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科目名稱：中古地中海歷史（400-1000）

Course Name: Medieval Mediterranean History, 400-1000 CE
  • 學年學期：113-1 Fall Semester, 2024
  • 科目代碼：103267001 Course No.103267001

修別：群

Type of Credit: Partially Required

3.0

學分數

Credit(s)

50

預收人數

Number of Students

課程資料Course Details
  • 開課單位：歷史二 Course Department:History/B/2
  • 授課老師：周怡齡 Instructor: CHOU CATHERINE LILA
  • 先修科目：無Prerequisite(N/A)
  • 上課時間：五234 Session: fri09-12

課程簡介Course Description

This course dramatizes the medieval era as both a mystery and a succession crisis:

  1. Why did the Roman Empire – which reached its height in the 2nd century CE – break apart politically, leaving the “Byzantine” Empire in the east and new barbarian kingdoms to the west?
  2. Which of the successor kingdoms and empires – and beginning in the 7th century CE, Islamic caliphates – had the best claim to being the rightful inheritor to the Roman Empire?
  3. Why did the swath territory we now call Western Europe end up becoming (largely) religiously united – under the Roman Catholic Church – but politically divided into individual kingdoms with varying ethnic and group identities, during the period from 400 to 1000 CE?

核心能力分析圖 Core Competence Analysis Chart

能力項目說明

    課程目標與學習成效Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes

    Learning Goals and Outcomes 學習目標與成效

    1. Ability to read deeply 具備深度閱讀的能力 

    2. Ability to write effectively 具備有效寫作技能

    3. Ability to effectively use university resources  具備有效運用大學各項學習資源

    4. Ability to work in teams and undertake special projects 具備團隊合作與專題製作能力

     

    每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

    教學週次Course Week 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type

    Readings and Topics

    Friday, September 13th – Introductory Lecture and Activities (Week One)
     

    How did Christianity develop from a Middle Eastern cult into the dominant religion of the post-classical Mediterranean world? 

    Friday, September 20th (Week Two)

    1. Mark Humphries, “Christianity and Paganism in the Roman Empire, 250-450 CE”, in A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity (Wiley Blackwell, 2018), p. 61-80
    2. Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski, “Creeds, Councils, and Doctrinal Development”, in The Early Christian World (Wiley Blackwell, 2017), p. 631-646.
    3. Augustine, Confessions, trans. Maria Boulding (New City Press, 2007) 

     

     

    How was the Mediterranean region transformed in a late and post-imperial world? How were old and new peoples (re)constituted in the Early Middle Ages? 

    Friday, September 27th (Week Three)

    1. P.J. Heather, Chapters 4-5, “The Danube Crossing and Gothic War” and “The Peace of 382 and After”, in Goths and Romans, 332-489 (Oxford University Press, 1994)

     

    Friday, October 4th (Week Four)

    1. Andrew Merrills and Richard Miles, Chapter 3, “Ruling the Vandal Kingdom, AD 435-534”, in The Peoples of Europe: The Vandals (Wiley Blackwell, 2010), p. 56-82.

     

    Friday, October 11th (Week Five)

    1. Magali Coumert, “Transformations of Identities: Barbarians and Romans in the Merovingian Realm”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World (Oxford University Press, 2020), p. 99-116.
    2. Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks (Columbia University Press, 1916 translation)

     

     

    (Why) did the Roman Empire fall? What is the significance of claiming that it did not “fall”, but was reorganized or slowly dissolved instead? 

    Friday, October 18th (Week Six)

    1. Peter J. Heather, Chapter 9, “End of Empire” and Chapter 10, “Fall of Rome”, in The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Oxford University Press, 2005)
    2. Salvian, On the Government of God, trans. Eva Matthews Sanford (Columbia University Press, 1930) 

     

    Friday, October 25th (Week Seven)

    1. Jonathan J. Arnold, Chapter 3, “Princeps Romanus” and Chapter 4, “The Imperial Image”, in Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

     

    Friday, November 1st (Week Eight)

    1. Santiago Castellanos, Chapter 2, “Political Overview: The Beginnings of the Gothic Kingdom in Iberia”, in The Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia: Construction and Invention (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

     

    Outline for research paper due

     

    Friday, November 8th (Week Nine)

    Midterm exam

     

    Friday, November 15th (Week Ten)

    No class, time to finish research paper

     

    How did the rise of the ‘sibling cultures’ of Byzantium and early Islam contribute to the formation of a distinctively ‘Western’ Europe? 

    Friday, November 22nd (Week Eleven)

    1. Anthony Kaldellis, “From Rome to New Rome, from Empire to Nation-State: Reopening the Question of Byzantium’s Roman Identity”, in Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2012)
    2. Andrew Louth, “Justinian and His Legacy”, in The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500-1492 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
    3. Procopius, Secret History, ed. Peter Sarris (Penguin, 2007) 

    Friday, November 29th (Week Twelve)

    1. The Quran, ed. A.J. Droge (Equinox Publishing, 2013)

     

    Research paper due

    Class time to begin final project 

     

    Friday, December 6th (Week Thirteen)

    1. Judith Herrin, The Formation of Christendom (Princeton University Press, 2001) 

     

    First scaffolding assignment for final project due

     

    Friday, December 13th (Week Fourteen)

    1. Corisande Fenwick, Chapter Fourteen, “The Umayyads and North Africa”, in The Umayyad World (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
    2. Janina M. Safran, Chapter 1, “The Structuring of Umayyad Rule”, in Defining Boundaries in Al-Andalus: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia (Cornell University Press, 2013)

     

    Rome Has Fallen, Long Live Rome? On the succession to the Roman Empire in the 9th century

     

    Friday, December 20th (Week Fifteen)

    1. Marios Costambeys, Chapter 1, “The Creation of Carolingian Kingship to 800”, in The Carolingian World (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

     

    Second scaffolding assignment for final project due

     

    Friday, December 27th (Week Sixteen)

    1. Stuart Airlie, Chapter 3, “A House and its Head: The Reign of Charlemagne 768-814”, in Making and Unmaking the Carolingians, 751-888 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

     

    Friday, December 27th (Week Seventeen)

    1. Julia Smith, Europe After Rome: A New Cultural History, 500-1000 (Oxford University Press, 2005)

     

    Friday, January 10th (Week Eighteen)

    Flexible learning week, final project due

    授課方式Teaching Approach

    25%

    講述 Lecture

    50%

    討論 Discussion

    20%

    小組活動 Group activity

    5%

    數位學習 E-learning

    0%

    其他： Others:

    評量工具與策略、評分標準成效Evaluation Criteria

    Class Attendance and Participation 課堂出席與參與: 16% (1% x 16 weeks of classes)

    Small group attendance and participation 小組出席與參與: 16% (1% x 16 weeks of classes)

    Notebook submission: 8%

    Research Paper 研究論文: 20%

    Outline 大綱 (Friday, November 1st)

    Final 最終稿 (Friday, November 29th)

    Midterm Exam 期中考: 20% (Friday, November 8th)

    Final Project 期末作品: 20%

            1st Scaffolding Assignment 初步作業 1 (Friday, December 6th)

    2nd Scaffolding Assignment 初步作業 2 (Friday, December 20th)

    Final draft due 最終稿 (Friday, January 10th)

     

     

     

    指定/參考書目Textbook & References

    Textbook: Judith M. Bennett, Medieval Europe: A Short History (Oxford University Press, 2020). This is the 12th edition, but you can purchase the 11th or 10th

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