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HIS 3942 \u2013 Weekly Topics<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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August 21<\/span>: Introduction to the course. What is love? What is marriage? Why is the history of love and marriage important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: Rampolla<\/em> 1-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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August 24<\/span>: Why does the medieval history of love and marriage matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: McCarthy<\/em> 33-36, 38-39, 66-69, 257-270 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klaus Oschema, \u201cSacred or profane? Reflections on love and friendship in the Middle Ages,\u201d in Love, Friendship, and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800<\/em>, edited by Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter, and Miri Rubin (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. 43-65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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August 26<\/span>: Discussion: What is a historical source and (why) is it important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written assignment<\/strong>: Imagine you are traveling by plane. You enter a conversation with the person sitting next to you, who is very curious to know why you want to study history. He\/she cannot understand why you study history when so many other subject matters are faster tracks to money-making professions. In a two-page essay (due in class), develop an argument that history is worth the effort and can lead to a life-fulfilling profession. You need to explain to him\/her 1) why history is important as a subject of study in and for itself; 2) why teaching history is in fact a key component of any profession. Come to class prepared to discuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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August 2<\/span>8: Falling in love in the Middle Ages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: McCarthy<\/em> 257-270, 293-295, 297-298<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernard McGinn, \u201cLove\u2019s last millennial turn,\u201d in Truth as Gift. Studies in Medieval Cistercian History in Honor of John R. Sommerfeldt<\/em>, edited by Marsha Dutton, Daniel M. La Corte, Paul Lockey (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2004), pp. 3-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruth Mazo Karras,  \u201cLove, sex, and sexuality,\u201d in A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age<\/em>, edited by Joanne Marie Ferraro and Frederik Pedersen. A Cultural History of Marriage, 2 (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 115-129.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jill Mann, \u201cFalling in love in the Middle Ages,\u201d in Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature. The Influence of Derek Brewer<\/em>, edited by Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013), pp. 88-110.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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August 31 <\/span>: Discussion. How to study history?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: Rampolla<\/em> 106-107<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written assignment<\/strong>: In a paragraph, discuss three differences between your studying habits regarding history and any other discipline of the General Education area, such as physics, chemistry, or biology. Come prepared for class discussion, using examples from your own experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 2<\/span>: A  medieval invention: courtly love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: McCarthy<\/em> 233-236, 250-255<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Kay, \u201cCourts, clerks, and courtly love,\u201d in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance<\/em>, edited by Robert L. Krueger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 81-96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albrecht Classen, \u201cDialectics and courtly love: Abelard and Heloise, Andreas Capellanus and the Carmina Burana<\/em>,\u201d Journal of Medieval Latin<\/em> 23 (2013), 161-183.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georges Duby, \u201cThe courtly model,\u201d in A History of Women in the West, 2: Silences of the Middle Ages<\/em>, edited by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap, 1992), pp. 250-266.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 4<\/span>: Discussion: How to succeed in the history major? How to take notes in a history course?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: Rampolla<\/em> 9-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written assignment<\/strong>: Come to class with notes (they can be electronic) on all of the readings for this week (McCarthy<\/em>, Kay, Classen, and Duby).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 9<\/span>: Discussion: Reading and evaluating primary sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See a guide<\/a> to how to read primary sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written assignment<\/strong>: <\/strong>in a one-page essay (due in class<\/strong>), reflect on two of the secondary literature items for September 2 pertaining to one of the primary source readings in McCarthy<\/em>–either Andreas Capellanus or Marie de France. How did the analysis in these items either support or undermine your<\/em> interpretation of that source? How are those two items different from each other in their<\/em> interpretation of that source?  Be specific and include at least one footnote (using the Chicago Manual of Style) in your response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 11<\/span>: Marriage in the early Middle Ages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: McCarthy<\/em> 50-51, 105-110, 186-189<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Au\u0111ur Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir, \u201cWomen and sexual politics,\u201d in The Viking World<\/em>, edited by Stefan Brink (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008), pp. 40-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bart Jaski, \u201cMarriage laws in Ireland and on the Continent in the early Middle Ages,\u201d in The Fragility of Her Sex? Medieval Irish Women in the European Context<\/i>, edited by Christine Meek and Katharine Simms (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996), pp. 16-42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martha Rampton, “Love and the divorce of Lothar II,” in On the Shoulders of Giants. Essays in Honor of Glenn W. Olsen<\/em>, edited by David F. Abbleby and Teresa Olsen Pierre (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015), pp. 91-115.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 14<\/span>: Discussion: Interrogating primary sources and deriving research questions from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: Rampolla<\/em> 13-18, 34-40<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written assignment<\/b>: choose two sources from among those in the assigned readings for last week\u2014a narrative (e.g., Beowulf) and a non-narrative (e.g., laws of Canute)\u2014and answer the following questions: 1. When was the text written, and who was (or may have been) the author? What is the broader historical context in which this text was created? 2. What genre is the text, and how is it organized? 3. What is the goal of the author, and who is the audience? 4. What are the main points or arguments in the text? 5. Are there any indications of rhetorical strategies, and if so why are they used?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 16<\/span>: Marriage in the High Middle Ages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: McCarthy<\/em> 61-64, 57-60, 123-129<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gillian Kenny, \u201cWhen two worlds collide: marriage and the law in medieval Ireland,\u201d in Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe<\/em>, edited by Cordelia Beattie and Matthew Frank Stevens (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 53-70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u00f6rg Peltzer, \u201cThe marriages of the English earls in the thirteenth century: a social perspective,\u201d Thirteenth-Century England, XIV. Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2011<\/i>, edited by Janet Burton, Philipp Schofield, and Bjorn Weiler (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 61-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sara McDougall, \u201cMarriage: law and practice,\u201d in The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law<\/em>, edited by Anders Winroth and John C. Wei (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 453-474.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cynthia Johnson, \u201cMarriage agreements from twelfth-century southern France,\u201d in To Have and to Hold. Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600<\/em>, edited by Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 215-259.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 1<\/span>8: Discussion: Reading and using secondary sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: Rampolla<\/em> 19-26, 43-51<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing assignment<\/b>: In a two- to three-page essay highlight what you believe to be the three most important characteristics of marriage in Western Europe between ca<\/em>. 1000 and ca<\/em>. 1300.  You must select one trait from each of the four secondary literature items. In the second part of the essay consider the legal sources in the readings for September 16. Do they complement or contradict the conclusions of the secondary literature?  Explain.  Do these texts approach the question of marriage in the Middle Ages in different and perhaps conflicting ways, or do they really agree in perspective and outlook?  Make sure you support your answer with examples from the texts (both primary and secondary sources).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 21<\/span>: Discussion: Secondary literature in foreign languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing assignment<\/strong>: Scanning the readings covered so far in this course, identify at least three titles of books, chapters in books, or articles written in (a) language(s) other than English, and explain in a paragraph why you would want to know what is in each one of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 23<\/span>: Marriage in the Late Middle Ages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: McCarthy<\/span><\/em> 77-83, 206-207, 277-281<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotte Vainio, \u201cEmpowered spouses: matrimonial legal authority in Sweden, 1350-1442,\u201d in Authorities in the Middle Ages. Influence, Legitimacy, and Power in Medieval Society<\/em>, edited by Sini Kangas, Mia Korpiola, and Tuija Ainonen (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2013), pp. 283-305.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick J. Hornbeck II, “Love and marriage in the Norwich heresy trials, 1428-1431,” Viator<\/em> 44 (2013), no. 3, 237-255.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine Peters, \u201cGender, sacrament, and ritual: the making and meaning of marriage in late medieval and early modern England,\u201d Past and Present<\/em> 169 (2000), 63-96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 25<\/span>: Discussion: How to study for a history course? History exams and test-taking strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: Rampolla<\/em> 51-54<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing assignment<\/b>: Using all the readings for last week (including the primary sources), bring a list of 7-10 discussion questions (in the form of important ideas, people and events) that highlight the major themes of this week’s topic\u2014marriage in the Late Middle Ages. Bring the list to class as a hard copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 2<\/span>8: Discussion: History exams and test-taking strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing assignment:<\/strong> In a paragraph, describe three key strategies that you have used to succeed in preparing either for Midterm or Final exams in any course in History that you have taken at the University of Florida. Come prepared to discuss those strategies in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 30<\/span>: Heloise and Abelard\u2014a sex scandal or a great love story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: McCarthy<\/em> 164-166<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deborah Fraioli, \u201cHeloise’s first letter as a reponse to the Historia Calamitatum<\/em>,\u201d Mediaevistik<\/em> 26 (2016), 119-141.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Ostrowski, \u201cHeloise. Philosopher of love and friendship,\u201d in Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800-1400<\/em>, edited by Christian Raffensperger and Erin Thomas Dailey (London: Routledge, 2024), pp. 127-135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constant J. Mews, “Abelard, Heloise, and discussion of love in the twelfth-century schools,” in Rethinking Abelard. A Collection of Critical Essays<\/em>, edited by Babette S. Hellemans, Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 229 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 11-36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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October 2<\/span>: Discussion: Developing a thesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read: Rampolla<\/em> 55-65<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing assignment<\/b>: Developing a topic that is effective and appropriate for an undergraduate research paper requires significant thought and work. You will describe and justify a topic in class by means of a brief presentation to your peers. So come to class with notes that address three major issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. What is the broad theme or issue you will be addressing?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. How you are going to examine that theme?  What is the specific gateway to your topic?  It needs to be discrete, concrete and worthy of study.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What are the primary sources that you will use to examine that specific focus of your paper? Also briefly mention the types of secondary sources you will use.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    October 5<\/span>: Discussion: Constructing an argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    See a guide<\/a> on how to build an academic argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Writing assignment:<\/strong> Using the primary and secondary sources for last week, select three facts (elements of evidence) and establish causal links between them, in order to draw a conclusion of historical nature out of that. Present your constructed argument in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    October 7<\/span>: Family love and affection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: McCarthy<\/em> 192-194, 197-217<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    John Moore, \u201cInside the Anglo-Norman family: love, marriage, and the family,\u201d in Anglo-Norman Studies, XXVIII. Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 2005<\/em>, edited by C. P. Lewis (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), pp. 1-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Diane Owen Hughes, \u201cDomestic ideals and social behavior: evidence from medieval Genoa,\u201d in Medieval Families. Perspectives on Marriage, Household and Children<\/em>, edited by Carol Neel (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 125-156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Stanley Chojnacki, \u201cThe power of love: wives and husbands in late medieval Venice,\u201d in Women and Power in the Middle Ages<\/em>, edited by Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988), pp. 126-148.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    October 9<\/span>: Discussion: A bit of Aristotelian logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: Rampolla<\/em> 65-77<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    See a guide<\/a> to Aristotle’s logic and examples<\/a> of logical fallacy in common language<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    October 12<\/span>: Adultery, domestic violence, and divorce<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: McCarthy<\/em> 42-50, 85-87, 270-273<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ronald P. Akehurst, \u201cAdultery in Gascony,\u201d in De sens rassis. Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens<\/em>, edited by Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot, and Logan E. Whalen (Amsterda: Rodopi, 2005), pp. 1-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    April Harper,  \u201cPunishing adultery: private violence, public honor, literature, and the law.\u201d Haskins Society Journal<\/em> 28 (2016): 167-184.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sara M. Butler,  \u201cAttitudes to domestic violence in Christian Europe.\u201d In A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ages<\/em>, edited by Hannah Skoda (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2023), pp. 397-414.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Constance B. Bouchard, \u201cEleanor\u2019s divorce from Louis VII; the uses of consanguinity,\u201d in Eleanor of Aquitaine. Lord and Lady<\/em>, edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002), pp. 223-235.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    October 14<\/span>: Discussion: Editing for grammar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: Rampolla<\/em> 77-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Writing assignment<\/b>: In no more than two paragraphs, answer the following questions. What is April Harper’s argument concerning adultery? In what way is she changing your own interpretation of Akehurst\u2019s arguments about the same? What is the unique perspective that each brings onto this social phenomenon in the Middle Ages, and how do their ideas contrast with the work of other scholars mentioned in their articles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    October 16<\/span>: Discussion: Editing for style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    See a guide<\/a> to editing for clear style<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Writing assignment<\/strong>: In three paragraphs, identify three characteristics of the style in any one of the readings for this week. You may wish to proceed comparatively, contrasting the style of one author with that of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    October 19<\/span>: Midterm.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    October 21<\/span>: Auxiliary disciplines in the study of the Middle Ages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    See brief presentations of medieval paleography<\/a>, numismatics<\/a>, and sigillography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    October 23<\/span>: Same-sex love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: McCarthy<\/em> 194-195, 256-257<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Matthew Kufler, \u201cMale friendship and the suspicion of sodomy in twelfth-century France,\u201d in The Boswell Thesis. Essays on \u201cChristian, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality\u201d<\/em>, edited by Matthew Kufler (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2006), pp. 179-212.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Marc Boone, City and State in the Medieval Low Countries<\/em>, Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), 52 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), pp. 241-260.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Carol Lansing, \u201cDonna con donna? A 1295 inquest into female sodomy,\u201d Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History<\/em> 2 (2005), 109-122.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Karma Lochrie, \u201cBetween women,\u201d in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women\u2019s Writing<\/em>, edited by Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 70-88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    October 26<\/span>: Discussion: Conducting research \u2013 bibliographical databases (I)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: Rampolla<\/em> 93-105<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Written assignment<\/b>: Use the library catalog to identify one \u201ctraditional\u201d primary source that offers a window onto some aspect of love and marriage in the Middle Ages. Provide complete citation information. Using the Brepols Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies<\/em>, identify two articles and\/or chapters dealing with homosexuality in the Middle Ages. Justify your selection and,  in a single paragraph, explain how you are going to obtain a copy of each article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    October 2<\/span>8: Discussion: Conducting research \u2013 bibliographical databases (II)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Written assignment<\/strong>: Using the Monumenta Germaniae Historica<\/em>, find at least two medieval authors of a century of your choice who used the word raptus<\/em>, and count the number of that word’s occurrences in the text of each author. Come to class prepared to discuss the statistical value of your results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    October 26<\/span>: Discussion: Conducting research \u2013 bibliographical databases (III)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Written assignment<\/strong>: Using the Index of Medieval Art<\/em>, find two images of prostitutes produced in the Middle Ages. Come to class prepared to discuss the context and meaning of those images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    November 2<\/span>: Raptus<\/i> (rape or abduction) and prostitution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: McCarthy<\/em> 102-104, 137-139<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Stacey E. Murrell, \u201cConcubinage in new contexts: interfaith borrowings and the rulers of Castile-Le\u00f3n in the high Middle Ages,\u201d In Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe<\/em>, edited by Christian Raffensperger (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 60-82.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Trevor Dean, \u201cA regional cluster? Italian secular laws on abduction, forced, and clandestine marriage (fourteenth to fifteenth century),\u201d in Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600<\/em>, edited by Mia Korpiola (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 147-159.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Caroline Dunn, \u201cThe language of ravishment in medieval England,\u201d Speculum<\/em> 86 (2011), no. 1, 79-116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Julie Coleman, \u201cRape in Anglo-Saxon England,\u201d in Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West<\/em>, edited by Guy Halsall (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1998), PP. 193-204.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Keiko Nowacko, \u201cPersecution, marginalization, or tolerance: prostitutes in thirteenth-century Parisian society,\u201d in Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France<\/em>, edited by Meredith Cohen and Justine Firnhaber-Baker (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 175-196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    November 4<\/span>: Discussion: What is plagiarism and how to avoid it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: Rampolla<\/em> 111-118<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Written assignment<\/b>: Complete the following exercises on plagiarism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu\/tutorial\/exercises.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/owl\/teacher_and_tutor_resources\/preventing_plagiarism\/avoiding_plagiarism\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/usm.maine.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/library\/PlagiarismExercise.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    November 6<\/span>: AI and history education<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Written assignment<\/b>: In a paragraph, compare and contrast the arguments for and against the use of AI in the teaching of history using the following short articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.historyworkshop.org.uk\/practice-history\/artificial-intelligence-a-warning-for-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.historica.org\/blog\/ai-in-history-classrooms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/activehistory.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/steering-a-middle-course-on-ai-in-the-history-classroom\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    November 9<\/span>: Contraception, abortion, and infanticide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Read: McCarthy<\/em> 277-281<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Emily R. Coleman, \u201cInfanticide in the early Middle Ages,\u201d in Women in Medieval Society<\/em>, edited by Susan Mosher Stuard (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977), pp. 47-70.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Danuta Shanzer, \u201cVoices and bodies: the afterlife of the unborn,\u201d Numen<\/em> 56 (2009), nos. 2-3: 326-365.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Marilyn Sandidge, \u201cChanging contexts of infanticide in medieval English texts,\u201d in Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality<\/em>, edited by Albrecht Classen (Berlin: Wlater de Gruyter, 2005), pp. 291-306.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    November 13<\/span>: Discussion: To quote or not to quote<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: Rampolla\u00a0<\/em>119-124<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Writing assignment<\/b>: Analyzing secondary material. Read Danuta Shanzer\u2019s essay, \u201cVoices and bodies\u2026\u201d. Your writing assignment consists of no more than two paragraphs. In one paragraph, summarize her arguments and answer the following questions: what is the main point?  what are her major claims? In the other paragraph, analyze her use of evidence through the footnotes. What are the sources she uses?  How many can you identify?  How does she deploy them to support her claims?  Does she ever make a claim that she does not seem able to substantiate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \u00a0November 16<\/span>: Bigamy and celibacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: McCarthy<\/em> 162-163, 196-217<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Trevor Dean, \u201c\u2019Bigamists\u2019 in Bologna, 1350-1500,\u201d Journal of Family History<\/em> 48 (2023), no. 1: 47-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Brian Patrick McGuire, \u201cIn search of the good mother: twelfth-century celibacy and affectivity,\u201d in Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400. Essays Presented to Henrietta Leyser<\/em>, edited by Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 85-102.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Jennifer D. Thibodeaux, \u201cThe sexual lives of medieval Norman clerics: a new perspective on clerical sexuality,\u201d in Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme<\/em>, edited by Albrecht Classen (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 471-483.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    November 18<\/span>: Discussion: Documenting sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: Rampolla<\/em> 124-126<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Writing assignment<\/b>: Read and complete the following exercises on documenting sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    http:\/\/www.grammar-quizzes.com\/writing_citations.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    http:\/\/www8.esc.edu\/htmlpages\/writerold\/exwhedoc.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    November 20<\/span>: Marriage patterns: nobles, peasants and \u201cthe right of the first night\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: McCarthy<\/em> 133-135<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Robert F. Berkhoffer, \u201cMarriage, lordship, and the \u2018greater unfree\u2019 in twelfth-century France,\u201d Past and Present<\/em> 173 (2001), 3-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Paul Branda and Paul R. Hyams, \u201cSeigneurial control of women\u2019s marriage,\u201d Past and Present<\/em> 99 (1983), 123-133.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Michael Sheehan, \u201cTheory and practice: marriage of the unfree and the poor in medieval society,\u201d Mediaeval Studies<\/em> 50 (1988), 457-487.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    November 30<\/span>: Discussion: Documentation models<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Read: McCarthy<\/em> 133-135; Rampolla<\/em> 127-158<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Writing assignment<\/b>: Using the resources discovered in this class, create an annotated bibliography on the topic presented on October 2. Your bibliography should have at least 25 titles\u2014books, articles, or chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    November 2<\/span>: Discussion: University Scholars Program and advanced research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    December 8, 3:00 to 5:00 pm<\/span>:\u00a0Final exam<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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