Medieval History

OFFERED 2024-2025

  • Time and Tuition:
    • 2024-2025: Thursdays, 12:15 – 1:45 pm Eastern
    • 2024-2025
      • Seminar with writing tutorial: $80 per month (10 months, August through May)
      • Seminar only: $65 per month (10 months, August through May)
  • Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
  • Grades: 9-12 AND 8th grade strong readers
  • Prerequisites: Writing II or equivalent writing skills OR take Writing II in addition to this course
  • Pairing: You can pair this course with Medieval Literature!
  • Description: Students learn about the significance of medieval and renaissance culture. In addition to study of the histories, governments, economics, wars, arts, and customs of Medieval and Renaissance Christendom, the course examines how these eras shaped the United States and its Constitution.
  • Assessment:
    • All: Students must complete all readings and daily-work/commonplacing as well as oral exams.
    • Writing tutorial only: Each term, students compose one essay, one other written piece, and one project – choosing between an academic/artistic portfolio and a history-related handcraft. (Students in both history and literature courses only create one project per term.) In December and May, tutorial students participate in Defense Day by giving a brief presentation on one of their essays and responding to questions from the audience.
  • Books Needed: Final book list will be posted by mid-summer but will be similar to the one below – (Hard copies are required; recommended editions/translations are listed below)
    • Boethius — The Consolation of Philosophy (Recommended: Goins translation/Ignatius, ISBN: 9781586174378) <= Needed for the first week of class
    • Geoffrey of Monmouth — History of the Kings of Britain (Recommended: Thorpe translation/Penguin, ISBN: 9780140441703)
    • Einhard — Life of Charlemagne (Recommended: Ganz translation/Penguin, ISBN: 9780140455052)
    • Ramon Lull, Book of the Order of Chivalry – ‎Boydell, ISBN: 978-1843838494
    • Asser — Life of Alfred the Great (Recommended: Keynes translation/Penguin, ISBN: 9780140444094)
    • Joinville and Villehardouin — Chronicles of the Crusades (Recommended: Smith translation/Penguin, ISBN: 9780140449983)
    • Aquinas — On Law, Morality, and Politics (Recommended: Regan, 2nd ed./Hackett, ISBN: 9780872206632)
    • Froissart — Chronicles (Recommended: Brereton translation/Penguin, ISBN: 9780140442007)
    • Vasari — Lives of the Artists (Recommended: Modern Library edition, ISBN: 9780375760365)