Week 1 (Aug 24)
Reading:
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Introduction: The Roman Palimpsest and the Absence of Dirt
Duffy preface, 1.1-2
Gregorovius, introductions (E-Reserve, since you won’t have the book yet)
Excerpts from Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Part 1 (E-Reserve)/Part 2
Excerpt from Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
History of Rome Timeline
Guidelines for Reading a Primary Source
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Week 2 (Aug 31)
Reading: |
Constantine and Roma Christiana
Krautheimer [Rome, Profile of a City] chaps. 1-2
Duffy 1.3-4
Online documents: Eusebius on the conversion of Constantine; Notitia dignitatum on the late Western Empire; Liber pontificalis, intro & life of St. Silvester (E-Reserve)
Kirsch on the Roman catacombs (E-Reserve); ALSO: look at http://www.catacombe.roma.it
Curran, “The Christianization of the Topography of Rome, 337-384” (E-Reserve)
Krautheimer, 3 Christian Capitals, chap. 3 on Milan (E-Reserve)
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Week 3 (Sept 7)
Reading: |
The Rise of the Papacy: Gregory the Great & the Barbarian Hordes
Krautheimer chap. 3
Duffy 2.1-3
Gregorovius 1.1-3
Online documents: the Donation of Constantine; Leo I on the Petrine doctrine; Leo I’s meeting with Attila; Gregory the Great on the papal estates; excerpts from Gregory’s Pastoral Rule; Bede, Paul the Deacon, and Gregory of Tours on Gregory the Great; *excerpts from Jerome and Augustine; Julian the Apostate and Zosimus on the end of paganism; *Valentinian’s Edict of 445; *Rutilius Namatianus; and Ammianus Marcellinus on late antique Rome (* are at E-Reserve all in one pdf)
Lees-Milne, “Constantine’s Basilica” (E-Reserve)
Birch, “The Cult of Saints and Pilgrimage to Rome” (E-Reserve)
McCulloh, “From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Continuity and Change in Papal Relic Policy from the 6th to the 8th Century”
Noble, “St. Peter’s Peculiar People” (E-Reserve)
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Week 4 (Sept 14)
Reading: |
The Rise of the Church: Rome & the Ninth-Century Empire
Map quiz
Krautheimer chaps. 4-5
Duffy 2.4
Gregorovius 1.4-6
Online documents: Liber pontificalis, lives of Stephen II & Leo III (E-Reserve); Einhard & Notker on Charlemagne & the coronation of 800
Hammer, “The Concept of the New or Second Rome in the Middle Ages” (at JSTOR)
Geary, excerpt from Furta Sacra on the relic trade (E-Reserve)
Delogu, “The Rebirth of Rome in the 8th and 9th Centuries” (E-Reserve)
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Week 5 (Sept 21)
Reading: |
Struggle for Primacy: Antipopes & the Investiture Conflict
Krautheimer chap. 6
Duffy 3.1
Gregorovius 1.7-12
Online documents: the papal decree of 1059, Dictatus Papae, letters of Emperor Henry IV & Pope Gregory VII, the Concordat of Worms
Partner, Lands of St. Peter, chaps. 3 & 4 (E-Reserve)
B. Hamilton, “The House of Theophylact and the Promotion of the Religious Life among Women in 10th-Century Rome”
L. Hamilton, “Memory, Symbol, and Arson: Was Rome ‘Sacked’ in 1084?” (E-Reserve)
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Week 6 (Sept 28)
Reading: |
The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century: Toward a Commune 1.0
Krautheimer chap. 7
Duffy 3.2
Gregorovius 2.1-7
Gardiner and Nichols, eds., Mirabilia urbis Romae
Online documents: description of Monte Cassino (E-Reserve), Master Gregory on pagan antiquities (E-Reserve), William of Malmesbury & Hildebert of Lavardin (E-Reserve), Otto of Freising on The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa (E-Reserve), Frederick & the Lombards
Waley, The Italian City-Republics, chap. 3 (E-Reserve)
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Week 7 (Oct 5)
Reading: |
Pilgrimage & the Jubilee of 1300
Krautheimer chap. 8
Duffy 3.3 and part of 4 (read to For the rest of the 14th century...; ppb p. 163)
Gregorovius 2.8-10
Online document: Giovanni Villani on the Jubilee (E-Reserve)
Birch, Pilgrimage to Rome, chaps. 2 & 3 (E-Reserve)
Brentano, Rome before Avignon, chaps. 1-5
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| --Fall Break (Oct 10-14)-- |
Week 8 (Oct 19)
Reading: |
Palimpsest Presentations & Mid-Semester Summary
Krautheimer chaps. 9-14
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Week 9 (Oct 26)
Reading: |
Popeless Rome & Cola di Rienzo: Toward a Commune 2.0
Rest of Duffy 3.4
Gregorovius 2.11-16
Wright, The Life of Cola di Rienzo
Online documents: the outrage at Anagni; letter of Catherine of Siena to Gregory XI; letters of Petrarch
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Week 10 (Nov 2)
Reading: |
Renovatio Romae: Nicholas V, Alberti, & the Humanists
Stinger chaps. 1-4
Gregorovius 3.1-7
Online document: Antonio Manetti on Brunelleschi’s trip to Rome
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Week 11 (Nov 9)
Reading: |
High Renaissance Rome: Aristocratic Intrigue, Debauchery, & the Sack of 1527
Stinger chaps. 5-8
Gregorovius 3.7-14, conclusion
Online documents: Lorenzo de’ Medici’s advice to his nephew
Excerpts from Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography (E-Reserve)
Cohen & Cohen, “The Abbot’s Assassins” (E-Reserve)
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Friday, Nov 11: Annual Symposium at Florida Southern College:
"Monsters and the Monstrous in the Middle Ages" |
| Week 12 (Nov 16)
Reading:
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HRR Continued: The Artistic Legacy
Paper drafts due
Raphael’s letter to Leo X (E-Reserve)
Frommel, “Papal Policy: The Planning of Rome during the Renaissance”
Partridge, “Palaces: Magnificence and Mayhem” (E-Reserve)
Campbell, “The New St. Peter’s: Basilica or Temple?” (E-Reserve)
Coffin, excerpts from The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome (E-Reserve)
Jacks, Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity, chaps. 4 and 5 (E-Reserve)
Spenser, Ruines of Rome, excerpts (to be passed out in class)
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| Weeks 13 & 14 (Nov 23 & 30) |
Roundtable Discussion of Student Paper Drafts |
