The
Crusades
PROFESSOR HYAMS
Fall 2004
Malott Hall, Bache
MWF 10:10 - 11:00
The
Crusades
PROFESSOR HYAMS
Fall 2004
Malott Hall, Bache
MWF 10:10 - 11:00
Office Hours
Prof. Hyams MG 307 (5-2076, 257-3168) Wed 11:15 am - 12:15 pm; Thurs 3:30 - 4:15 pm
Yael
Nadav-Manes (TA) MG
B42 Wed 12:15 - 1:15 pm
Colleen Slater (TA) MG B42 M 12:15 - 1:1 5 pm
REQUIRED READINGS:
J. Riley-Smith, The Crusades: a Short History (1987).
H.E. Mayer, The Crusades (2nd ed., 1988)
Oxford History of the Crusades, ed. Riley-Smith (1999)
C. Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspective (1999)
Allen & Amt (eds.), The
Crusades: A Reader
J. Prawer, The Latin
Kingdom of Jerusalem: European Colonialism
in the Middle Ages (1972) [Selections in Course
Packet]
OPTIONAL READINGS:
P.K. Hitti (transl.), An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior .. (1929)
[Memoirs of Usamah ibn-Munqidh]
The Rare and Excellent History of
Saladin [Behaeddin], ed. & transl. D. S. Richards
Readings marked [UF] are to be found on reserve in
an old course packet.
This is the fuller and authoritative version of this prospectus at <http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/prh3/259/index.html>. It may change shape over the term. Some images and sources in translation are available there plus links to others elsewhere. Enter the first time through <http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/prh3/disclaimer.html>.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
1. Paper I (about 5 pp.) on the First Crusade & the Crusading
Idea
[15% of Final Grade]
2. Prelim Exam: Documents for comment. Take-Home. [20% of Final Grade]
3. Paper II (about 15 pp.) [25% of Final Grade]
4. Final Exam during the Exam Period. [35% of Final Grade]
5. Attendance at and participation in classes and in discussions. [5%
of final grade]
PAPERS:
WEEKLY READINGS & CLASS FORMAT:
- A selection of books and other materials you may find helpful for the two papers is on Reserve in Uris Library.
- If you are unsure about the requirements for the Way to Write a History Paper, you can ask one of us for help in Office Hours.
This is basically a lecture class. It assumes as little previous knowledge as possible, and will probably serve most students as a kind of first introduction to Western History in this period. Of course, it would help for you to know something of the course of medieval European history as background. Although there is no quick fix, those with no previous exposure to the period may like to take a look at a very short sketch by one young historian. In any event, you do not have to sit there submissively taking notes in silence. I enjoy and welcome discussion. So I shall often leave space at the end of a class for question and answer, and may bring along (or ask you to bring along) translated source materials to read and discuss together. You are also welcome to raise difficulties in the readings at (or before) the start of any class. (Bring the book with you!)
In order to make the best use of the in-class Discussion Sessions on Fridays, it is essential to complete the Readings by Wednesday at the latest. You really need to master the first reading by Monday. In a course like this on an area of ever-expanding interest, lectures cannot hope to exhaust the subject and aim to supplement not repeat material from the readings. We shall hold irregular quizzes to encourage you to do the reading.
Discussion Sessions: There are no compulsory Discussion
Sections
in this course. But all being well we shall start after the
first few weeks to break up Friday classes into smaller groups for
source reading and discussion. In them, we
shall read review the readings for the week and advance understanding
through
reading and discussion of relevant source documents. Two will be at the
standard Friday time of 10:10, in MT Bache and BR 608, and two at 1:25
in GS G20 and RF 183.
Online Discussions: I shall probably open a Class Discussion page online early in the term as an another means to promote the sharing of knowledge and understanding. Watch this spot for the link that will get you into it. All can and should view the results. Those who contribute questions and views will receive due credit at the end of the term. Nobody will be penalized for what they do or do not contribute. So please give it a go, air your concerns, and make it useful. To gain access, Click Here, and then follow the simple instructions. Anyone can post a follow-up, ie a point on a question previously raised and up on the board for all to see. Talk to one of us, please, before you post your own questions.
Office Hours: Please come in early in the term; attendance is a real part of the course. It gives us the chance to make your acquaintance well before any crises with papers etc., also to clear up points of interest that may turn into paper topics or that emerge from the lectures to trouble you.
A session on The Music of the Crusades will be arranged, probably around Week VI or VII. There will also be video sessions on Crusader Jerusalem etc. These TBA.
SCHEDULE
OF WEEKLY READINGS &
ASSIGNMENTS
Try this
useful Crusades
Timeline to 1291 with no guarantees of its accuracy
I. Introduction & Overview: MWF Jan
26, 28, 30
FIRST PAPER
TOPICS TO BE AGREED BY FRIDAY FEB 6
III. The First Kingdom to 1174: MWF Feb 9,
11, 13
A
CONTEMPORARY MOSLEM VIEW ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF NUR AL-DIN
A SPANISH MOSLEM ON
PILGRIMAGE
TO MECCA VISITS OUTREMER IN THE 1180S
EVERYTHING
YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT HADITH etc., AND MORE!
BUKHARI
HADITHS SPECIFICALLY ON THE JIHAD
FIRST PAPER
DUE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20
"THE
LISBON EXPEDITION, 1147"
EUGENIUS
III CRUSADING BULL, 1145
THE WURZBURG
ANNALIST ON
THE FAILURE
Ibn al-Qalanisi on
Damascus,
1148 (Gabrieli, Arab Chronicles of the Crusades, 56-9)
William Tyre on the
Failure
at Damascus, 1148 (Hallam, Chronicles of the Crusades (1989),
146-7)
VI. Development of the Crusading Idea: MWF
March 1, 3, 5
EXHORTATION
TO THE TEMPLARS, ? BY HUGH DE PAINS, ?1128
St.
Bernard's "In Praise of the New Chivalry"
The
Templar Rule (French version in English translation)
SONG
OF ROLAND
THE
VEZELAY NARTHEX TYMPANUM But
before going to the Vezelay pages, print out this guide and key to the Tympanum
If you search the 'Net for "just war
theory", you will find lots of material including much that relates to
the recent war in Iraq. One such Catholic response to a
questioner gives an
Outline of the Augustinian view
WILLIAM
OF TYRE ON THE LATIN KINGDOM AFTER 1150
1164
LETTER FROM ANTIOCH TO LOUIS VII OF FRANCE
1187
PLEA FOR AID TO HOSPITALLERS, WITH BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HATTIN
ANOTHER
ACCOUNT OF HATTIN For more on Hattin, see under Week XIII
SALADIN'S
CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM, 1187
ROGER
OF HOWDEN'S EXPLANATION FOR THE LOSS OF JERUSALEM, 1187
DEATH
OF EMPEROR FREDERICK BARBAROSSA EN ROUTE FOR 3rdCRUSADE
The
3rd CRUSADE RECAPTURES ACRE, 1191
PEACE
TO END 3rd CRUSADE, 1191
Thursday 4.30 pm in Kaufmann
Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Richard Landes (Boston University) will deliver a University Lecture "When Adam Delved and Eve Span: Demotic Christianity and the Economic Expansion of Medieval Europe" as the opening event of the National Graduate Students' Vagantes Conference in Medieval Studies Barnes Hall from Friday 8.45 am to Sunday 1 pm Students are especially welcome at all these events |
Because of the Vagantes Conference,
there will be no Friday class this week.
VIII. Crisis c. 1200 I: the Fourth
Crusade MWF March 15, 17, 19
Morris, "Geoffrey de Villehardouin & the Conquest of Constantinople", 24-34 UF
Words
VILLEHARDOUIN ON THE 4th CRUSADE (Full Text)
ROBERT OF CLARI ON THE 4th CRUSADE (Full Text)
NICETAS KHONIATES ON SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE, 1204
Some further accounts of the Sack of Constantinople etc.
IX. Crisis c. 1200 II: Political Crusades & Criticism: MWF
March 29, 31; April 2
JONVILLE'S
LIFE OF ST. LOUIS
AL-MAQRISI
ON ST. LOUIS' CRUSADE
XII. The Latin East in the Thirteenth Century: MWF
April 19, 21, 23
XIII. Warfare:
MWF April 26, 28, 30
Images of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem:
| HIST
259
FINAL EXAM 9 am, Fri May 21 MG 165 |
Crusade
of the Poor
Battle
of Dorylaeum, 1097
Modern
Account of Jerusalem's Capture, 1099
Anna
Comnena
Map of Jerusalem in 12th Century
A Modern View of Saladin's Capture of Jerusalem, 1187
Women
and the Crusades
Eleanor
of Aquitaine
Queen
Melisende
Skip Knox's Short History of the Crusades
Skip
Knox's Pilgrim's Route to Jerusalem
Franciscan
Images of the Holy Land of the Crusades
A
Student's Photo Journal of Crusader Israel
Skip Knox on Islam during the Crusades
Paul Crawford on the Military Orders
Map
of Europe c. 1120
An
Historical Atlas for the Middle Ages
Historical
Atlas for Period
MS Images of the Crusades from BN, Paris
Les
Capetiens et les Croisades (in French)
Aquinas
on Just etc. War
Sources
(primary and secondary) on Warfare in the Crusades
