Schedule

Introduction

1. Monday, 6 July

• From Scribes to the Internet
• Foundations of the Middle Ages

Read

• Alan Jacobs, ‘79 Theses on Technology. For Disputation’, The Hedgehog Review, 27 March 2015.

Opening the Middle Ages

2. Wednesday, 8 July

• Classical Foundations
• From Scroll to Codex

Read

• Augustine, De doctrina Christiana/On Christian Teaching, ed. and trans. R.P.H. Green (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), 1–25, 49–55 (Preface, Book 1.1–26, 1.84–95: odd-numbered pages), https://doi.org/10.1093/0198263341.001.0001.
• Thomas J. Heffernan, trans., ‘The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity’, in The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 125–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199777570.003.0005.

3. Monday, 13 July

• The Liberal Arts

Read

• Cassiodorus, Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning, trans. James W. Halprin and Mark Vessey, Translated Texts for Historians 42 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003), 105–111 (Preface to Book 1), 119–21 (1.4), 133 (1.10), 159–63 (1.28, 1.29), https://doi.org/10.3828/978-0-85323-998-7.
• Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, trans. Stephen A. Barney et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 241–43 (11.2), 259–63 (12.6), https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482113.

Tuesday, 14 July: Optional Trip to Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 1:30–3:00 pm

• Meet at 1:25 inside the main entrance, at 120 St George Street (off the side of Robarts Library). Free admission.
• Space is limited: write me in advance to reserve your spot.

4. Wednesday, 15 July

• The Collapse of Roman Authority
• Byzantium and Iconoclasm

Read

• Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. P.G. Walsh (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), li–lii (summary), 3–18 (Book 1), 19–21 (2.1), 110–14 (5.6).
• John of Damascus, Three Treatises on the Divine Images, trans. Andrew Louth (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2003), 19–37.

5. Monday, 20 July

• Monasticism
• Essay Proposal Due

Read

• Benedict, Rule for Monasteries, trans. Leonard J. Doyle (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1948), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005043180 (text also at http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/50040).

6. Wednesday, 22 July

• Term Test

7. Monday, 27 July

• The Carolingian World
• Liturgical and Devotional Books

Read

• Dhuoda, Liber manualis: Handbook for Her Warrior Son, ed. and trans. Marcelle Thiébaux, Cambridge Medieval Classics 8 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 40–59, 108–17, 210–39 (odd-numbered pages).
• The Utrect Psalter: examine the manuscript; see also examples of the text in translation.

Towards Modernity?

8. Wednesday, 29 July

• Roman, Civil, Common, and Canon Law

Read

• Gratian, The Treatise on Laws (Decretum DD. 1–20), with the Ordinary Gloss, trans. Augustine Thompson and James Gordley (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1993), 2–15.
• Magna Carta 1215, trans. G.R.C. Davis, Magna Carta (London: British Museum, 1963), 23–33, available through the British Library.

No class on Civic Holiday, Monday, 3 August

9. Wednesday, 5 August

• Church, State, and Society

Read

• Hildegard of Bingen, ‘Ordo virtutum/The Play of the Virtues’, in Nine Medieval Latin Plays, ed. and trans. Peter Dronke, Cambridge Medieval Classics 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 160–84 (odd-numbered pages).
• Peter Lombard, The Sentences, trans. Giulio Silano (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2007–2010), 2:123–45 (Book 2.26–29).

10. Monday, 10 August

• Scholastic Humanism
• The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
• Essay Due

Read

• The Glosa on the Bible: selection in Ryan McDermott, trans., ‘The Ordinary Gloss on Jonah’, PMLA 128, no. 2 (March 2013): 424–38, https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.2.424 (also online at http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/18871/).
• Hugh of St Victor, Didascalicon, trans. Jerome Taylor, Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies 64 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), 43–60, 120–134 (Preface, Book 1, Book 5), https://archive.org/details/didascaliconmedi00hugh.

11. Wednesday, 12 August

• Schools and Universities

Read

• Al-Qabisi, ‘A Treatise Detailing the Circumstances of Students and the Rules Governing Teachers and Students’, trans. Michael Fishbein, in Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought, ed. Bradley J. Cook and Fathi H. Malkawi (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2010), 38–74. (Also available in Turkish.)
• Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, ed. and trans. Winthrop Wetherbee, Cambridge Medieval Classics 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 2–21 (Prologue, Book 1.1–10), 60–87 (Book 3: odd-numbered pages).

12. Monday, 17 August

• Printing and the Renaissance: The End of an Information Commons?

Read

• Cincius Romanus, ‘To his most learned teacher Franciscus de Fiana’, in Two Renaissance Book Hunters: The Letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis, trans. Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan, Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies 91 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974), 187–91, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.05978.0001.001.
• Johannes Trithemius, In Praise of Scribes/De Laude Scriptorum, ed. Klaus Arnold, trans. Roland Behrendt (Lawrence, KS: Coronado Press, 1974), 29–37, 59–65, 93–97 (epistle, chs. 1, 6, 7, 15: odd-numbered pages only).