Readings and Schedule:

SST = Margaret LaBarge, A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life (textbook)
WLME = Emilie Amt, ed., Women's Lives in Medieval Europe (sourcebook)
WWME = Carolyne Larrington, ed., Women and Writing in Medieval Europe (sourcebook)

Each class has its own page with any handouts, notes, images, and so forth. It will be password protected. Password information will be given out on the first day of class.

1. Monday, January 3 - Introductions and Early Medieval Women and the Law .
   • Primary sources to read IN class:
     • Laws of the Salian Franks (WLME: p. 39-44)
     • Laws of the Burgundians (WLME: p. 45-49)
     • Angolo-Saxon Wills (WLME: p.130-36)
       
2. Tuesday, January 4 - Early Medieval Women II
• Everyone Read FOR class - SST chapter 1
• GROUP READING FOR CLASS (R-1)
• Group 1 read FOR class- Gregory of Tours: WWME: p 164-69 and WLME: p.121-24
• Group 2 read FOR class - Bede: WWME, p. 126-28; p. 194-97
• Group 3 read FOR class - Nordic Women: WWME: p. 169-73, 175-77, 198-200
  
3. Wednesday, January 5 - Intellectual Traditions I: Jerome vs. Christine
• Everyone read FOR class SST chapter 2
• GROUP READING FOR CLASS (R-2)
  • Group 1 read FOR class - Bible, St. Jerome, Augustine: WLME 13-28 (also print out the other group's ONLINE MATERIALS)
  • Group 2 read FOR class - Christine de Pisan WWME p. 251-53 and ONLINE MATERIALS (print them out and bring them to class)
    
4. Thursday, January 6 - Intellectual Traditions II. Jerome vs. Christine
• DEBATE. Read the other group's materials before class!
  
5. Friday, January 7 - Land and Power I
• Everyone read SST chapter 3
• Primary sources FOR class (R-3):
  • Guibert of Nogent and Christine de Pisan, WLME p. 142-49, 163-65.
    
6. Monday, January 10 - Land and Power II
• FIRST TEXTUAL ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT DUE
• Read FOR class SST chapter 4
• Read IN class and discuss as a class (as much as we have time)
  • Group 1 - Norman Laws, WLME p. 53-60
  • Group 2 - Charters and rolls, WLME p. 152-57
  • Group 3 - Paston Letters, Alice de Bryene, p. 165-74.
    
7. Tuesday, January 11 - Religious Women I
• Read FOR class SST chapter 5
• READING FOR CLASS (R-4)
  • Hildegard - WLME p. 233-235, WWME p. 236-240
  • Julian of Norwich - Handout/Web material
    
8. Wednesday, January 12 - Religious Women II
• Read FOR class SST chapter 6
• Read For class and discuss (R-5)
  • Group 2 - St. Clare WLME p. 235-245.
    
9. Thursday, January 13 - Religious Women III and preview Women and Work.
• Primary Sources to read IN class.
• Margery Kempe - WLME p. 267-74
  
10. Friday, January 14 - MIDTERM
• Read FOR class SST chapter 7
• Midterm Exam. You cannot study for this other than by catching up on your reading (particularly SST)
  
11. Monday, January 17 - Women and Work I
• SECOND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT DUE
• READING JOURNAL DUE (for R 4-5)
• Reading IN class
  • Group 1 read - Gower, Margery Kempe, Ballad, WWME p. 105-112.
  • Group 2 read - Christine di Pisan - WWME, p. 31-34; Manorial Court Rolls - WLME, p. 184-188.
    
12. Tuesday, January 18 - Women and Work II and Love and Marriage I
• Lecture - Women at work.
• Source reading FOR class (R-6)
  • Canon Law, Marriage liturgy (other secular documents), Holy Maidenhood, Blessings of Marriage - WLME, p. 79-94
    
13. Wednesday, January 19 - Love and Marriage II
• Primary sources FOR class (R-7)
• Abelard and Heloise - Online material/Handout
  
14. Thursday, January 20 - Medicine and Health
• Read FOR class SST chapter 8
• Primary sources FOR class (R-8):
  • Hildegard, WWME, pp. 200-204; Trotula, parish records, WLME, pp. 98-112.
    
15. Friday, January 21 - Movie - The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) provisionally.
    • Notice all the writing due for Monday. Work ahead!
      
16. Monday, January 24 - Prostitutes and marginal women
• THIRD TEXTUAL ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT DUE
• Reading Journal due (R 6-8)
• Read for class SST chapter 9
• Primary sources FOR class (R-9):
  • WLME 210-13 and handout/online materials
    
17. Tuesday, January 25 - Heretics and Jews
• Primary sources FOR class (R-10):
  • Beatrice de Planissoles, WLME, p. 306-13 and handout/online materials
  • Maimonides, Judah Asheri, Eleazar of Mainz, sumptuary laws, responsa: WLME, p. 285-96
    
18. Wednesday, January 26 - Leaders and Rebels
    • Read FOR class SST chapter 10
    • Primary sources FOR class (R-12):
      • Joan of Arc, WWME 181-4 and online/handout-materials
        
19. Thursday, January 27 - Historiography
• Read FOR class (R-12) - Judith Bennet, " "Medieval Women, Modern Women, Across the Great Divide." (handed out in class). This assignment subject to change.
  
20. Friday, January 28 - Take home exam due. In class discussion of Exam planned.
    • Final reading journals also due (R 9-12)