Reading For the Week: For discussion on Thursday and Friday please read Joan W. Scott, Gender as a useful category of historical analysis. You will also want to get a head start on Penny Schine Gold's The Lady and the Virgin.
Monday, January 6 Lecture: "History" and "Women's History"
Tuesday, January 7 Lecture: The status of women in the medieval west: an argument
Wednesday, January 8 Lecture: The rest of the argument
Reading For the Week: The lives of Clothild, Queen of the Franks and Austreberta, Abbess of Pavilly. Both of these lives are drawn from Sainted women of the Dark Ages by Jo Ann McNamara and John E. Halborg, (Duke U. Press, 1992). Both pieces are now available for download from ERes. I tried to keep these files to a managable size (2.8M and 4.6M) so the resolution is not great. This collection of texts (and the bibliography it contains) might serve as a very useful starting point for those who wish to write on an early medieval topic. I have recalled the library's copy to put it on reserve, but I will also put my own copy on 24 hour reserve as well.
Monday, January 20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day. No Class
Tuesday, January 21 Discussion: The Lives of Clothild and Austreberta
Wednesday, January 22 Lecture: Barbarian Queens
Thursday, January 23 Discussion: The Lives of Clothild and Austreberta
Friday, January 24 Lecture: The Double Monastery Due in Class Today: A one paragraph statement of the topic you have chosen for your term paper.
Reading For the Week: The Letters of Abelard and Héloïse e. Betty Radice
Monday, January 27 Lecture: Double Monasteries continued
Tuesday, January 28 Discussion: The Letters of Abelard and Héloïse
Wednesday, January 29 Guest Lecture: Power, Family, and Sanctity in Anglo-Saxon England
Thursday, January 30 Discussion: The Letters of Abelard and Héloïse
Friday, January 31 Lecture: Church, State and Marriage in the Carolingian Realm Due in Class Today: Preliminary Primary and Secondary Source Bibliography for the Term Paper.