Fordham University

MVGA 5039-001, Fall 2006

Class Outline

EBooks are available online through the library

ERes selections are available through the online reserve under the course number and instructors’ names

Weeks 1-2: Approaching and Interpreting Late Antiquity

30 August: Gibbon and Brown

Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chaps. 15: “Progress of the Christian Religion,” 237-275, 16: “Conduct toward the Christians from Nero to Constantine,” 276-316, 21: “Persecution of Heresy, State of the Church,” 401-424, and 37: “Conversion of the Barbarians to Christianity,” 643-658 [EBook];

Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity (1971) [DG77 .B745—reserve];

Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom (2^nd ed.), 1-34 [BR162.3 .B76 2003—ERes].

6 September—GSAS follows Monday schedule—No class

13 September: Alternatives/Critiques of Brown

P. Garnsey and C. Humfress, The Evolution of the Late Antique World [DG272.G37 2001—reserve];

B. Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome [DG311 .W37 2005—reserve].

Source: Orosius, The Seven Books of History against the Pagans, books 1 and 7 (Deferrari, The Fathers of the Church, vol. 50, pp. 3-43, 283-364 [BR60 .F307—reserve for pp. 3-43; ERes for pp. 283-364])

Weeks 3-6: Economy and Society

20 September: Being Roman, being Rich in the Fourth Century

Brown, Power and Persuasion, 3-61 [DG311 .B76 1992—reserve];

Matthews, Western Aristocracies and the Imperial Court (1975), 1-55 [DG319 .M37—ERes];

Ellis, “How did the Late Roman aristocratic appear to his guests” in Roman Art in the Private Sphere, 117-134 [ERes];

Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour and Aristocratc Dominance, 39-88 [DG105 .B36 2001—ERes].

Sources: Relationes of Symmachus, 6, 8, 14, 18; 29 (Prefect and Emperor, pp. 56-57; 60-63; 86-89; 98-99; 162-163 [PA6704.S7 R2 1973—ERes]; Letters of Ausonius, Ep. 1-12 (Loeb, Ausonius, vol. 2, pp. 2-41 [PA6221 .A2 1919—ERes]); Ammianus Marcellinus on Roman aristocrats: [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ammianus-history14.html]

27 September: The Economy: Pirenne and Beyond

Hodges and Whitehouse, Mohammed and Charlemagne [D116.7.P57 H6 1983—reserve];

McCormick, The Origins of the Medieval Economy, 64-119 [HF3495 .M333 2001—ERes];

Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages, 259-302, 519-588 [D121 .W53 2005—ERes].

4 October: Cities

W. Liebescheutz, The Decline and Fall of the Ancient City, 1-30, 74-103, 369-416 [DG70.A1 L54 2001—ERes];

Brogiolo, “Ideas of the Town in Italy,” in The Idea and Ideal of the Town, 99-126 [HT115 .I34 1999—ERes];

Ward-Perkins, “Continuists, catastrophists and the towns of post-Roman northern Italy.” Papers of the British School at Rome 1997, 65: 157-176 [ERes].

Sources: Rutilius Namatianus; De reditu suo (Loeb, Minor Latin Poets, pp. 753-803 [PA6156 .A2 1935—ERes]); Procopius on sack of Rome [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/410alaric.html]; Theodosian Code, book 15.1 (Pharr, The Theodosian Code, 423-430 [+ K437.T4 P4 1969—ERes])

11 October: Countryside

N. Christie, Landscapes of Change, pp. 1-37 [GF90 .L383 2004—ERes];

Ripoll and Arce, “The Transformation and End of the Roman Villae in the West (Fourth-Seventh Centuries: Problems and Perspectives),” in Towns and Their Territories, pp. 63-114 [ERes];

Lewit, “Vanishing Villas,” JRA 2003, pp. 260-274/Bowes and Gutteridge, “Rethinking the Late Antique Countryside,” JRA 2005, pp. 405-418 [D1 .J68—ERes].

Sources: Sidonius Apollinaris: Carm. 22 on the villa of Pontius Leontius (Loeb vol. 1, pp. 258-283 [PA6156 .S58—ERes); Mola di Monte Gelato site report from Potter and King, Excavations at Mola di Monte Gelato, 1997, pp. 45-77 [ERes].

Weeks 7-9: Rhetoric and Empire

18 October: Auctoritas: The Emperor and his Image

C. Kelly, “Empire Building,” in Interpreting Late Antiquity, 170-195 [DE3 .I6 2001—ERes];

S. McCormack, Art and Ceremony (1981) 1-14; 161-221 [EBook].

Sources: Latin Panegyric 11 (In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, pp. 81-103 [PA6138.O8 M92 1994—ERes]); Eusebius, Life of Constantine, 1, 4 (ed. Cameron and Hall, pp. 67-94, 153-182 [BR64.350 .V41 1999—ERes]); Ammianus Marcellinus 16.10 (on the adventus of Constantius II) (Loeb, Ammianus Marcellinus, vol. 1, pp. 242-255 [PA6156 .A6 1935—ERes]).

25 October: Auctoritas: The Christian Bishop, Ambrose and Augustine

Brown, Augustine of Hippo (second edition), 178-379 (Parts III and IV) [BR65.729 B75 2000—ERes for pp. 178-279, and reserve for 280-379];

Brown lecture on Augustine’s new letters [http://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/reflections_volume_4/brown.htm];

McLynn, Ambrose of Milan, 53-78, 158-360 [BR65.638 .M25 1994—ERes for pp. 53-78, 158-219; reserve for pp. 220-360]

Sources: Ambrose, De officiis, 1-2 [http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-10/TOC.htm];

Augustine, Confessions, 1-10 [http://www.stoa.org/hippo/frame_entry.html]; Augustine, Ep.*20 (Eno, Saint Augustine: Letters, vol. 6 (1*-29*), 131-149 [BR60 .F3A8, v. 13A—ERes])

Weeks 9-10: Towards a Christian World

1 November: Pagans and Christians in Fourth and Fifth Century Rome

Macmullen, Christianity and Paganism, Fourth through Eighth Centuries, 1-73, 103-160 [BR170 .M23 1997—reserve];

Salzman, On Roman Time, 3-5,193-231 [CE46 .S25 1990—ERes];

Cameron, “The last pagans of Rome,” in The Transformations of the URBS ROMA in Late Antiquity, 109-121 [+ DG78 .T8 1999—ERes];

Sources: Altar of Victory debate (Ambrose and Symmachus) [http://www29.homepage.villanova.edu/christopher.haas/symm-ambr.htm]; Theodosian Code (excerpts): 16.10 (Pharr, The Theodosian Code, 472-476 [+ K437.T4 P4 1969—ERes).

8 November: The Desert and the Holy Man

Brown, Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, 210-338 [EBook];

Brown, “Rise and Function of the Holy Man;” Journal of Roman Studies, 61 (1971), 80-101 [online journals];

Cameron, “On Defining the Holy Man,” in J Howard-Johnston, A. Hayward, The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity, 27-43 [BX4662 .C85 1999—ERes];

Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism [BQX6813 .D86 2000—reserve].

Sources: Life of Antony [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vita-antony.html]; Life of Simeon Stylites [Eres] Rule of Benedict [http://www.kansasmonks.org/RuleOfStBenedict.html]

Weeks 11-12: People and Identity

15 November: The Fall of the Roman Empire

Amory, People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 1-85, 236-320 (introduction, chaps. 1-2, 7-8, conclusion) [DG504 .A56 1997—reserve for pp. 1-85, and ERes for 236-320].

Sources: Cassiodorus, Variae [PA6271.C4 V41 1992—reserve]; Jordanes, History of the Goths [http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html]

22 November—Thanksgiving—No class

29 November: Ethnogenesis

A. Gillett, “Ethnogenesis: A Contested Model of Early Medieval Europe,” History Compass 4 (March 2006) 241-260 [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00311.x];

W. Goffart, “Does the Distant Past Impinge on the Invasion Age Germans?” in On Barbarian Identity, 21-37 [D121 .O6 2002—ERes];

P. Geary, The Myth of Nations [D135 .G43 2002—reserve].

Weeks 13-15: The Uses of the Past

6 December: Procopius [presentations]
A. Cameron, Procopius and the Sixth Century, 3-18 and 49-66 (chaps. 1: “Procopius: the Problem,” and 4: “Procopius and the Secret History”) [DF505.7.P68 C3 1985—ERes];

A. Cameron, Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire [BR67 .C26 1991—reserve].

***Source: Procopius, Secret History [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/procop-anec.html]

13 December: Gregory of Tours

M. Heinzelmann, Gregory of Tours, 1-6, 94-209 (Introduction, chap. 3: “Ten Books of History: genre, structure and plan,” chap. 4: “Gregory’s ecclesia Dei: the eschatological church and the concept of society,” and conclusion) [DC69.8.G7 H4513 2001—reserve for pp. 1-6, 94-152, 205-209; ERes for pp. 153-204].

Sources: Gregory of Tours, History [abridged version: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html]; Gregory of Tours, Glory of the Confessors [BX4654 .G75 1988—reserve].

20 December: submit papers (2 copies) to Medieval Studies office by 5 pm