Syllabus
Speculum Musicae: The Mirror of Music
IDST-1300-09 (Focus: Fine Arts)

 Instructor: Dr. Lynn Raley raleyhl@millsaps.edu
Phone: Ext. 1423
Meeting time: TuTh 2:45 pm
Location: AC 152

REQUIRED TEXTS

Bishop, Morris. The Middle Ages (Houghton Mifflin, 1968)
Fiero. The Humanistic Tradition, Book 2: Medieval Europe and the World Beyond - 5th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2006)
NetJuke, the campus listening site (password required) will be your source for music of the Middle Ages.

INTERNET LINKS: PRIMARY SOURCES, ART & ARCHITECTURE

Canterbury Tales: http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm
The Decameron: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml
The Song of Roland: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Roland/
Medieval Cathedrals: http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/cathedral.html
Art History: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

FOR FURTHER READING: Course Bibliography

Armstrong, Karen. A History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Ballantine, 1983)
Armstrong, Karen. Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World (Anchor Books, 1988, with a new Preface, 2001)
Cantor, Norman F. The Civilization of the Middle Ages (Harper Collins, 1963)
Cantor, Norman F. In the Wake of the Plague (New York: Perennial Books, 2001)
Le Goff, Jacques. The Medieval Imagination (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988)
Ross, James Bruce and Mary Martin McLaughlin, eds. The Portable Medieval Reader
Seay, Albert. Music in the Medieval World (Prentice-Hall, 1991)
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, theses, and dissertations, 6th ed. (Univ. of Chicago, 1996)