History 418/518

Winter Term 1999, History 418/518	Professor Mavis Mate
Late Middle Ages	Download Word97
10:00-10:50 MWF / 248 GER	Download Text-Only
CRN: 25875/25876	Office Hours

Required Reading

	Packet [available from Bookstore]
	J. Bennett A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock
	Holt and Rosser (ed) The Medieval Town
	M. Keene English Society in the Later Middle Ages
	N. Davis The Paston Letters

Course Requirements

	1. Class participation
	2. Two papers, one due on 29^th January and the other on lst March
	3. A final examination

Course Schedule

PART A ECONOMY AND SOCIETY 1050- 1350

	4^th Jan Introduction - Economy to 1300
	6^th Jan Economy 1300-1350 Bennett 6-72: Packet - Harvey article [Introduction In Before the Black Death]
	8^th Jan Aristocratic income: Manorial accounts Bennett 28-60; Packet - Downton accounts - [Titow]
	11^th Jan Regional Variations Bennett 1-27; Packet - Toft and Croft [Astill in The Countryside of Medieval England].
	13^th Jan Modelling the peasant economy Bennett 73-113
	15^th Jan Downton peasants Packet - Downton accounts Article on Downton
	18^th Jan MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY (no class)
	20th Jan The value of court rolls Packet - Razi article AThe Toronto Schoo
	22^nd Jan Video - 2^nd Shepherds Play (Shown in IMC).
	25^th Jan Women in the Countryside Bennett 114-133
	27^th Jan The growth of towns and markets Holt and Rosser 1-19
	29^th Jan Acquisition of self-government; large v. small towns Holt and Rosser 19-70
	FIRST PAPER DUE - 29^th January, Describe the life of Downton peasants in 1324-5. Discuss their standard of living and their relationship to their lord, their fellows and their spouse.
	1^st Feb Expansion of trade and industry Holt and Rosser 71-140
	3rd Feb Private Life within the towns Packet - Hanawalt and Shaw articles

PART B POST BLACK DEATH ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

	5^th Feb The Black Death and after - 14^th century Keene 1-47
	8th Feb The fifteenth century - determining factors Keene 133-59
	10^th Feb Aristocracy at home Keene 160-87
	12^th Feb Video - The Wars of the Roses (meet IMC)
	15^th Feb Aristocratic violence Keene 187-214
	17t^h Feb Pastons - public presence Paston Letters
	19t^h Feb Pastons - family and relationships
	22nd Feb Aristocratic standards of living
	24thFeb Peasant standards of living -husbandmen Keene 48-76
	26^th Feb Peasant wage laborers
	1^st March Towns, trade and urban culture Keene 77-107; Holt and Rosser 141-59
	SECOND PAPER DUE, From the evidence of the Paston Letters how important were ties of family, kinship and Afriendship@ in fifteenth century England?
	3^rd March. London and Westminster Keene 108-30; Holt and Rosser 160-83; 238-65
	5^th March Video - The Growth of London (meet IMC)
	8^th March Women in urban life Packet - Bennett and Goldberg articles
	10^th March Urban decline I Holt and Rosser 184-216; 238-65
	12^th March Urban decline II Holt and Rosser 265-86

Final Examination - 13:00 (1 p.m.) Thursday, March 18th