Class Notes for Ancient and Medieval History at University of Washington

Lecture Notes 11 Monday, May 1, 2017 Penitents - Affiliated w Franciscans - Lived in own home, but performed many religious practices (prayer, fasting, charitable works, etc.) - Both groups… ...

Lecture Notes 13 Monday, May 8, 2017 Marriage in the high and late middle ages - Rite of passage into adulthood - Lavish prolonged feasting, sometimes tournament (if noble) - Betrothal (contractual engage...

Lecture Notes 14 Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Women and Family - Christine de Pizan and Etienne de Castel – had a completely arranged marriage, but ended up being really happy together - Montaillou ...

Lecture Notes 12 Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Hildegard of Bingen (10981179) Female mystic (visionary), German abbess, medieval writer, preacher o Wrote on theology, music, drama, natural science Grew up in Mainz; had visions ...

Lecture Notes 6 Wednesday, April 19, 2017 The setting of courtly love - Term invented by Gaston Paris in 1900s - Contemporaries call it Fin’amors (refined love) o Aristocratic o Adulterou...

Lecture Notes 9 Wednesday, April 26, 2017 Result of anxiety attempt to establish 3 orders Bellatores (fighters) Oratores (prayers) Laboratores (workers) Conservative resistance to change Heretics History o First centu...

Lecture Notes 10 Monday, May 1, 2017 Holy women in High Middle Ages - Religious orders involving women are being shut down/underattack o Concern that female communities are sources of temptation - N...

Lecture Notes 8 Monday, April 14, 2017 Church began to believe that people practiced sodomy bc they were possessed by demonic powers - Considered contagious; policing it was considered a matter of self-preservation ...

Lecture Notes 7 Monday, April 24, 2017 More Context on rise of misogyny - Rise of misogyny coincides w persecution of Jews, heretics, lepers, homosexuals (sodomites – male homosexuals), prostitutes ...

Lecture Notes 3 Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Abbesses and holy women - Few options as a woman o Enter convent or monastery o Get married and raise family - To join a monastery, must generally...

Lecture Notes 4 Monday, April 10, 2017 Saint Radegund (520-586) – holy queen married to king Lothar I (511-561) - Lothar kills Thuringian, Radegund’s uncle - Lothar is first Merovingian king - Had no chil...

Lecture Notes 2 Monday, April 3, 2017 Readings - What does female sanctity look like? Marriage and the family in the early middle ages - Late Roman and early Germanic families o Typical household ...

Lecture Notes 1 Wednesday, March 29, 2017 Weregild - fines for damages or injuries upon others Inheritance laws - hierarchy • If man dies, wealth is passed to sons • If no sons, passed to mother and father ...

Lecture Notes 5 Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11 century reform movement (Gregorian Reforms) - Led by Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) - Focused on gregarious issues - Eliminate simony o Most bishops, ...