Fall 2018: Medieval Saints and Sinners Timeline Assignment

Timelines & their features

(60 pts, 12 submissions at 5 pts each) In week 1, you will choose a category to focus on throughout the semester.

Starting in week 2, you will identify 2 items of interest from our reading each week and use these as the basis for 2 entries to your timeline. These entries can come straight out of our reading or be related to it.

A timeline entry drawn from a historical text can have a number of different features, starting with the most fundamental and proceeding to the most historically complex. Find the line with your preferred grade. Your timeline entry should fulfill all of the features up to and including the line with your preferred grade on it.

C	Accurate identification & citation: Who, what, where, and when about the thing you've drawn from the saint's life, including the specific citation from the historical text that inspired the timeline item.
C+	Historical significance: A clear description in your own words of what makes this timeline entry significant above and beyond its who/what/when/where description, and your assessment of the perspective of the source's author, with a specific example drawn from the source that illustrates that perspective.
B-	Historical context: Describe the historical context and situate the historical significance in light of this historical context in a way that augments reader understanding of the significance of the timeline item
	Additional easy-to-find references, including:
B	Wikipedia entries or vetted website links for the timeline item or a similar item
B+	Clear descriptions in your own words of how specific elements in the additional references augment reader understanding of the significance of the timeline item
	Professional historiography, including:
A-	Related outside primary sources with full citations and a clear description of the outside source's similarity in geography, time period, topic, or subject
A	Related secondary sources (scholarly articles or monographs) with full citations that provide a nuanced historical understanding of the timeline entry and its role in understanding medieval history.
A+	Clear descriptions in your own words of how specific elements in the primary and/or secondary sources augment reader understanding of the significance of the timeline item