Fall 2000 Lecture Topics and Schedule
(tentative)
Part One: The Central Middle Ages, 1000-1300
- 1 Sept. The Dark Past in the Year 1000
- 4 Sept. The Nature of Men (The Vikings Settle Down)
- 6 Sept. The Nature of Kingship (The Holy Roman Empire)
- 8 Sept. The Nature of Politics (Feudal France)
- 11 Sept. The Nature of Government (England)
- 13 Sept. The Thread of God: Monastic Revolutionaries
- 15 Sept. TEST: Political and Geographical Basics
- 18 Sept. The Reform Papacy Seizes the World
- 20 Sept. Who Speaks for God?
- 22 Sept. The First Crusades
- 25 Sept. St Anselm and the Intellectual Revolution
- 27 Sept. The Social Imagination: Human Hierarchies
- 29 Sept. The Feet of Society
- 2 Oct. Town Air Makes Free?
- 4 Oct. Aristocratic Culture
- 6 Oct. Towards the University: Education, Ambition, Civil Service
- 9 Oct. No Class (Yom Kippur or a reading day, as you choose)
- 11 Oct. The Battle of Giants, I: Kingship, Communities and Papacy, c. 1200
- 13 Oct. Fall Break
- 16 Oct. The Battle of Giants, II.
- 18 Oct. Wealth, Poverty, and the Spiritual Crisis
- 20 Oct. TEST: The Central Middle Ages: Church and State