WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Legal and Theological Overview

Week 0    F, Aug 25                           Preliminaries  
             
It would be a very good idea to read Karras, chap. 1 some time within the first 2 weeks or so.

Week I
    MWF, Aug 28, 30, 31; Sept 1   Development of Marriage I 
            Brundage, caps. 1-3
            Elliott, caps. 1-2                                                   words

Week II    MWF, Sept 4, 6, 8        Development of Marriage II 

            Brundage, caps., 4-5                                           words
                
                 "Theodore's Penitential on Marriage Irregularities" [R]

                 "Gregory the Great Letter to Augustine of Canterbury" [R]
                 "Letters from Missionaries to the Saxons" [R]
                 "Anglo-Saxon Betrothal regulations" [R] 


Week III
    MWF, Sept 11, 13, 15          Development of Marriage III     
            Brundage, caps. 6-8                                           words

Anstey Genealogy

Gratian on the 2 institutions of marriage
Conciliar canons on marriage
Lateran Council 1215

Week IV
    MWF, Sept 18, 20, 22    Development of Marriage IV 
            Brundage, caps. 9-10
  Bullough & Brundage, chap. 5 on Chaste Marriage

            Elliott, cap. 3                                                                            words                  

Robert of Flamborough on "Luxuria"
Church Courts pursue adulterers (William of Hoo)
Wife sues to get her husband back (William of Hoo)

Week V
    MWF, Sept 25, 27, 29    Heloise & Abelard: A great love story? 
            The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
            Newman, "Authority, Authenticity & The Repression of Heloise" J.Med. & Ren. Studies 22 (1992) [R]
            Mews [for the new "love" letters] [U]                words

Abelard, Historia Calamitatum (= Letter 1), in an old translation but good for word searches.
And do try the Australian Musical and the animated movie ("Philosophy brought them together. The world tore them apart.")!!

Week VI    WF, Oct 4, 6    Hypotheses on Western Choices: Biblical Exegesis or Economic Interest?      [NO CLASS MONDAY OCT 2 - JEWISH DAY OF ATONEMENT]
           Pagels
Brown, "Bodies & Minds: Sex & Renunciation in Early Christianity" in Halperin, Before Sexuality (1990) [R]
Bullough/Brundage. cap. 3                                  words
[optional] Goody, caps. 2-4 [U]

PRELIM EXAM
available Wed 4 due back Fri 13


FALL BREAK Sat-Wed, OCT 7-11

Week VII    W, F, Oct 11, 13    Secular Model of Marriage  

            Duby, "Marriage in the Early Middle Ages" (1978)   [R]       
            Herlihy, "The Family & Religious Ideologies in Medieval Europe" (1987) [R]
                                                                                                               words

               
Duby, The Knight, The Lady and the Priest [U]
               
Goody, caps. 5-6 [U]
                Clunies-Ross, "Concubinage in Anglo-Saxon England" (1985) [R] H.

Betrothal Document from Southern Burgundy, 994
How men ought to treat their children (Bestiary on Crows, early 12th c.)


Specialized Topics
Week VIII    MWF, Oct 16, 18, 20    Same Sex Love  
           Boswell
               Karras, 109-12, 129-47
           Bullough/Brundage, caps. 7-9                            words
 Jordan [U]
 Paul Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook offers many texts in English translation and much information, as does his LGB Catholic Handbook

CONSTANCE OF BRITTANY'S LETTER TO LOUIS VII OF FRANCE, 1160

SUBMIT PRELIMINARY LISTS OF BIBLE CITATIONS 

Week IX   MWF, Oct 23, 25, 27    Raptus (Rape/Abduction) & Prostitution
          Brundage, s.vv. index
          Bullough/Brundage, caps. 6, 10                           words
          Karras, 104-8, 112-6, 124-8

          Boyd & Karras, "The Interrogation of a Male Transvestite Prostitute" [R]

              English Rape Cases [R]
              Bracton on the Legendary Origin of the Crime of Rape" [R]

Christopher Cannon, "Raptus in the Chaumpaigne release and...the Life of Geoffrey Chaucer" (1993)

Anyone thinking of a paper on Rape should try the online Bibliography on the subject

Week X    MWF, Oct 30; Nov 1, 3    Chaste Marriage and Contraception
            Elliott, cap. 3
            Bullough/Brundage, caps. 5, 11
           
                Karras, 70-75
                Elliott, "Sex in Holy Places" [R]                                     words

Week XI    MWF, Nov 6, 8, 10   Literature I: Bawd, Love & Marriage in Fabliau & Romance 
            3 Fabliaux ("Audigier" and "The Lady who was Castrated" and "The Fisherman from Pont-du-Seine") and "The Love of Tristan's Parents" [R]
            Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love   words

  Bullough/Brundage, caps. 16-18
 
Week XII   MWF, Nov 13, 15, 17,     Marriage Patterns: Nobles, Peasants & "The Right of the First Night"
            Maria of Montpellier, esp. Cheyette (ie the sources) [R]                         A sample troubador song
            Bennett, "The Tie that Binds: Peasant Families & Families in Late Medieval England" [R]


            A. Boureau, The Lord's First Night [U]          words

Week XIII  MW, Nov 20, 22   Literature II: Chaucer
            Read one only of Canterbury Tales, ready for class presentations, as assigned, from list:
            Clerk, Franklin, Knight, Man of Law, Merchant, Miller, Nun Priest, Reeve, Shipman, Wife of Bath

                                                                            words

  Primary materials only this week, except for the possibility that Chaucer may have been a rapist! [See the bottom of the page for access instructions]
  But if anyone would like background, there are some decent lectures online
 THANKSGIVING BREAK, Wed-Mon NOV 22-27

BIBLE DOSSIER DUE Nov 27

Week XIV  Nov 27, 29; Dec 1   Conclusions? 

             Baldwin [R]
             Brundage, caps. 3-4, 6 etc.

   Elliott
   Anything on "theory", cultural or biological or both

 
TERM PAPER DUE MONDAY DEC 4th

DEC 3-6   STUDY PERIOD
DEC 6-15  FINAL EXAM WEEK

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