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9/8 Introduction
- 9/12 Origins and Roman Britain
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC). pp. 3-11 [N.B. In this and all assignments of the ASC, read only the Laud Chronicle (E).]
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History, pp. 41-62
- Warren Hollister,The Making of England,pp. 1-20
- 9/15 Anglo-Saxons: migration, settlement, conquest?
- ASC, pp. 13-21
- Bede, pp. 62-72
- Hollister, pp. 20-31
- 9/19 The Roman mission and conversion of England
- Bede, pp. 72-77, 90-142, 322-331
- Hollister, pp. 34-45
- 9/22 Early Anglo-Saxon society and culture
- "The Wanderer" (handout)
- ASC, pp. 21-55
Bede, pp. 248-251
- English Historical Documents (EHD), vol. 1, pp. 357-372 (early Anglo-Saxon law codes)
- Hollister, pp. 45-55
- 9/26 New arrivals, new response: Alcuin to Alfred
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L.B. Smith and J.R. Smith, The Past Speaks, vol. 1, pp. 15-17 (Alcuin's letter)
- Alfred the Great , pp. 67-101 (Asser's Life of King Alfred )
- ASC , pp. 57-105
- Hollister, pp. 55-65
- 9/29 Tenth-century England
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- The Past Speaks, pp. 7-11 ("The Battle of Maldon")
- ASC, pp. 105-133
- Hollister, pp. 66-84
- 10/3 Whose England?: the early eleventh century
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- ASC, pp. 133-197
- Hollister, pp. 85-92
- 10/6 Harold Godwinson and the Conquest
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- King Harald's Saga
- 10/10 NO CLASS: Columbus Day
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- 10/13 William of Normandy and the Conquest
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- ASC, pp. 197-222
- EHD, vol. 2, pp. 232-278 (The Bayeux Tapestry)
- Hollister, pp. 93-121
- 10/17 Anglo-Norman England: what price peace?
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- ASC, pp. 221-225, 233-239, 256-269
- Hollister, pp. 122-138
- FIRST PAPER DUE IN CLASS
- 10/20 War, culture, and society in the twelfth century
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Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain, pp. 212-284
- Hollister, pp. 138-143
- 10/24 Christianity and its discontents
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John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers, pp. 452-458 (Aelred on the nun of Watton)
- Hollister, pp. 205-218
- 10/27 The first Plantagenet and his realm
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- EHD vol. 2, pp. 407-410, 438-440, 446-448, 416-417
- J.C. Holt, Magna Carta, 2nd ed., pp. 23-49
- Hollister, pp. 144-161
- 10/31 Toward Bouvines and Magna Carta: Henry's sons
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Holt, pp. 75-122
- Hollister, pp. 161-173
- 11/3 A medieval city
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William fitz Stephen, Norman London
- Hollister, pp. 179-205
- 11/7 Magna Carta and its results
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Holt, pp. 188-236, 297-346, 449-473
- Hollister, pp. 173-176
- 11/10 NO CLASS (Think about/work on term papers and get a jump on next week's reading)
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- 11/14 Economy and mentality at the turn of the thirteenth century
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Jocelin of Brakelond, Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
- 11/17 Governance in the thirteenth century
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- EHD vol. 3, pp. 396-410, 924-934 (parliaments)
- Hollister, 219-250
- 11/21 Economic apogee and a very bad (?) king
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- EHD, vol. 3, pp. 799-805, 823-832 (economy and society)
- EHD, vol. 4, pp. 282-288 (Edward II)
- Hollister, pp. 253-268
- SECOND PAPER DUE BEFORE THANKSGIVING BREAK
- 11/28 The beginning of the end, I: war and deposition
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- EHD, vol. 4, pp. 60-69, 77-82, 92-99 (Edward's war),
172-184 (Richard's troubles)
- Hollister, pp. 269-281
- 12/1 The beginning of the end, II: plague and revolt
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- The Past Speaks, pp. 199-205 (Henry Knighton on the Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt)
- EHD, vol. 4, pp. 127-140 (The Peasant's Revolt)
- Hollister, pp. 282-303
- 12/5 English lives in the fourteenth century
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Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue and the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale from The Canterbury Tales
- 12/8 Conclusions
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- 12/12 Review section
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- 12/15 FINAL EXAMINATION
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