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315 items
Charlemagne - Roger Collins, 1998Book
Muslim Spain and Portugal: a political history of Al-Andalus - Kennedy, Hugh, 1996Book
Ottonian imperial art and portraiture: the artistic patronage of Otto III and Henry II -Garrison, Eliza, c2012
Book
The Carolingian world - Costambeys, Marios, Innes, Matthew, MacLean, Simon, 2011Book
A handbook of Anglo-Saxon studies - Stodnick, Jacqueline A., Trilling,Renee Rebecca, 2012
Book
Anglo-Saxon art: a new history - Webster, Leslie, 2012Book
Coursebooks (4 items)
A history of medieval Europe - Davis, R. H. C., Moore, R. I., 2006Book
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book
This is also very useful (1 items)
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book
Sacred fictions of medieval France: narrative theology in the lives of Christ and the Virgin,1150-1500 - Maureen Barry McCann Boulton, 2015
Book
Week 1: End of Roman Rule in the West (24 items)
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Core Reading (8 items)
Read at least one of these: (4 items)
The world of late antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad - Brown, Peter, 1971Book | esp. ch 9 but chs 1-3, pp. 82-94 are also useful
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 2010Book | chapters 4 and 6
The early Middle Ages: the birth of Europe - Olson, Lynette, 2007Book | chapter 1
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | chapter 4 [chs 1-2 are useful too]
This: (1 items)
Friends, Romans or Countrymen? Barbarians in the Empire - Williams, S. and Friell, G.,1994
Article
and one of these: (3 items)
The Penguin historical atlas of the medieval world - Jotischky, Andrew, Hull, Caroline Susan, 2005
Book | 20-1
Atlas of medieval Europe - MacKay, Angus, Ditchburn, David, 1997Book | 3-9
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book | 11-19
Further Reading (16 items)
The Mediterranean world in late antiquity, AD 395-600 - Cameron, Averil, 1993Book | chapters 2 and 4
The new Cambridge medieval history - McKitterick, Rosamond, Allmand, C. T., Abulafia,David, 1995-
Book | chapters 1 and 2
Rome, Constantinople, and the Barbarians - Goffart, W., 1981Article
Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 - Halsall, Guy, 2007Book | *
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The western Empire, 425-76 - Heather, P.Chapter
The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe - Heather, P., 1995Article
The Goths - Heather, P. J., 1998Book
The fall of the Roman Empire - Heather, P. J., 2005Book | *
Empires and barbarians: migration, development and the birth of Europe - Heather, P. J.,2010
Book
An introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900: the sword, the plough and thebook - Innes, Matthew, 2007
Book | chapter 3
Europe's barbarians, AD 200-600 - James, Edward, 2009Book
Debating the Middle Ages: issues and readings - Little, Lester K., Rosenwein, Barbara H.,1998
Book | 7-72
Barbarian Enclaves in the Northern Roman Empire - Macmullen, R.Chapter
The fall of Rome: and the end of civilization - Ward-Perkins, Bryan, 2005Book | chapters 1-3
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: a social and economic study - Whittaker, C R., 1994Book | chapters 6 and 7
The Barbarian Invasions and First Settlements - Wood, I.Chapter
Week 2: 481 (or 482) King Childeric Buried: The Successor States (30items)
Seminar Reading (9 items)
Read at least one of these: (3 items)
The world of late antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad - Brown, Peter, 1971Book | chapter 10
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Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 2010Book | chapter 7
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | chapter 5, pp. 199-202 [chapter 6 is useful too]
This (1 items)
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book | 18-21
and these: (5 items)
From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: a reader - Murray, Alexander Callander, 2000Book | no. 38
Les Francs 1 - Perin, P. and Feffer, L.-C.Chapter
The Franks - James, Edward, 1988Book | 34-77
Europe's barbarians, AD 200-600 - James, Edward, 2009Book | ch. 5
Childeric's Grave, Clovis' Succession, and the Origins of the Merovingian Kingdom - Halsall,G.
Chapter
Further Reading (21 items)
The Western Kingdoms - Collins, R.Chapter
Clovis: How barbaric, how pagan? - Dahy, W.M., 1994Article
Merovingian Gaul and the Frankish Conquests - van Dam, R.Chapter
Merovingian mortuary archaeology and the making of the early Middle Ages - Effros,Bonnie, 2003
Book
Before France and Germany: the creation and transformation of the Merovingian world -Geary, Patrick J., 1988
Book | chapters 2 and 3
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Gens, Kings and Kingdoms: the Franks - Goetz, H.-W.Chapter
The Barbarian Invasions - Halsall, G.Chapter
Barbarian migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 - Halsall, Guy, 2007Book | *
Empires and barbarians: migration, development and the birth of Europe - Heather, P. J.,2010
Book | *
An introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900: the sword, the plough and thebook - Innes, Matthew, 2007
Book | chapter 3
The Origins of Barbarian Kingdoms: the Continental Evidence - James, E.Chapter
The Franks - James, Edward, 1988Book
Europe's barbarians, AD 200-600 - James, Edward, 2009Book
From Roman provinces to Medieval kingdoms - Noble, Thomas F. X., 2006Book
The Barbarian Successor States - Pohl, W.Chapter
Strategies of distinction: the construction of ethnic communities, 300-800 - 1998Book | [available on Google Books: http://books.google.co.uk/books]
Introduction
The Shaping of the Early Medieval Kingdom - Wolfram, H., 1971Article
The Merovingian kingdoms, 450-751 - Wood, I. N., 1994Book | especially chapters 1 and 3
The Merovingian Kingdoms 481-751 - Wood, I., 1988Article | Available as a photocopy WA10913
Gregory of Tours and Clovis - Wood, I.Chapter
Kings, Kingdoms and Consent - Wood, I.Chapter
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Week 3: 597 Augustine Arrives in Canterbury: Conversions (34 items)
Seminar Reading (11 items)
Read at least one of these: (6 items)
The Anglo-Saxons - Campbell, James, John, Eric, Wormald, Patrick, 1982Book | chapter 3
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 2010Book | chapters 5 and 11
Britain in the first millennium - James, Edward, 2001Book | 146-64
The early Middle Ages: the birth of Europe - Olson, Lynette, 2007Book | pp. 53-61, 75-81
The Anglo-Saxons - Yorke, Barbara, 1999Book | especially chapter 3
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | 170-87. chapter 3
One of these: (3 items)
The Penguin historical atlas of the medieval world - Jotischky, Andrew, Hull, Caroline Susan, 2005
Book | 22-3
Atlas of medieval Europe - MacKay, Angus, Ditchburn, David, 1997Book | 38-44
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book | 22-3
and these: (2 items)
Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people - Bede, Colgrave, Bertram, Mynors, R. A.B., 1969
Book | i. 23-26, 29, 32, ii. 1, 3
Conversions to Christianity - Pryce, H.Chapter
Further Reading (23 items)
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The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons considered against the background of the earlymedieval mission - Angenendt, A.
Book | *
The church in Anglo-Saxon society - Blair, John, 2005Book | 8-49
Canterbury, Rome and the Construction of English Identity - Brooks, N.Chapter
The rise of Western Christendom: triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000 - Brown, Peter, 1996Book | chapters 12 and 13
Essays in Anglo-Saxon history - Campbell, James, 1986Book | especially chapters 3-4 *
The Debt of the Early English Church to Ireland - Campbell, J.Chapter
The Cross Goes North: Process of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300 - Carver, M.Chapter
Conversion to Christianity - Charles-Edwards, T.Chapter | *
The conversion of Europe: from paganism to Christianity, 371-1386 AD - Fletcher, R. A.,1997
Book | especially chapters 1 and 4*
St. Augustine and the conversion of England - Richard Gameson, 1999Book | Especially 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7 *
The Earliest Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms - Hamerow, H.Chapter | ch 10
An introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900: the sword, the plough and thebook - Innes, Matthew, 2007
Book | chapter 8
The coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England - Mayr-Harting, Henry, 1991Book | chapters 1-4 *
Gregory the Great and a Papal Missionary strategy - Markus, R. A.Book
Gregory the Great and his world - Markus, R. A., 1997Book | especially pp. 177-87
A background to Augustine's mission to Anglo-Saxon England - Rob Meens, 1994-12Article
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Queens, convents and conversion in early Anglo-Saxon England - Meyer, M.Book
Religion and literature in the west of England, 600-800 - Sims-Williams, Patrick, 1990Book | 54-85
Europe after Rome: a new cultural history, 500-1000 - Smith, Julia M. H., 2005Book | 220-39
The Mission of St Augustine of Canterbury to the English - Wood, I., 1994Article | *
The missionary life: saints and the evangelisation of Europe, 400-1050 - Wood, I. N., 2001Book | chapter 1, pp. 42-3, chapter 12
Christianisation and the Dissemination of Christian Teaching - Wood, I.Chapter | ch 26
The conversion of Britain: religion, politics, and society in Britain, c.600-800 - Yorke,Barbara, 2006
Book | especially chapter 2 *
Week 4: 711 Arab Conquest of Spain: Islam (29 items)
Seminar Reading (7 items)
Read at least one of these: (4 items)
The world of late antiquity: from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad - Brown, Peter, 1971Book | chapters 15 and 16
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 2010Book | chapter 9, pp. 153-161, 309-23
The early Middle Ages: the birth of Europe - Olson, Lynette, 2007Book | 61-74
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | chapters 10 and 12 [14 is also useful]
and one of these: (3 items)
The Penguin historical atlas of the medieval world - Jotischky, Andrew, Hull, Caroline Susan, 2005
Book | pp. 24-5, 95
Atlas of medieval Europe - MacKay, Angus, Ditchburn, David, 1997Book | pp. 14-16, 33-5
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The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book | 30-5
Further Reading (22 items)
Primary Sources (2 items)
Conquerors and chroniclers of early medieval Spain - Wolf, Kenneth Baxter, 1999Book
Christians and Moors in Spain - Smith, Colin, Smith, Colin, Melville, C. P., Ubaydli, Ahmad,1993
Book | texts 2-6
Secondary Sources (20 items)
Lost civilization: the contested Islamic past in Spain and Portugal - Boone, James L., 2009Book
The Cambridge companion toMuhammad - Brockopp, Jonathan E., 2010
Book
Spain: the northern kingdoms and the Basques, 711-910 - Collins, R.Chapter | ch 11
The Arab conquest of Spain, 710-797 - Collins, Roger, 1989Book | chapters 1-3
Early medieval Spain: unity in diversity, 400-1000 - Collins, Roger, 1995Book | especially chapter 5
Visigothic Spain, 409-711 - Collins, Roger, 2004Book | chapter 5
Muhammad - Cook, M A., 1983Book
Islamic and Christian Spain in the early Middle Ages - Glick, T F., 1979Book
Muhammed and the Rise of Islam - Hillenbrand, C.Chapter
An introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900: the sword, the plough and thebook - Innes, Matthew, 2007
Book | chapter 5
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The making of medieval Spain - Jackson, Gabriel, 1972Book
The Muslims in Europe - Kennedy, H.Chapter | ch 10
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in -Kennedy, H., 2008, c2007
Book
Muslim Spain and Portugal: a political history of Al-Andalus - Kennedy, Hugh, 1996Book | chapter 1
An historical atlas of Islam =: Atlas historique de l'Islam - Kennedy, Hugh, Bel, Marc,Donck, Peter van der, 2002
Book
The golden age of Islam - Lombard, Maurice, 1975Book
A vanished world: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Spain - Lowney, Chris, 2006Book
Spain in the Middle Ages: from frontier to empire, 1000-1500 - Mackay, A., 1977Book
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval and early modern Spain: interaction and culturalchange - Meyerson, Mark D., English, Edward D., 2000
Book
The medieval Spains - Reilly, Bernard F., 1993Book
Week 5: 800: Charlemagne's Imperial Coronation: Carolingian Empire(39 items)
Seminar Reading (9 items)
Read at least one of these: (3 items)
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 2010Book | chapters 15 and 16
The early Middle Ages: the birth of Europe - Olson, Lynette, 2007Book | 81-110
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | chapter 16 [17 is also useful]
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and one of these: (3 items)
The Penguin historical atlas of the medieval world - Jotischky, Andrew, Hull, Caroline Susan, 2005
Book | 26-7
Atlas of medieval Europe - MacKay, Angus, Ditchburn, David, 1997Book | 18-21
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book | 42-5
And these: (3 items)
Life or Charlemagne - EinhardChapter | OR below
Charlemagne - Collins, Roger, 1998Book | chapter 9
Charlemagne, the Saxons and the Imperial Coronation of 800 - Mayr-Harting, H., 1996Article
Further Reading (30 items)
Primary Sources (7 items)
Charlemagne's courtier: the complete Einhard - Einhard, Dutton, Paul Edward, 1998Book | *
Carolingian civilization: a reader - Dutton, Paul Edward, 2004Book
Readings in medieval history: Vol. 1: [The early Middle Ages] - Geary, Patrick J., 2003Book | section: 'The Carolingians'
Charlemagne: translated sources - King, P. D., 1987Book | *
The reign of Charlemagne: documents on Corolingian government and administration -Loyn, H R., 1975
Book
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious: the lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and theAstronomer - Noble, Thomas F. X., c2009
Book | *
The crisis of church & state, 1050-1300: With selected documents - Tierney, Brian, [1964]Book | 22-3 *
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Secondary Sources (23 items)
The age of Charlemagne - Bullough, D., 1973Book | 160-83 *
Charlemagne - Collins, Roger, 1998Book | *
France in the making 843-1180 - Dunbabin, Jean, 2000Book | chapters 1-5, pp. 1-123
The coronation of Charlemagne, 25 December 800 - Folz, Robert, 1974Book | *
Frankish Gaul to 814 - Fouracre, P.Chapter
The age of Charles Martel - Fouracre, Paul, 2000Book
The Carolingians and the Frankish monarchy - Ganshof,Francois Louis, 1971
Book | especially chapters 2 and 4
The formation of Christendom - Herrin, Judith, 1987Book
Charlemagne's Elephant - Hodges, R., 2000Article
An introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900: the sword, the plough and thebook - Innes, Matthew, 2007
Book | chapters 9 and 10
The origins of France: from Clovis to the Capetians, 500-1000 - James, Edward, 1982Book | chapters 7-9, pp. 157-208
The Frankish kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987 - McKitterick, Rosamond, 1983Book | chapters 2 and 3
Carolingian culture: emulation and innovation - McKitterick, Rosamond, 1994Book
Charlemagne: the formation of a European identity - McKitterick, Rosamond, 2008Book | *
The origin of the Carolingian empire - Munz, Peter, 1960Book
Politics and ritual in early medieval Europe - Nelson, Janet L., American Council of Learned
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Societies, 1986Book | chapters 10 and 12
Kingship and Empire - Nelson, J.Chapter
Good Kings, Bad Kings - Smith, J.M.H.Chapter
Charlemagne: empire and society - Story, Joanna, 2005Book | especially: Introduction and chapters 3, 4 and 10 *
The coronation of Charlemagne: what did it signify? - Sullivan, Richard Eugene, 1959Book | *
Plunder and tribute in the Carolingian empire - Reuter, T., 1985Article
The growth of papal government in the middle ages - Ullmann, W., [1962]Book | 87-118
The barbarian West, 400-1000 - Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., 1985Book | especially chapters 5 and 7
Week 7: 862 Estate and Bobbio Surveyed: Economy (22 items)
Seminar Reading (6 items)
Examine this website: (1 items)
Carolingian PolyptyquesWebpage | Focus particularly on Bobbio I:
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/polyptyques/bobbio1/trans.htmlYou will need to print it and bring it with you to the seminar so you can talk about it.
Read these: (5 items)
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | chapters 9, 21, 22
Aspects of the early medieval peasent economy as revealed in the polyptyque of Prum -Morimoto, Y.
Chapter
An economic history of medieval Europe - Pounds, Norman John Greville, 1994Book | 45-61
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Conclusion - H PirenneChapter
Mohammed, Charlemagne & the origins of Europe: archaeology and the Pirenne thesis -Hodges, Richard, Whitehouse, David, 1983
Book | 169-
Further Reading (16 items)
The economic development of medieval Europe - Bautier, Robert Henri, 1971Book | 9-48
Commerce in the Dark Ages: a critique of the evidence - Grierson, P., 1959Article
The Pirenne thesis: analysis, criticism, and revision - Havighurst, Alfred F., [1958]Book
The sixth century: production, distribution, and demand - Bowden, William, Hodges,Richard, 1998
Book | pp. 3-40, 203-29, 279-92. Chapters by Hodges, Delogu, Loseby, Wickham
Dark age economics: the origins of towns and trade A.D. 600-1000 - Hodges, Richard, 1989Book
Mohammed, Charlemagne & the origins of Europe: archaeology and the Pirenne thesis -Hodges, Richard, Whitehouse, David, 1983
Book
An introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900: the sword, the plough and thebook - Innes, Matthew, 2007
Book
State and society in the early Middle Ages: the middle Rhine valley, 400-1000 - Innes,Matthew, 2000
Book
The birth of Western economy; economic aspects of the Dark Ages - Latouche, R., [1967]Book
The golden age of Islam - Lombard, Maurice, 1975Book
Origins of the European economy: communications and commerce, A.D. 300-900 -McCormick, Michael, 2001
Book | *
Charlemagne: the formation of a European identity - McKitterick, Rosamond, 2008Book
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The Frankish kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987 - McKitterick, Rosamond, 1983Book
The Carolingan Age. Reflections on its Place in the History of the Middle Ages - Sullivan,R.E., 1989
Article
Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 - Wickham, Chris,2005
Book
The long eighth century: [production, distribution and demand] - Hansen, Inge Lyse,Wickham, Chris, 2000
Book | pp. 167-93, 345-77. Chapters by Loseby and Wickham
Week 8: 911 Rollo grants land to the Vikings: Impact of the Vikings (35items)
Seminar Reading (9 items)
Read at least one of these: (3 items)
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 2010Book | 370-89
The early Middle Ages: the birth of Europe - Olson, Lynette, 2007Book | 81-110
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | pp. 429-30, 439-44, 455-8, 472-80
One of these: (3 items)
The Penguin historical atlas of the medieval world - Jotischky, Andrew, Hull, Caroline Susan, 2005
Book | 30-1
Atlas of medieval Europe - MacKay, Angus, Ditchburn, David, 1997Book | pp. 23-25, 28-30
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book | 48-51
and these: (3 items)
What Caused the Viking Age? - Barrett, J.H., 2008Article
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The Vikings on the Continent - Coupland, S. and Nelson, J., 1988Article
Goodbye to the Vikings - Hodges, R., 2004Article
Further Reading (26 items)
Primary Sources (1 items)
The Normans in Europe - Houts, Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van, 2000Book | *
Secondary Sources (25 items)
Normandy before 1066 - Bates, David, 1982Book | 2-44 *
West Francia: the Kingdom - Bates, D.Chapter | ch 16
The Persistence of Scandinavian Connections in Normandy in the Tenth and Early EleventhCenturies - Breeze, L.W., 1977
Article
The Viking world - Brink, Stefan, Price, Neil, 2008Book
The Vikings in Francia and Anglo-Saxon England to 911 - Coupland, S.Chapter
The Vikings on the Continent in Myth and History - Coupland, S., 2003Article
From Poachers to Gamekeepers: Scandinavian Warlords and Carolingian Kings - Coupland,S., 1998
Article
The Norsemen in the Viking Age - Christiansen, Eric, 2002Book | *
France in the making 843-1180 - Dunbabin, Jean, 2000Book
The Viking world - Graham-Campbell, James, 2001Book
The Vikings - Graham-Campbell, James, Kidd, Dafydd, British Museum, 1980Book
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PLaying buy whose Rukles? A Further Look at Viking Atrocity - Halsall, G., 1992Article
Dudo of Saint-Quentin - the Heroic Past Imagined - Hanawalt, E.H., 1994Article
A companion to the Anglo-Norman world - Harper-Bill, Christopher, van Houts, Elizabeth,2002
Book | *
Viking pirates and Christian princes: dynasty, religion, and empire in the North Atlantic -Hudson, Benjamin T., 2005
Book
A history of the Vikings - Jones, Gwyn, 1984Book
The Vikings in history - Logan, F. Donald, 2005Book
Changing Views of the Viking Age - O'Sullivan, D., 1992Article
The Frankish kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987 - McKitterick, Rosamond, 1983Book
The Oxford illustrated history of the Vikings - Sawyer, Peter Hayes, 1997Book | *
The age of the Vikings - Sawyer, Peter Hayes, 1971Book
Frankish Rivalries and Norse Warriors - Searle, E., 1986Article
Predatory kinship and the creation of Norman power, 840-1066 - Searle, Eleanor, 1988Book
The Carolingian World of Dudo of Saint Quentin - Shopkow, L., 1989Article
Scandinavian Influence in Norman Literature o the Eleventh Century - van Houts, E., 1984Article
Week 9: 1000 Otto III's Pilgrimage: Ottonian Empire (28 items)
Seminar Reading (10 items)
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Read at least one of these: (4 items)
Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 2010Book | 409-22
The early Middle Ages: the birth of Europe - Olson, Lynette, 2007Book | pp. 145-55, 157-8
The inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2009Book | pp. 429-39, 444-52
Europe in the central Middle Ages 962-1154 - Brooke, Christopher, 2000Book | 223-41 (brief but very well written) *
One of these: (2 items)
The Penguin historical atlas of the medieval world - Jotischky, Andrew, Hull, Caroline Susan, 2005
Book | 32-3
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book | 46-51
And these: (4 items)
Ottonian Germany: the chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg - Thietmar, Warner, David,2000
Book | 182-6
Otto III - Althoff, Gerd, 2003Book | Chapter 4
Ottonian book illumination: an historical study - Mayr-Harting, Henry, 1999Book | Chapter 4
Otto III and the Historians - Reuter, T., 1991Article
Further Reading (18 items)
Primary Sources (2 items)
Medieval monarchy in action: the German Empire from Henry I to Henry IV - Hill, Boyd H.,1972
Book
Ottonian Germany: the chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg - Thietmar, Warner, David,2000
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Book
Secondary Sources (16 items)
Otto III - Althoff, Gerd, 2003Book | *
Medieval Germany, 500-1300: a political interpretation - Arnold, Benjamin, 1997Book
Early medieval Germany - Fleckenstein, J., 1978Book
The kingdom of Germany in the High Middle Ages (900-1200) - Gillingham, John, 1971Book
Medieval Germany and its neighbours, 900-1250 - Leyser, K J., 1982Book | Chapters 2-4 *
Communications and power in medieval Europe: the Carolingian and Ottonian Centuries -Leyser, Karl, Reuter, Timothy, 1994
Book
Ottonian Government - Leyser, K., 1981Article
Rule and conflict in an early medieval society: Ottonian Saxony - Leyser, Karl J., 1979Book
Ritual, Ceremony and Gesture: Ottonian Germany - Leyser, K.Chapter
Ottonian book illumination: an historical study - Mayr-Harting, Henry, 1999Book
Continuity and Innovation in Tenth-Century Ottonian Culture - McKitterick, R.Chapter
Ottonian Intellectual Culture - McKitterick, R., 1993Article
The Ottonians as Kings and Emperors - Muller-Mertens, E.Chapter
The Making of England and Germany, 850-1050: Points of Comparison and Difference -Reuter, T.
Chapter
Germany in the early middle ages, c. 800-1056 - Reuter, Timothy, 1991Book | 115-180. Chapters 5-6
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Ideals and Actions in the Reign of Otto III - Warner, D.A., 1999Article
Week 10: 1066 Battle of Hastings: Norman Expansion (44 items)
Seminar Reading (6 items)
Read (1 items)
Europe in the central Middle Ages 962-1154 - Brooke, Christopher, 2000Book | ch 15
Read at least one of these: (3 items)
The Penguin historical atlas of the medieval world - Jotischky, Andrew, Hull, Caroline Susan, 2005
Book | 46-7
Atlas of medieval Europe - MacKay, Angus, Ditchburn, David, 1997Book | 55-56
The new Penguin atlas of medieval history - McEvedy, Colin, 1992Book
and these: (2 items)
Towards an Interpretation of the Bayeux Tapestry - Cowdrey, H.E.J., 1988Article
The struggle for mastery: Britain, 1066-1284 - Carpenter, David, 2004Book | Chapter 3
Further Reading (38 items)
Primary Sources (5 items)
The Bayeux Tapestry: monument to a Norman triumph - Grape, Wolfgang, 1994Book
The Normans in Europe - Houts, Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van, 2000Book | 1-5 *
La tapisserie de Bayeux - Musset, Lucien, 2002Book
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The Bayeux tapestry: the complete tapestry in colour - Wilson, David M., 1985Book | *
Hastings 1066 WebsiteWebpage
Secondary Sources (21 items)
Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest - Barlow, F.Chapter
William the Conqueror - Bates, David, 2001Book
The Battle of Hastings - Brown, R.A., 1981Article | Not available from library - refer to lecturer *
The Normans and the Norman Conquest - Brown, Reginald Allen, 1985Book | *
The Anglo-Saxons - Campbell, James, John, Eric, Wormald, Patrick, 1982Book | *
The struggle for mastery: Britain, 1066-1284 - Carpenter, David, 2004Book | *
England and its rulers, 1066-1272 - Clanchy, M. T., 1998Book | Chapter 2
Conquest and colonisation: the Normans in Britain, 1066-1100 - Golding, Brian, 2001Book | *
A companion to the Anglo-Norman world - Harper-Bill, Christopher, van Houts, Elizabeth,2002
Book | esp ch 3
The death of Anglo-Saxon England - Higham, Nick, 1997Book | especially chapters 3 and 4
The Norman conquest - Higham, N. J., 1998Book
The End of Anglo-Saxon England - John, E.Chapter | ch 9
The Blackwell encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England - Lapidge, Michael, Blair, John,Keynes, Simon, Scragg, Donald G., 1998
Book | entries of Bayeux Tapestry, Edward the Confessor, Hastings, Harold Godwinesonetc
The battle of Hastings, 1066 - Lawson, M. K., 2003
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The Battle of Hastings: sources and interpretations - Morillo, Stephen, 1996Book
Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000 -Matthew, H. C. G., Harrison, Brian Howard, British Academy, 2004
Book | William I, Mathilda, Odo of Bayeux
Unification and conquest: a political and social history of England in the tenth and eleventhcenturies - Stafford, Pauline, 1989
Book | Chapters 5 and 6 *
The Norman Conquest through European Eyes - van Houts, E.M.C., 1995Article
The Battle of Hastings - van Houts, E.M.C., 1981Article | Not available from library - refer to lecturer
The Normans in Britain - Walker, David, 1995Book
Harold: the last Anglo-Saxon king - Walker, Ian W., 1997Book
Bayeux Tapestry (12 items)
The Blinding of Harold and the Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry - Bernstein, D.J., 1983Article | Not available from library - refer to lecturer
The Authority and Interpretation of the Bayeux Tapestry - Brooks, N.P., 1983Article | Not available from library - refer to lecturer
The Bayeux Tapestry: embroidering the facts of history : proceedings of the CerisyColloquium (1999) - Bouet, Pierre, Levy, B. J., Neveux,Francois, 2004
Book | especially contributions from Bouet, English and Flint *
The Bayeux Tapestry: History or Propaganda? - Brown, S.A.Chapter
The Borders of the Bayeux tapestry - Hicks, C.Chapter
The Bayeux tapestry: the life story of a masterpiece - Hicks, Carola, 2006Book | *
The study of the Bayeux tapestry - Richard Gameson, 1997Book | especially pp. ix-xiii, essays by Cowdrey, Gameson *
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Observations on a Scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, the Battle of Hastings and the MilitarySystem of the Late Anglo-Saxon State - Lawson, M.K.
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The Bayeux Tapestry: Invisible Seams and Visible Boundaries - Owen-Crocker, G.R., 2002Article
Squawk Talk:Commentary by Birds in the Bayeux Tapestry? - Owen-Crocker, G.R., 2005Article
The Bayeux tapestry: a comprehensve survey - Stenton, Frank Merry, [1965]Book | especially chapter 2 *
Kingship and Death in the Bayeux Tapestry - Thompson, V., 1999Article
Ottonian Germany: the chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg - Thietmar, Warner, David,2000
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Otto III - Althoff, Gerd, 2003Book
The fall of the Western Roman Empire: an archaeological and historical perspective - NeilChristie, 2011
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Strategies of distinction: the construction of ethnic communities, 300-800 - 1998Book
Ecclesiastical history of the English people: with Bede's letter to Egbert and Cuthbert'sletter on the death of Bede - Leo Sherley-Price, R. E. Latham, David Hugh Farmer, Bede,1990
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St. Augustine and the conversion of England - Richard Gameson, 1999Book
The coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England - Henry Mayr-Harting, 1991Book
The Arab conquest of Spain, 710-797 - Roger Collins, 1989Book
Early medieval Spain: unity in diversity, 400-1000 - Roger Collins, 1995Book
The great Arab conquests: how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in - HughKennedy, 2008, c2007
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Two lives of Charlemagne - David Ganz, Einhard, Notker, c2008Book
Charlemagne - Roger Collins, 1998Book
Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard - Paul Edward Dutton, 1998Book
Charlemagne: the formation of a European identity - Rosamond McKitterick, 2008Book
Charlemagne: empire and society - Joanna Story, 2005Book
The Carolingian world - Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Simon MacLean, 2011Book
Otto III - Gerd Althoff, 2003Book
The struggle for mastery: Britain, 1066-1284 - David Carpenter, 2004Book
Conquest and colonisation: the Normans in Britain, 1066-1100 - Brian Golding, 2001Book
Sacred fictions of medieval France: narrative theology in the lives of Christ and the Virgin,1150-1500 - Maureen Barry McCann Boulton, 2015
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