\/6617\/scharfenberg-castle-ruins\/\">Scharfenberg\u00a0<\/a>Castle near Annweiler;\u00a0\u00a0visit the imperial cities of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ville-haguenau.fr\/\">Haguenau<\/a>\u00a0(Alsace),\u00a0Wimpfen, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/0e\/Gelnhausen%2C_Obermarkt_mit_Marienkirche.jpg\">Gelnhausen<\/a>; visit the episcopal towns of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisscastles.ch\/aviation\/schaffhausen\/photos\/schaffhausen10062006_7045.jpg\">Schaffhausen<\/a>\u00a0(Switzerland),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tourisme-colmar.com\/en\/visit\/presentation\/discover\">Colmar<\/a>\u00a0(Alsace),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.feuchtwangen.de\/de\/startseite\/\">Feuchtwangen<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetzlar.de\/\">Wetzlar<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Commercial expansion; see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/hanse1241.html\">Hamburg and L\u00fc<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/hanse1241.html\">beck treaty<\/a>\u00a0(1241) and their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1255hamburg-lubeck-coins.html\">coinage agreement<\/a>\u00a0(1255); see also the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1237butchers-tuln.html\">regulations of the master butchers of Tulln<\/a>\u00a0(1237), the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/1178Freiburg.html\">rules of the toll-collectors in Freiburg<\/a>\u00a0(1178), a collection of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heinlenews.de\/geldbild\/heller1.jpg\">Heller<\/a>, and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/darkwing.uoregon.edu\/~klio\/maps\/med\/med_trade.jpg\">map of the trade routes across Europe<\/a>,\u00a0ca. 1200<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 14 (November 21-25):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>The thirteenth-century expansion<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Church and heresy\u00a0[<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a08-9, 45-46, 52, 144, 161, 199-200, 514-515]; see a presentation of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.kenyon.edu\/Projects\/Margin\/beguines.htm\">Beguine<\/a>\u00a0movement; see also a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/departments.kings.edu\/womens_history\/elizabethsth.html\">biography of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/albert-great\/\">biography of Albertus Magnus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, 11\/23 and Friday 11\/25: Thanksgiving, no classes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 15 (November 28-December 2):<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>A new society<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New beginnings in the social system\u00a0[<em>Jeep<\/em>\u00a019-20, 28-34, 274-292, 303-306, 323-326, 332-334, 510-511, 525-532, 795-797, 822-826]<\/li>\n<li>Thirteenth-century German literature; read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stavenhagen.net\/GvS\/Prologue.html\">Prologue to Gottfried of Strasbourg&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Tristan<\/em><\/a>; see also a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leadingtone.tumblr.com\/post\/21995689300\/minnesang-mid-h-ger-love-song-refers-to-a\">presentation of <em>Minnesang<\/em><\/a>; read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Der_von_K%C3%BCrenberg\">the\u00a0Falkenlied<\/a>; see a digital version of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/diglit\/cpg848\">Codex Manesse<\/a>\u00a0in Heidelberg and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jw5vyC4Rj_E\"><em>Minnesang<\/em> competition<\/a>\u00a0in Braunschweig (2009); listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NygJsSp6IEg\">Walter von der Vogelweide&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0<em>Pal\u00e4<\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NygJsSp6IEg\">stinalied<\/a><\/em><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Reading medieval poetry &#8211; another seminar.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><span style=\"color: #ffcc33\">Week 16 (December 5-9):<\/span>\u00a0Late medieval German culture\u00a0<\/b>(research paper due on Wednesday, 12\/07)<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-655","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/fcurta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}