Schedule

I'll post an overview schedule for the course here. Obviously, this is still in progress.

Term II - Gaming the Middle Ages

Dates

Subjects

January 11, 2021

Re-Orientation and Introduction to Reacting to the Past

January 13, 2021

Introduction to the Medieval Church

January 18, 2021

Introduction to the Investiture Controversy

January 20, 2021

Game Play Begins - Pataria Mini-Game

January 25, 2021

Synod of Worms I

January 27, 2021

Synod of Woms II

February 1, 2021

Lenten Synod at Rome I

February 3, 2021

Lenten Synod at Rome II

February 8, 2021

Meeting at Trebur I

February 10, 2021

Meeting at Trebur II

February 15-19

Winter Break - No classes

February 22, 2021

Canossa

February 24, 2021

Post-Game Debrief

March 1, 2021

CHOICE: Second Crusade RTTP game or Game Design Project

March 3, 2021

TBD

March 8, 2021

TBD

March 10, 2021

TBD

March 15, 2021

TBD

March 17, 2021

TBD

March 22, 2021

TBD

March 24, 2021

TBD

March 29, 2021

TBD

March 31, 2021

TBD

April 5, 2021

TBD

April 7, 2021

TBD

April 12, 2021

TBD

Term I - Quest for the Middle Ages

Prologue (weeks 1-3)

I. Orientation (September 9)

II. When is the Middle Ages? (September 14/16)

III. Where is the Middle Ages? (September 21/23)

Fundamentals (weeks 4-6)

IV. Evidence (September 28/30)

V. Research (October 5/7)

VI. Intermission (October 14)

The Rise of the Medieval (weeks 7-13)

VII. The Myth of the Dark Ages (October 19/21)

VIII. Romanticism, Gothicism and the Novelization of the Middle Ages (November 2/4)

IX. Gothic Revival Architecture as National Style (November 9/11)

X. Nationalism and Medieval Studies in the Academy (November 16/18)

XI. Nationalism and the Medieval Film (November 23/25)

XII. The Middle Ages in the Media (November 30/December 2)

XIII. The Middle Ages in Games (December 7/9)

XIIIb. The Finale (December 11)

Term II - Evidence of the Middle Ages

I. Return to the Middle Ages

Understanding Evidence

II. Art and Architecture

  • Read: Experiencing Medieval Art

III. Archaeology

IV. Using Manuscripts

V. Reading Medieval Scripts

VI. Marginalia

VII. Using Editions and Translations

Genres

VIII. Letters

IX. Lives

X. Laws

XI. History

Epilogue

XII. The Finale

Preliminary Planning Info (ignore)

  1. Using Teams and other tools

  2. Intro.

  3. Introduce the Academy.

  4. logging in to cuPortfolio and putting together a profile.

    1. i.e. Domain of one's own

    2. (optional) You could also use HCommons if you want to take it further?

  5. What is the Middle Ages, to you? When is the Middle Ages?

    1. Defining our preconceptions

    2. Defining a timeline. Defining Time.

    3. Periodization.

    4. TimelineJS?

      1. I pre-Prepare a Timeline with major events of Global Middle Ages?

      2. Get students to put together a timeline of key events?

  6. Where is the Middle Ages? Understanding the idea of the Global Middle Ages

    1. Space as a Historical concept.

    2. Understanding Maps exercise

    3. Nation vs. natio

    4. StoryMap?

      1. Prepare StoryMap to show its versatility

      2. Allow it to show movement (MarcoPolo?, Black Death)

Fundamentals (weeks 4-5)

  1. What is Evidence? Primary Sources vs. Secondary Sources. What is Data?

    1. How do we work with sources

      1. limits on our access to sources

    2. terminology with examples of document vs. book, novel vs. monograph, edited collection, journal (and how this impacts how you can search for things on library catalogue).

    3. Why are footnotes important? Why Chicago style? What is an ISBN?

  2. What is Research? How to use library and online resources.

    1. M.R. James short story?

    2. Louise Craven's essay "From the Archivist's Cardigan to the Very Dead Sheep"

    3. A better way than google

      a. What do librarians do?

      b. How do I use online course reserves?

      c. And Maybe>? How do I book a room, get a laptop, get ILL?

      d. Book Arts Lab, Discovery Centre, ARC

    4. Writing Support at Carleton - Writing labs

Medieval Evidence (weeks 6-10)

Key Themes:

  • How different kinds of evidence give us different (and incomplete) answers

  1. Architecture & Art (comparative?)

    1. Buildings are how people "see" the Middle Ages - as tourists, etc. (But also key part of the interest in medievalism/ Gothic Revival in 19th century)

      1. Importance of architecture for setting in novel, film and video games

      2. Discussion around Assassins Quest' Notre Dame at time of 2019? fire

    2. understanding architectural schematics

      1. Plan of St. Gall vs. Victorian Architectural Diagrams?

      2. Reconstructions?

    3. sacred space in Benedictine Monasteries and Shinto Temples?

  2. Archaeology (Botony, Genomics & Black Death)

    1. medieval matters podcast (Why Bones Matter)

    2. BDeath progress.

  3. Written Sources: Medieval Manuscripts

    1. What are manuscripts

      1. focus on Bible and Glossa Ordinaria to give sense of how structured, development of finding aids, punctuation (spaces between words)

    2. collection patterns, survival rates and the such.

    3. How to read / write MS catalogue description

    4. Understanding the Codex

    5. Codicology: Supports, Writing Instruments, Inks, Binding

  4. Palaeography, Abbreviations, Punctuation

    1. Why do typical forms of writing (scripts) appear...

    2. link of unicode, questions marks, emoji

    3. transcription exercise (which leads to next week)

      1. HMML tutorials?

      2. Using ARC/CUAG Folios...

  5. Editions and Translations

    1. What is an edition

    2. What changes in a translation - compare Middle English to updated version?

    3. Annotating edition/ translation for terminology and understanding what the parts of the apparatus are.

    4. John Rhykenor (Karras article)

Genres (11-14)

Romance? covered during Palaeography/ Edition weeks?

  1. Letters:

    1. Private vs. Public letters

    2. Epistolary Rhetoric

    3. Epistolae

    4. Constable: "On Medieval Letters"

    5. fold your own medieval envelope exercise

  2. Lives:

    1. Saint Guinefort? Apophthegmata Patrum (to show didactic purpose in short extracts?) Liber Pontificis? Gesta Episcoporum?

  3. Law:

    1. Oral vs. Written Law

    2. Canon Law (on Sex)

    3. Charters

  4. History: Geoffrey of Monmouth?

    1. Cyclical nature of History

A History of History, of the Middle Ages (15-17)

Key theme: What are the rhetorical structures and argumentative uses of History

  1. The Renaissance Creation of the Dark Ages

  2. The Romantic Re-imaginings and Embrace of the Middle Ages

  3. Nationalism's use of the Medieval Past

    1. different groups of students read about German, UK and American experience (make short presentation)

Popular Representations (18-23)

  1. The Middle Ages in Fiction

    1. Sir Walter Scott

    2. Ghost Stories and Antiquarianism: M.R. James

    3. Non-Western Fantasy?

    4. Interview of Bruce Holsinger with Michael McKeon: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/historical-fiction/michael-mckeon-and-bruce-holsinger-discuss-what-it-meant-to-be-writing-wDuZK

  2. The Middle Ages in Modern Architecture

    1. Gothic Revival

  3. The Middle Ages in Film

  4. The MIddle Ages in Games

  5. The Middle Ages in the news, advertising and social media

    1. Class exercise: everyone finds a "medieval" add/ social media post

    2. Using LexusNexus?

Finale (24)

  1. Presentation of the Final Project?

In person activities (now not possible?)

  1. Make INK – decipher various medieval recipes

  2. ARC Trip – Folios and Mss

  3. Media and Supports

  4. Pricking and ruling

  5. Calligraphy (x2)

  6. Illumination (x2)

  7. Binding (x2) Collation

  8. Ms. description

  9. Editions (x4)

    a. Wood cuts?

    b. Typeset a page of a medieval text

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