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The High Middle Ages

Part I

Professor Philip Daileader

T HE T EACHING C OMPANY ®

Philip Daileader, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History, College of William and Mary

Philip Daileader received his B.A. in history from Johns Hopkins University (1990), where he was graduated Phi

Beta Kappa, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1991 and 1996, respectively. While a

graduate student, he was a four-time winner of the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. His

research focuses on the social, cultural, and religious history of Mediterranean Europe. His first book, a case study

of medieval urban society, is entitled True Citizens: Violence, Memory, and Identity in the Medieval Community of

Perpignan, 1162–1397 (E.J. Brill Academic Publishers, 2000). His published articles include “The Vanishing

Consulates of Catalonia,” Speculum 74 (1999): 65–94, and “One Will, One Voice, and Equal Love: Papal Elections

and the Liber Pontificalis in the Early Middle Ages,” Archivum Historiae Pontificiae 31 (1993): 11–31. His current

research project, entitled “Water on the Fires of Hell,” is a study of the eleventh-century hermit and reformer Peter

Damian.

Table of Contents

The High Middle Ages

Part I

Professor Biography ............................................................................................i

Course Scope .......................................................................................................1

Lecture One Why the Middle Ages? ..............................................2

Lecture Two Demography and the Commercial Revolution ..........4

Lecture Three Those Who Fought: The Nobles................................6

Lecture Four The Chivalric Code....................................................8

Lecture Five Feudalism.................................................................10

Lecture Six Those Who Worked: The Peasants..........................13

Lecture Seven Those Who Worked: The Townspeople ..................16

Lecture Eight Women in Medieval Society ...................................19

Lecture Nine Those Who Prayed: The Monks ..............................21

Lecture Ten Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan

Movement ................................................................23

Lecture Eleven Heretics and Heresy.................................................25

Lecture Twelve The Medieval Inquisitions .......................................27

Timeline .............................................................................................................30

Glossary .............................................................................................................32

Biographical Notes ............................................................................................33

Bibliography ......................................................................................................35

The High Middle Ages

Scope:

This course of twenty-four lectures will examine the history of a period known as the High Middle Ages. During the

three centuries under consideration here, Europe ceased to be an economically underdeveloped, intellectually

derivative, and geopolitically passive part of the world. Instead, a newly invigorated medieval society experienced a

revival of urban life; it witnessed the birth of new philosophical movements and educational institutions; and it

expanded at the expense of neighbors who traditionally had expanded at Europe’s expense. We will examine how

and why Europe experienced this reversal of fortune and analyze the social, intellectual, religious, and political

transformations that, taken together, constituted the flowering of medieval civilization. In addition, we will also

study the very concept of “the Middle Ages” to understand how the period came to be so designated.

The lectures fall into three groups. The first eight lectures treat medieval society: the warrior aristocracy of knights,

castellans, counts, and dukes; the free and unfree peasants whose work in the fields made the existence of medieval

society possible; and the townspeople, both artisans and merchants, who represented the newest arrivals on the

medieval scene. Lectures Nine through Sixteen examine the intellectual and religious history of high medieval

Europe. We will study monks and the monastic life; charismatic preachers, such as Francis of Assisi; and

theologians, such as Thomas Aquinas. Attention will also be paid to those who found themselves outside the

religious mainstream, especially the heretics and Jews of high medieval Europe. The final eight lectures discuss the

major political developments and events between 1000 and 1300, including the First Crusade, the Norman Conquest

of England, and the granting of Magna Carta.

The general educational level of this material is intermediate. Each lecture could easily be expanded into a dozen;

many other issues and geographical areas could be substituted for the ones that we will explore. Nonetheless, by

examining one subperiod in the Middle Ages, we will be able to delve into our topics and problems with a

reasonably high degree of specificity—and certainly with more specificity than is possible in the broadest of survey

courses. I hope that this course will make students familiar with the major figures and developments of the High

Middle Ages and that students will gain an understanding of the connections among the social, religious, and

political phenomena of this period. Most important, I hope that by the end of this course, students will share my

own desire to know and understand more about the Middle Ages and that such students will use this course as a

springboard from which to launch their own investigations into medieval history.

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