Pensum/læringskrav

Books:

Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Compendium (available at Akademika. Please remember to bring your student ID with you):

• Yitzhak Hen, ‘Introduction: A Series of Unfortunate Events’, in Roman Barbarians: the Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 1–26 (26 pp.)
• Yitzhak Hen, ‘Chapter 4. Religious Culture and the Power of Tradition in the Early Medieval West,’ in A Companion to the Medieval World, ed. by Carol Lansing and Edward D. English (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 67–85 (19 pp.)
• Jas Elsner, ‘Chapter 2. Between Mimesis and Divine Power: Visuality in the Greco-Roman World’, in Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance: Seeing as Others Saw, ed. by Robert S. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 45–69 (25 pp.).
• Rosamond McKitterick, ‘Conclusion: History and its Audiences in the Carolingian World’, in History and Memory in the Carolingian World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 265–83 (19 pp.);
• Janet Nelson, ‘History-writing at the Courts of Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald’, in Historiographie im frühen Mittelalter, ed. by Anton Scharer and Georg Scheibelretter (Vienna and Munich, 1993), pp. 53­–66 (14 pp.);
• Gerd Althoff, Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe, trans. Christopher Carroll (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 136–59 (24 pp.);
• Janet Nelson, ‘Was Charlemagne’s Court a Courtly Society?’ in Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Catherine Cubitt (Brepols, 2003), pp. 39–57 (19 pp.)
• Yitzhak Hen, ‘The Early Medieval West’, in The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West (Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 183–206 (24 pp.);
• Paul Edward Dutton, ‘Chapter 8. Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside’, in Charlemagne’s Moustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 169–88 (20 pp.);
• Julia M.H. Smith, Europe after Rome, pp. 13–50 (38 pp.);
• Tom Lambert, Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 1–7, 238–93 (61 pp.);
• Nicholas P. Brooks, 'The Fonthill Letter, Ealdorman Ordlaf and Anglo-Saxon law in practice', in Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. by Stephen Baxter et al. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 301–17 (16 pp.);
• Peter Brown, ‘Arbiters of the Holy: The Christian Holy Man in Late Antiquity’, in Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 57–78 (22 pp.);
• Julia M.H. Smith, ‘Saints and their Cults’, in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c.600–c.1100, ed. by Thomas F.X. Noble and Julia M.H. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 581–605 (25 pp.);
• C.H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism, 3^rd edn (Pearson Education Limited, 2001), pp. 18–36, 39–52, and 66–80 (48 pp.);
• Janet Nelson, 'Translating Images of Authority: The Christian Roman Emperors in the Carolingian World', in The Frankish World 750–900 (London: Hambledon Press, 1990), pp. 89–98 (10 pp.)
• Alan Watson, The Evolution of Law (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), pp. 66-97 (31 pp.)
• John J. Contreni, ‘The Carolingian Renaissance: Education and Literary Culture’, in The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 2, ed. by Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 709–57 (49 pp);
• Rosamond McKitterick, ‘Script and Book Production’, in Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation, ed. by Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 221–47 (27 pp.).

E-journals, e-books and e-resources:

• Walter Goffart, ‘Jordanes’s Getica and the Disputed Authenticity of Gothic Origins from Scandinavia’, Speculum 80 (2005), 379–98 (20 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• David Woods, ‘Chapter 24. Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time’, in A Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. by Philip Rousseau (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 357–71 (15 pp.) [available as e-book];
• Geffrey Koziol, ‘Review Article: The Dangers of Polemic: Is Ritual Still an Interesting Topic of Historical Study’, Early Medieval Europe 11 (2002), 367–88 (22 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• Philippe Buc, ‘The Monster and the Critics: A Ritual Response’, Early Medieval Europe 15 (2007), 441–52 (12 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• Christine Pössel, ‘The Magic of Early Medieval Ritual’, Early Medieval Europe 17 (2009), 111–25 (15 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• Steven A. Stofferahn, ‘Resonance and Discord: An Early Medieval Reconsideration of Political Culture’, in Historical Reflections 36,1 (2010), 4–16 (13 pp.) [available as e-journal].
• Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne, in Medieval Sourcebook (about 25 pp.): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/einhard.asp
• Matthew W. Dickie, Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World (Routledge, 2001), pp. 263–82 and 292–309 (39 pp.) [available as e-book];
• Adobard of Lyons, On Hail and Thunder, in Medieval Sourcebook (about 10 pp.): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/Agobard-OnHailandThunder.asp
• Mathew Innes, ‘Memory, Orality and Literacy in an Early Medieval Society’, Past and Present 158,1 (1998), 3–36 (34 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• Daniel F. Caner, ‘Chapter 39. ”Not of This World”: The Invention of Monasticism’, in A Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. by Philip Rousseau (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 588–600 (13 pp.) [available as e-book];
• H. Ellershaw, Life of Antony, Select Writings of Athanasius, Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second series, vol. 4 (New York: 1924, repr. 1957), pp. 195–221 (27 pp.), accessible in Medieval Sourcebook: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/basis/vita-antony.asp
• The Rule of St Benedict, selected chapters accessible at Medieval Sourcebook (approximately 10 pp): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/rul-benedict.asp
• Caroline Humfress, 'Law and Legal Practice in the Age of Justinian', in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian, ed. by Michael Maas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 161–84 (23 pp.) [available as e-book]
• Justinian, Novel 137, in Medieval Sourcebook (approximately 1 p.): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/justinian-nov137.asp 
• Charlemagne, General Capitulary of the missi, in Medieval Sourcebook (approximately 2 pp.): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/carol-missi1.asp

Extra readings for HIS4129:

Extra compendium for HIS4129:

• Janet Nelson, ‘Literacy in Carolingian Government’, in The Frankish World 750–900 (London: Hambledon Press, 1990), pp. 1–37 (37 pp.);
• Michelle Brown, ‘Images to be Read and Words to be Seen: The Iconic Role of the Early Medieval Book’, Postscripts 6 (2010), 39–66 (27 pp.);
• Richard Sullivan, ‘What Was Carolingian Monasticism? The Plan of St Gall and the History of Monasticism’, in After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History, ed. by Alexander Callander Murray (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 251–87 (37 pp.).

• E-journals for HIS4129:

• Lieve van Hoof and Peter van Nuffelen, ‘The Historiography of Crisis: Jordanes, Cassiodorus and Justinian in mid-sixth-century Constantinople’, The Journal of Roman Studies 107 (2017), 275­–300 (22 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• Ronald P. Formisano, ‘The Concept of Political Culture’, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31,3 (2001), 393–426 (28 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• Henry Maguire, ‘Magic and Money in the Early Middle Ages’, Speculum 72 (1997), 1037–54 (18 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• Ildar Garipzanov, ‘The Rise of Graphicacy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’, Viator 46,2 (2015), 1–21 (21 pp.) [available as e-journal];
• Peter Brown, ‘The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity’, The Journal of Roman Studies 61 (1971), 80–101 (22 pp.) [available as e-journal].