SCHEDULE OF READINGS
These may be supplemented by handouts
and/or web assignments; you should consult the web regularly for course
notes
Note: If the class is small in size,
i.e., fewer than a dozen students, the schedule of readings/classes may
be altered or reduced after spring break to permit a greater focus on
individual papers
All of the following readings should
be done before the class for which they are listed:
1.10:
Introduction to the course
1.17:
Medieval Spain: an
overview; origins and distant pasts
Readings:
Architecture and Ideology, pp. 1-5; Art of Medieval Spain, pp. 3-37;
Medieval Iberia, pp. xxv-xxvii, pp. 3-4; Convivencia, pp. 1-9
1.24:
the Visigoths and the
peoples of Europe (distribution of
list of books for book review)
Readings: Architecture and Ideology, pp. 7-26; Art of Medieval Spain,
pp. 40-69; Medieval Iberia, pp. 5-25
1.31: Conquest, reconquest and
the writing of history (distribution
of guidelines for term paper)
Readings: Architecture and Ideology, pp. 77-81; Medieval Iberia, pp.
29-42, 56-61
2.7:
Asturian art and
architecture
Readings: Architecture and Ideology, pp. 27-46; Art of Medieval Spain,
pp. 112-119, 134-38, 141-51, 160-61
2.14: Mozarabs: converts,
martyrs, and exiles (BOOK REVIEW DUE)
Readings: Architecture and Ideology, pp. 47-77, 83-94; Art of Medieval
Spain, pp. 120-134, 151-62; Medieval Iberia, pp. 45-55
2.21: Test no. 1
2.28: Cordoba (PAPERS: TOPICS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE)
Readings: Architecture and Ideology, pp. 94-109, Art of Medieval Spain,
pp. 73-109; Medieval Iberia, pp. 62-74
3.7: the Taifa kingdoms and the
Hebrew Golden Age: courtly cultures
Readings: Medieval Iberia, pp. 77-80, 84-122, 180-84; Convivencia, pp.
11-21, 39-50; Art of Medieval Spain, pp. 167-73, 236-81
3.21: Christian Spain and
Europe: the pilgrimage to Santiago
Readings: Medieval Iberia, pp. 137-42; Art of Medieval Spain, pp. 174-98
3.28: Religious reform,
religious polemic, religious war
Readings: Medieval Iberia, pp. 81-83, 133-36, 143-63, 178-79, 185-206
4.4: Cultural and intellectual
exchange: art, science and translation (PAPERS:
DRAFTS DUE)
Readings: Convivencia, 50-56, 82-131; Art of Medieval Spain, pp. 199-204
4.11: Alfonso X and Jaime I:
kingdoms of three religions
Readings: Medieval Iberia, pp. 209-222, 228-236, 255-84; Convivencia,
pp. 132-55
4.18: persecution and conflict
Readings: Medieval Iberia, pp. 327-42; Convivencia, pp. 21-35, 56-58,
61-81
4.25: 1492 and beyond (FINAL PAPERS DUE)
Readings: Medieval Iberia, pp. 343-81
5.2: final exam
Revised Feb.6, 2006