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Week 1: Introduction to the German Empire and the Medieval Papacy(50 items)
Questions to the think about while doing your reading:
1. What were the main causes of friction between Empire and Papacy during the CentralMiddle Ages?
2. How and why did popes and emperors both claim temporal power in the Central MiddleAges?
3. How and why did popes and emperors both claim spiritual power in the Central MiddleAges?
4. How did both popes and emperors try to assert power and authority in the CentralMiddle Ages?
Primary Sources (4 items)
Corpus iuris canonici - Aemilius Ludwig Richter, Emil Friedberg, Catholic Church,1879-1881
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Councils & synods: with other documents relating to the English Church. Vol.1 - DorothyWhitelock, M. Brett, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke, 1981
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Councils & synods: with other documents relating to the English Church vol. 2 - F. M.Powicke, C. R. Cheney, 1964
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Decrees of the ecumenical councils - Norman P. Tanner, 1990Book | Essential
Secondary Literature (45 items)
Medieval Germany, 500-1300: a political interpretation - Benjamin Arnold, 1997Book
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The two cities: medieval Europe, 1050-1320 - Malcolm Barber, 2004Book
The Medieval papacy - Geoffrey Barraclough, 1968Book
The medieval reformation - Brenda Bolton, 1983Book
Rome before avignon - Robert Brentano, 1974Book
Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome - Robert Brentano,American Council of Learned Societies, 1990
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Medieval canon law - James A. Brundage, 1995Book
Medieval canon law and the crusader - James A. Brundage, 1969Book
The crusades, holy war, and canon law - James A. Brundage, 1991Book
Medieval texts and studies - C.R. Cheney, 1973Book
Medieval law teachers and writers, civilian and canonist - J.A. Clarence Smith, 1975Book
The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church - F.L. Cross, E.A. Livingstone, 1997Book
Christendom and its discontents: exclusion, persecution, and rebellion, 1000-1500 - ScottL. Waugh, Peter D. Diehl, 1996
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Canon law in medieval England: the Becket dispute and decretal collections - CharlesDuggan, Mar.1982
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Law and theology in the Middle Ages - G.R. Evans, 2002Book
Medieval ecclesiastical studies: in honour of Dorothy M. Owen - Dorothy M. Owen, M.J.Franklin, Christopher Harper-Bill, Brian R. Kemp, Ralph A. Houlbrooke, 1995
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Bishops and reform: 1215-1272 with special reference to the Lateran Council of 1215 -Marion Gibbs, Jane Lang, 1934
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Religion in the medieval west - Bernard Hamilton, 2003Book
History of the councils of the church vol. 1 - C.J. Hefele, 1894Book
History of the councils of the church vol. 2 - C.J. Hefele, 1896Book
History of the councils of the church vol. 3 - C.J. Hefele, 1883Book
History of the councils of the church vol. 4 - C.J. Hefele, 1895Book
History of the councils of the church vol. 5 - C.J. Hefele, 1896Book
The Penguin history of medieval Europe - Maurice Keen, 1991Book
The medieval world - Peter Linehan, Janet L. Nelson, 2003Book
The vox Dei: communication in the Middle Ages - Sophia Menache, 1990Book
The formation of a persecuting society: authority and deviance in Western Europe,950-1250 - R.I. Moore, 2007
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The papal monarchy: the western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, 1989Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The papal monarchy: the Western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1989
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Popes, lawyers, and infidels: the Church and the non-Christian world, 1250-1550 - JamesMuldoon, 1979
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Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages - David Nirenberg,1996
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Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages - David Nirenberg,American Council of Learned Societies, c1996
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The lands of St Peter: the Papal State in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance - PeterPartner, 1972
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Pope and bishops: the papal monarchy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries - KennethPennington, 1984
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Limits of thought and power in medieval Europe - Edward Peters, 2001Book
The papacy 1073-1198: continuity and innovation - I.S. Robinson, 1990Book
Papal government and England during the pontificate of Honorius III (1216-1227) - Jane E.Sayers, 1984
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Religion and devotion in Europe, c. 1215- c. 1515 - R.N. Swanson, c1995Book
The Western church in the Middle Ages - John A.F. Thomson, 1998Book
Origins of papal infallibility, 1150-1350: a study on the concepts of infallibility, sovereigntyand tradition in the Middle Ages - Brian Tierney, 1972
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A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2003Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2003Book
Law and politics in the middle ages - Walter Ullmann, 1975Book
The growth of papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, 1965
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The growth of Papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, American Council of Learned Societies, 1962
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Week 2: The Medieval Papacy in Italy, the Papal States and theNormans (42 items)
Questions to think about while doing your reading:
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1. Why did the medieval papacy need a power base in Central Italy?
3. How did popes use the 'Donation of Constantine' and the 'Donation of Pepin' to justifytheir holding of territories in the south of Italy?
2. Why did the papacy need the support of the Normans in the eleventh and twelfthcenturies?
4. Did the Normans do more to help or to hinder the medieval papacy?
Primary Sources (1 items)
The crisis of church and state 1050-1300 - Brian Tierney, 1964Book | Essential
Secondary Literature (40 items)
Frederick II: a medieval emperor - David Abulafia, 1992Book
Italy, Sicily and the Mediterranean, 1100-1400 - David Abulafia, 1987Book
Two Italies: economic relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the NorthernCommunes - David Abulafia, 1977
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Medieval papacy in action - Marshall Whithed Baldwin, 1940Book
Papal provisions: aspects of church history, constitutional, legal and administrative in thelater Middle Ages - Geoffrey Barraclough, 1935
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The Medieval papacy - Geoffrey Barraclough, 1968Book
Rome before avignon - Robert Brentano, 1974Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome - Robert Brentano,American Council of Learned Societies, 1990
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Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century - Robert Brentano, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1968
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Saints & sinners: a history of the Popes - Eamon Duffy, 2014Book | Previous [1996] edition also in Library
Bishops and reform: 1215-1272 with special reference to the Lateran Council of 1215 -Marion Gibbs, Jane Lang, 1934
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The Spanish church and the Papacy in the thirteenth century - Peter Linehan, 1971Book
The Spanish church and the Papacy in the thirteenth century - Peter Linehan, 1971Book
The Norman kingdom of Sicily - Donald Matthew, 1992Book
Pope Innocent III and his world - John C Moore, Brenda Bolton, 1999Book
The papal monarchy: the western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, 1989Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The papal monarchy: the Western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1989
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The lands of St Peter: the Papal State in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance - PeterPartner, 1972
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Pope and bishops: the papal monarchy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries - KennethPennington, 1984
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The papacy 1073-1198: continuity and innovation - I.S. Robinson, 1990Book
‘Hadrian IV, the Byzantine Empire and the Latin Orient’ - J. G. Rowe, 1969Article
Innocent III: leader of Europe, 1198-1216 - Jane E. Sayers, 1993Book
Papal government and England during the pontificate of Honorius III (1216-1227) - Jane E.Sayers, 1984
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The Financial and Administrative Organization of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily: Viator: Vol16, No - H. Takayama, 1985
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The administration of the Norman kingdom of Sicily - Hiroshi Takayama, 1993Book
The Western church in the Middle Ages - John A.F. Thomson, 1998Book
Authority and power: studies on medieval law and government presented to WalterUllmann on his seventieth birthday - Walter Ullmann, Brian Tierney, Peter Linehan, 1980
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Church law and constitutional thought in the Middle Ages - Brian Tierney, 1979Book
Origins of papal infallibility, 1150-1350: a study on the concepts of infallibility, sovereigntyand tradition in the Middle Ages - Brian Tierney, 1972
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Rights, laws and infallibility in medieval thought - Brian Tierney, 1997Book
Pope Innocent III - Helene Tillmann, 1980Book
A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2003Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2003Book
The papacy and political ideas in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 1976Book
The growth of papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, 1965
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The growth of Papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, American Council of Learned Societies, 1962
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The Papal State in the thirteenth century - Daniel Philip Waley, 1961Book
The theory of papal monarchy in the thirteenth century: the contribution of the canonists -John Anthony Watt, 1965
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Latin monasticism in Norman Sicily - L.T. White, 1938Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
Latin monasticism in Norman Sicily - Lynn Townsend White, American Council of Learned
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Societies, 1938Book
Week 3: The Papacy and the Empire in the Eleventh Century (30 items)
Questions to think about while doing your reading:
1. In what ways did the Church need reforming in the eleventh century?
2. Why did Leo IX believe the Church needed urgent reform?
3. How did the papacy attempt to reform the Church in the eleventh century?
4. How surprising is the role played by the eleventh- and twelfth-century papacy inmovements for the reform of the Church?
Primary Sources (5 items)
Imperial lives and letters. . 11th century - Theodor Mommsen, 1962Book | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below
Imperial lives and letters in the eleventh century: translated by Theodor E. Mommsen andKarl F. Morrison ; with an historical introduction by Karl F. Morrison ; edited by Robert L.Benson - Theodor Ernst Mommsen, Karl Frederick Morrison, Robert Louis Benson, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1962
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The crisis of church and state 1050-1300 - Brian Tierney, 1964Book | Essential
The papal reform of the eleventh century: lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII - I.S.Robinson, 2004
Book | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The papal reform of the eleventh century: lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII - IanRobinson, 2004
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Secondary Literature (24 items)
Count and bishop in medieval Germany: a study of regional power, 1100-1350 - BenjaminArnold, 1992
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German knighthood, 1050-1300 - Benjamin Arnold, 1985Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
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German knighthood 1050-1300 - Benjamin Arnold, American Council of Learned Societies,1985
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Medieval Germany, 500-1300: a political interpretation - Benjamin Arnold, 1997Book
Power and property in medieval Germany: economic and social change, c.900-1300 -Benjamin Arnold, 2004
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Power and property in medieval Germany: economic and social change c.900-1300 -Benjamin Arnold, 2004
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Princes and territories in medieval Germany - Benjamin Arnold, 1991Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
Princes and territories in medieval Germany - Benjamin Arnold, American Council ofLearned Societies, 1991
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Popes, monks and crusaders - H.E.J. Cowdrey, 1984Book
The age of Abbot Desiderius: Montecassino, the papacy, and the Normans in the eleventhand early twelfth centuries - H.E.J. Cowdrey, 1983
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The Cluniacs and the Gregorian reform - H.E.J. Cowdrey, 1970Book
The Kingdom of Germany in the high middle ages (900-1200) - John Gillingham, HistoricalAssociation, 1971
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Medieval Germany, 1056-1273 - Alfred Haverkamp, 1988Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
Medieval Germany, 1056-1273 - Alfred Haverkamp, 1992Book
Conrad II, 990-1039: emperor of three kingdoms - Herwig Wolfram, Denise Adele Kaiser,2006
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State and society in the early Middle Ages: the middle Rhine valley, 400-1000 - MatthewInnes, 2000
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‘The Crisis of Medieval Germany’ - K. Leyser, 1983
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The papal monarchy: the western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, 1989Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The papal monarchy: the Western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1989
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The ‘Imperial Church System’ of the Ottonian and Salian Rulers: a Reconsideration -Timothy Reuter, 1982-7
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Germany in the early Middle Ages c. 800-1056 - Timothy Reuter, 1991Book
Henry IV of Germany - I.S. Robinson, 2000Book
The papacy 1073-1198: continuity and innovation - I.S. Robinson, 1990Book
The empire and the papacy, 918-1273 - T.F. Tout, 1906Book
Week 4: Gregory VII and the Investiture Contest (22 items)
Questions to think about while doing your reading:
1. What did both empire and papacy hope to gain from the Investiture Contest?
2. Do you agree that the papacy was the ultimate victor in the Investiture Contest?
3. What were the short- and long-term outcomes of the Investiture Contest for the papacyand for the Empire?
4. Did the character as much as the policies of Gregory VII lead to an inevitable clash withHenry IV?
Primary Sources (3 items)
The Epistolae vagantes of Pope Gregory VII - Gregorius, 1972Book | Essential
The papal reform of the eleventh century: lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII - I.S.Robinson, 2004
Book | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below
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The papal reform of the eleventh century: lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII - IanRobinson, 2004
Book | Essential
Secondary Reading (18 items)
The investiture controversy: church and monarchy from the ninth to the twelfth century -Uta-Renate Blumenthal, 1988
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‘Lay Investiture and its Relation to the Conflict of Empire and Papacy’ - Z. N. Brooke, 1966Chapter
Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085 - H. E. J. Cowdrey, 1998Book
Popes, monks and crusaders - H.E.J. Cowdrey, 1984Book
The age of Abbot Desiderius: Montecassino, the papacy, and the Normans in the eleventhand early twelfth centuries - H.E.J. Cowdrey, 1983
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The Cluniacs and the Gregorian reform - H.E.J. Cowdrey, 1970Book
Papacy and law in the Gregorian revolution: the canonistic work of Anselm of Lucca -Kathleen G. Cushing, 1998
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Papacy and law in the Gregorian revolution: the canonistic work of Anselm of Lucca -Kathleen G. Cushing, 1998
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Canon Law Aspects of the Eleventh Century Gregorian Reform Programme - J. T. Gilchrist,1962-4
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‘The Polemics of the Papal Revolution’ - K. Leyser, 1965Chapter
Authority and resistance in the Investiture Contest: the polemical literature of the lateeleventh century - I.S. Robinson, 1978
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‘Church and Papacy' - I. S. Robinson, 1988Chapter | Also available online as an ebook - see below
‘Church and Papacy' - I. S. Robinson, 1988Chapter
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Pope Gregory VII, the Princes and the Pactum 1077-1080 - I. S. Robinson, 1979Article
The papacy 1073-1198: continuity and innovation - I.S. Robinson, 1990Book
Church, state, and Christian society at the time of the investiture contest - GerdTellenbach, 1940
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Church, state and Christian society at the time of the investiture contest - GerdTellenbach, Ralph Francis Bennett, American Council of Learned Societies, 1948
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The Gregorian epoch: reformation, revolution, reaction? - Schafer Williams, 1964Book
Week 5: The Papacy and the Empire in the Twelfth Century (19 items)
Questions to think about while doing your reading:
1. Why did popes fear German imperial power in the twelfth century?
2. Did the growth of imperial and papal power in the twelfth century make conflictbetween papacy and the German empire inevitable?
3. What was the influence of Bernard of Clairvaux on the twelfth-century papacy?
4. What can we learn about the growth of papal power in the Central Middle Ages fromCanon Law, conciliar legislation and in particular the ecumenical councils Lateran III andLateran IV?
Primary Sources (2 items)
Five books on consideration: advice to a Pope - Bernard, 1976Book | Essential
The letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux - Bruno Scott James, Bernard, 1998Book | Essential
Secondary Literature (16 items)
Adrian IV, the English Pope, 1154-1159: studies and texts - Brenda Bolton, Anne Duggan,c2003
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Bernard of Clairvaux: between cult and history - Adriaan H. Bredero, 1996Book
Saints & sinners: a history of the Popes - Eamon Duffy, 2014Book | Previous [1996] edition also in Library
The mind of St. Bernard of Clairvaux - G.R. Evans, 1983Book
‘The “De Consideratione” of St. Bernard of Clairvaux and the Papacy in the Mid-TwelfthCentury: A Review of Scholarship’ - Elizabeth Kennan, 1967
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The correspondence between Peter the Venerable and Bernard of Clairvaux: a semanticand structural analysis - Gillian R. Knight, 2002
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The papal monarchy: the western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, 1989Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The papal monarchy: the Western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1989
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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: studies commemorating the eighth centenary of hiscanonization - M.Basil Pennington, 1977
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The "things of greater importance": Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia and the medievalattitude toward art - Conrad Rudolph, 1990
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A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2003Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2003Book
The growth of papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, 1965
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Saint bernard of clairvaux - W. Williams, 1935Book
The making of Gratian's Decretum - Anders Winroth, 2000Book
The making of Gratian's Decretum - Anders Winroth, 2000Book
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Week 6: Enhancement Week
Week 7: The Empire in the Age of Frederick I Barbarossa Questions (16items)
Questions to think about while doing your reading:
1. Why did popes fear Frederick I Barbarossa?
2. What were Frederick I Barbarossa's territorial ambitions in Italy?
3. Were tensions between Frederick I Barbarossa and Alexander III inevitable?
4. How were the tensions between Frederick I Barbarossa and Alexander III resolved?
Primary Sources (4 items)
Barbarossa in Italy - Thomas Carson, 1994Book
Decrees of the ecumenical councils - Norman P. Tanner, 1990Book
The crisis of church and state 1050-1300 - Brian Tierney, 1988Book
The deeds of Frederick Barbarossa - Charles Christopher Mierow, Otto, 1966Book
Secondary Literature (11 items)
Medieval Germany, 500-1300: a political interpretation - Benjamin Arnold, 1997Book
Princes and territories in medieval Germany - Benjamin Arnold, 1991Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
Princes and territories in medieval Germany - Benjamin Arnold, American Council ofLearned Societies, 1991
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Saints & sinners: a history of the Popes - Eamon Duffy, 2014Book | Previous [1996] edition also in Library
Germany under the Salian and Hohenstaufen emperors - Karl Hampe, 1973Book
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‘Frederick Barbarossa and the Hohenstaufen Polity’, - K. J. Leyser, 1988Article
‘Frederick Barbarossa, Henry II and the Hand of St. James’ - K.J. Leyser, 1982Chapter
Frederick Barbarossa: a study of medieval politics - Peter Munz, 1969Book
Frederick Barbarossa - Marcel Pacaut, 1970Book
Pope Alexander III and the Council of Tours (1163): A Study of Ecclesiastical Politics andInstitutions in the Twelfth Century - R. Sommerville, 1977
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The Italian city-republics - Daniel Waley, 1988Book
Week 8: The Papacy in the Age of Innocent III (18 items)
Questions to think about while doing your reading:
1. Did the medieval papacy reach the height of its political and temporal power with thepontificate of Innocent III?
2. How did the pontificate of Innocent III demonstrate the power of the papacy in theCentral Middle Ages?
3. Was Innocent III an idealist or an opportunist?
4. Did Innocent III have an idea of papal monarchy?
Primary Sources (3 items)
Decrees of the ecumenical councils - Norman P. Tanner, 1990Book | Essential
De miseria condicionis humane - Robert E. Lewis, Innocent, 1978Book | Essential
Selected letters of Pope Innocent III concerning England (1198 - 1216) - C.R. Cheney,Semple W. H., 1953
Book | Essential
Secondary Literature (14 items)
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Pope Innocent III and England - C.R. Cheney, 1976Book
Pope Innocent III and his world - John C Moore, Brenda Bolton, 1999Book
Saints & sinners: a history of the Popes - Eamon Duffy, 2014Book | Previous [1996] edition also in Library
Pope Innocent III (1160/61-1216): to root up and to plant - John C Moore, 2003Book
The papal monarchy: the western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, 1989Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The papal monarchy: the Western church from 1050 to 1250 - Colin Morris, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1989
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The lands of St Peter: the Papal State in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance - PeterPartner, 1972
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Innocent III: leader of Europe, 1198-1216 - Jane E. Sayers, 1993Book
Origins of papal infallibility, 1150-1350: a study on the concepts of infallibility, sovereigntyand tradition in the Middle Ages - Brian Tierney, 1972
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Pope Innocent III - Helene Tillmann, 1980Book
The growth of papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, 1965
Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The growth of Papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, American Council of Learned Societies, 1962
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The Papal State in the thirteenth century - Daniel Philip Waley, 1961Book
The theory of papal monarchy in the thirteenth century: the contribution of the canonists -John Anthony Watt, 1965
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Week 9: The Empire in the Age of Frederick II (16 items)
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Questions to think about while doing your reading:
1. Why did Innocent III fear the Hohenstaufen dynasty?
2. Why did Innocent III fear Frederick II in particular?
3. Why did Frederick II clash with the papacy?
4. 'He bit the hand that fed him'. Does this sum up Frederick II's relationship with thepapacy?
Primary Sources (3 items)
From St. Francis to Dante: translations from the chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene(1221-1288), with notes and illustrations from other medieval sources - G.G. Coulton,Salimbene, 1972
Book | Essential
Sources for history of medieval europe - Brian S. Pullan, 1966Book | Essential
The Liber Augustalis: or, Constitutions of Melfi, promulgated by the Emperor Frederick II forthe Kingdom of Sicily in 1231 - James M. Powell, Frederick, Sicily (Italy), 1971
Book | Essential
Secondary Literature (12 items)
‘Kantorowicz and Frederick II’ - D. S. H. Abulafia, 1987Chapter
Frederick II: a medieval emperor - David Abulafia, 1992Book
Studies in the history of mediaeval science - Charles Homer Haskins, 1924Book
Frederick the Second, 1194-1250 - Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz, E.O. LorimerBook
Italy in the age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216-1380 - John Larner, 1980Book
‘The Emperor Frederick II’ - K. J. Leyser, 1982Chapter
Byzantine, Norman, Swabian and later institutions in Southern Italy: collected studies -Antonio Marongiu, 1972
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Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, a life - Georgina Masson, 1957Book
Frederick II and the Church: A Revisionist View - James M. Powell, 1963Article
II. The Emperor Frederick II and the Sicilian Church - H Pybus, 01/01/1930 Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Page: 134-163
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Intellectual life at the court of Frederick II Hohenstaufen - William Tronzo, Center forAdvanced Study in the Visual Arts, 1994
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The Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen: Immutator Mundi - Thomas Curtis Van Cleve,1972
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Week 10: The Papacy and the German Empire in the ThirteenthCentury (26 items)
Questions to think about while doing your reading:
1. Did the growth of imperial and papal power in the thirteenth century make conflictbetween papacy and the German empire inevitable?
2. Were the 'political crusades' of the thirteenth century a natural extension of thecrusading ideal?
3. How important was the role of popes in organising 'political crusades' in the CentralMiddle Ages?
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4. In the thirteenth century were popes more worried about political enemies at home thanMuslim infidels in the east?
Primary Sources (2 items)
Documents on the later crusades, 1274-1580 - Norman Housley, 1996Book | Essential
The Crusades: idea and reality, 1095-1274 - Louise Riley-Smith, Jonathan Riley-Smith,1981
Book | Essential
Secondary Literature (23 items)
Medieval canon law and the crusader - James A. Brundage, 1969Book
Pope Innocent III and England - C.R. Cheney, 1976Book
The origin of the idea of crusade - Carl Erdmann, Marshall Whithed Baldwin, Walter Goffart,1977
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The origin of the idea of crusade - Carl Erdmann, American Council of Learned Societies,1977
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‘Crusades against Christians: Their Origins and Early Development’ - N. Housley, 1985Chapter
The Avignon Papacy and the Crusades, 1305-1378 - Norman Housley, 1986Book
The Italian Crusades: the Papal-Angevin Alliance and the Crusades against Christian laypowers, 1254-1343 - Norman Housley, 1982
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The later Crusades, 1274-1580: from Lyons to Alcazar - Norman Housley, 1992Book
The Spanish church and the Papacy in the thirteenth century - Peter Linehan, 1971Book
Innocent III. vol.3 - Achille Luchaire, 1906-1911Book
Preaching the Crusades: mendicant friars and the Cross in the thirteenth century -Christoph T. Maier, 1994
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Popes, lawyers, and infidels: the Church and the non-Christian world, 1250-1550 - JamesMuldoon, 1979
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Papal crusading policy: the chief instruments of papal crusading policy and crusade to theHoly Land from the final loss of Jerusalem to the fall of Acre 1244-1291 - Maureen Purcell,1975
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Crusading as an Act of Love - JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH, 1980-06Article
The Crusades: a history - Jonathan Riley-Smith, 2005Book
The first crusade and the idea of crusading - Jonathan Riley-Smith, 2009Book
The first crusaders, 1095-1131 - Jonathan Riley-Smith, 1997Book
What were the Crusades? - Jonathan Riley-Smith, 2009Book
The papacy and crusading in Europe, 1198-1245 - Rebecca Rist, 2009Book
The just war in the Middle Ages - Frederick H. Russell, 1975Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The just war in the middle ages - Frederick H. Russell, American Council of LearnedSocieties, 1975
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Fideles crucis: the papacy, the West, and the recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314 -Sylvia Schein, 1991
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Markward of Anweiler and the Sicilian regency: a study of Hohenstaufen policy in Sicilyduring the minority of Frederick II - Thomas Curtis Van Cleve, 1937
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Week 11: The Papacy in the Age of Boniface VIII (18 items)
Questions to think about while doing your reading:
1. Why did Boniface VIII clash with Philip IV the Fair of France?
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2. To what extent did Boniface VIII make claims for the papacy which had not and couldnot ever be realised?
3. Does the phrase 'victim of its own success' describe the papacy of the thirteenthcentury?
4. How helpful is the phrase 'papal monarchy' to describe the papacy in the thirteenthcentury?
Primary Sources (2 items)
Original papal documents in England and Wales from the accession of Pope Innocent III tothe death of Pope Benedict XI (1198-1304) - Jane E. Sayers, 1999
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The Templars: selected sources - Malcolm Barber, A.K. Bate, 2002Book
Secondary Literature (15 items)
The trial of the Templars - Malcolm Barber, 2006Book
Boniface VIII, 1294-1303 - T.S.R Boase, 1933Book
Rome before avignon - Robert Brentano, 1974Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome - Robert Brentano,American Council of Learned Societies, 1990
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Saints & sinners: a history of the Popes - Eamon Duffy, 2014Book | Previous [1996] edition also in Library
The lands of St Peter: the Papal State in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance - PeterPartner, 1972
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The reign of Philip the Fair - Joseph R. Strayer, 1980Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
The reign of Philip the Fair - Joseph Reese Strayer, American Council of Learned Societies,c1980
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Origins of papal infallibility, 1150-1350: a study on the concepts of infallibility, sovereigntyand tradition in the Middle Ages - Brian Tierney, 1972
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A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2003Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below
A short history of the Papacy in the Middle Ages - Walter Ullmann, 2003Book
The growth of papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, 1965
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The growth of Papal government in the Middle Ages: a study in the ideological relation ofclerical to lay power - Walter Ullmann, American Council of Learned Societies, 1962
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The Papal State in the thirteenth century - Daniel Philip Waley, 1961Book
Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII: state vs. papacy - Charles T. Wood, 1971Book
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