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Date: Aug 28, 2018
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Date: Aug 31, 2018
Read Venantius Fortunatus’ Life of St. Radegund
Date: Sep 4, 2018
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Read excerpts from Ibn Hazm, Ring of the Dove, Ring of the Dove.pdf
Date: Oct 2, 2018
Read excerpts from Abraham Ibd Daud on Samuel Ha-Nagid (aka Samuel ibn Nagrillah) at https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/ha-nagid.asp
Date: Oct 4, 2018
Date: Oct 5, 2018
Read the short reliquary entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliquary and then explore three reliquaries.
Date: Oct 9, 2018
Read 2 chapters from Patrick Geary, Furta sacra: thefts of relics in the central Middle Ages (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1990).
Everyone reads Chapter 2
Date: Oct 11, 2018
Date: Oct 12, 2018
Read Peter Damian’s *Life of Romuald**
Date: Oct 16, 2018
Watch this awesome animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry
Explore the sub-menu items under “The Bayeux Tapestry” main-menu item at http://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/la_tapisserie_de_bayeux_en.html (there’s at least one menu item of interest for each of the content-specific timeline groups)
Date: Oct 18, 2018
Date: Oct 19, 2018
Read excerpts from Suger–Deeds of Louis the Fat.pdf.
Date: Oct 23, 2018
Read excerpts from IbnShaddad_SaladinSmall.pdf (a low-res PDF is in Canvas Files).
Date: Oct 25, 2018
Date: Oct 26, 2018
Read Hildegard of Bingen: Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions (trans by Beverly Mayne Kienzle, , Jenny C. Bledsoe, , Stephen H. Behnke, and Hildegard of Bingen Staff), Introduction (sections Hildegard in the 1170s, The Solutions) and Questions 14-20. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/iub-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4546383
Listen to Hildegard’s Femina Forma Maria composition while you read.
Date: Oct 30, 2018
Read excerpts from a variety of sources collected by Aberth in The Great Mortality. There are two introductions (general and Societal & Cultural Impact); then focus on Petrarch, Boccaccio and Al-Maqrizi’s chronicles. Skim the Cortes of Castile and Wiltshire England Assizes.
Date: Nov 1, 2018
Date: Nov 2, 2018
Read the Papal Bull of Alexander IV canonizing St. Clare of Assisi: https://franciscan-archive.org/bullarium/clara.html
Date: Nov 6, 2018
Read the Wat Tyler Rebellion section (III) of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles
Date: Nov 8, 2018
Date: Nov 9, 2018
Read Sewell, “Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille”
Date: Nov 13, 2018
Break your group’s timeline into sections and name them. Be prepared to share these named sections with your group and the whole class.
Date: Nov 15, 2018
An MS Word or text document that meets the requirements for your preferred grade and contains your requested grade with a clear label at the top of the document.
Find the line with your preferred grade for your final draft. Your timeline entry should fulfill all of the features up to and including the line with your preferred grade on it. Bullet-point outlines will not be graded on length.
All papers must be:
Grading is based on how many trends you use to illustrate historical change (period breaks) and continuity (internal consistency within a period), how many sources you use to illustrate those trends, and how much outside scholarly information you bring to bear on those trends.
| **C** | 2 trends illustrated by 2 examples from 2 primary sources drawn from class readings in each period. ~2500 words. |
| **C+** | 2 trends illustrated by 3 examples from 2 primary sources drawn from class readings in each period. ~2750 words. |
| **B** | 2 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, and illustrated by 3 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period. ~3000 words. |
| **B+** | 2 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, and illustrated by 3 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class. ~3250 words. |
| **A-** | 3 trends and illustrated by 4 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class. ~3500 words. |
| **A** | 3 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, illustrated by 4 examples from 4 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class and 1 of which is supported by a related secondary source that provides another scholar's understanding of periodization ~3750 words. |
| **A+** | 3 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, illustrated by 4 examples from 4 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class and 1 of which is supported by a related secondary source that provides another scholar's understanding of periodization. ~4000 words. |
Date: Nov 16, 2018
Two versions of Miri Rubin’s history: Our textbook and Rubin’s Mother of God: a history of the Virgin Mary (https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8085109). Table of contents for Rubin Mother of God Contents.pdf
Date: Nov 28, 2018
How do your timeline sections and names sync up with the timeline divisions and basic trends in Miri Rubin’s Mother of God? With another timeline? Be prepared to share your comparisons with your group members and the whole class.
Date: Nov 29, 2018
An MS Word or text document that meets the requirements for your preferred grade and contains your requested grade with a clear label at the top of the document.
Find the line with your preferred grade for your final draft. Your timeline entry should fulfill all of the features up to and including the line with your preferred grade on it. Word-Barf drafts should be a minimum of 1500 words and ideally should draw on the structure you created in your Periodization Bullet-Point Outline.
All papers must be:
Grading is based on how many trends you use to illustrate historical change (period breaks) and continuity (internal consistency within a period), how many sources you use to illustrate those trends, and how much outside scholarly information you bring to bear on those trends.
| **C** | 2 trends illustrated by 2 examples from 2 primary sources drawn from class readings in each period. ~2500 words. |
| **C+** | 2 trends illustrated by 3 examples from 2 primary sources drawn from class readings in each period. ~2750 words. |
| **B** | 2 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, and illustrated by 3 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period. ~3000 words. |
| **B+** | 2 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, and illustrated by 3 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class. ~3250 words. |
| **A-** | 3 trends and illustrated by 4 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class. ~3500 words. |
| **A** | 3 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, illustrated by 4 examples from 4 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class and 1 of which is supported by a related secondary source that provides another scholar's understanding of periodization ~3750 words. |
| **A+** | 3 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, illustrated by 4 examples from 4 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class and 1 of which is supported by a related secondary source that provides another scholar's understanding of periodization. ~4000 words. |
Date: Dec 4, 2018
An MS Word or text document that meets the requirements for your preferred grade and contains your requested grade with a clear label at the top of the document.
Find the line with your preferred grade for your final draft. Your essay should fulfill all of the features up to and including the line with your preferred grade on it. Ideally, this should draw on your Periodization Word-Barf Draft.
All papers must be:
Grading is based on how many trends you use to illustrate historical change (period breaks) and continuity (internal consistency within a period), how many sources you use to illustrate those trends, and how much outside scholarly information you bring to bear on those trends.
| **C** | 2 trends illustrated by 2 examples from 2 primary sources drawn from class readings in each period. ~2500 words. |
| **C+** | 2 trends illustrated by 3 examples from 2 primary sources drawn from class readings in each period. ~2750 words. |
| **B** | 2 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, and illustrated by 3 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period. ~3000 words. |
| **B+** | 2 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, and illustrated by 3 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class. ~3250 words. |
| **A-** | 3 trends and illustrated by 4 examples from 3 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class. ~3500 words. |
| **A** | 3 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, illustrated by 4 examples from 4 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class and 1 of which is supported by a related secondary source that provides another scholar's understanding of periodization ~3750 words. |
| **A+** | 3 trends, 1 of which has at least 1 tie to another timeline outside of your main topic, illustrated by 4 examples from 4 primary sources in each time period, 1 of which is from outside of class and 1 of which is supported by a related secondary source that provides another scholar's understanding of periodization. ~4000 words. |
Date: Dec 14, 2018
Kalani Craig is a digital historian. She writes history and codes tools for digital historians at Indiana University-Bloomington.
This site built with Foundation 6. Kalani Craig, 2024