INTDS 180: The Year 1381, Princes and Paupers
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JOINT OFFICE HOURS
Tues 10:45-12:15, Oddfellows 232
Wed 1:30-2:30, Grounds for Change
Professor Amelia Carr
acarr@allegheny.edu
Doane Arts 214 (814)332-3378
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Office Hours: MW 11-11:50 am; M 2-5 pm; any day by appt.
Professor Jennifer Hellwarth
jhellwar@allegheny.edu
Oddfellows 232 (814) 332-4324
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Office Hours: Oddfellows 232 M 1:30pm-2:30pm, Th 10:45am-12:15pm, and also by appt.
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This interdisciplinary, team-taught course examines a "slice of life" in the year 1381. Using the Peasant's Revolt as its central text, this class focuses on the events surrounding the uprising of 1381 by examining documentary texts (literature, artwork, medicine, law) in their historical, religious, and social context. Areas of study include the social consequences of the Black Death, class struggle, princely privilege, heretical movements, and women's roles. In this introductory course, students will develop critical and analytical skills through reading, writing about, and discussing significant texts and artworks that have defined the culture of the late 14th century. Students will also learn the methodologies appropriate to such interdisciplinary study.
Spring, 2006, Tues-Thurs 9:30-10:45, Oddfellows 221
Professors A. Carr and J. Hellwarth
Syllabus
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Assignments at a Glance
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Class Resources
- The English Peasants Revolt of 1381
- Anonimalle Chronicle account of incidents of 1381
- Class handout on the first day of the course, from the ORB (Online Referene Book for Medieval Studies).
- COURTLY LOVE, Tuesday Jan 31
- The Art of Courtly Love
- From the ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies), class handout, taken from Chapter Ten of Backgrounds to Chaucer, Peter G. Beidler, Lehigh University
- Courtly Love Poetry, class handout
- Two sonnets by Petrarch (1304-1374), including one translated by Chaucer, and the texts to musical pieces by Guillaume d'Amiens (13th c.) and Guillaume de Machaut (d. 1377). In class we will also look at images from Machaut's Remedy of Love
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- Book of Revelation.
- This class requires you to have knowledge of this Biblical text. You may consult your own Bible or download a copy from this page, which provides more information on various translations.
- SIENA
- Lorenzetti Cycles
- The schema of virtues, vices, seasons, planets, and liberal arts in the Good and Bad Government frescoes of the Palazzo Pubblico (Class handout)
- Pope List
- Popes from ca. 1300 through 1420s (class handout).
- William of Ockham
- Notes on Ockham (compiled by Carr and Hellwarth), being part of the lecture "Crisis of Authority" by Prof. Glenn Holland on March 9th.
- FRANCE
- Très riches heures of John of Berry
- Online at christusrex