- Syllabus
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Syllabus
The following list contains research literature only.
Sources for analysis in class will be selected according
to the direction discussions shall take and participants fields of interest.
1. Introduction
- Marc Bloch, "Towards a Comparative History of European Societies",
Enterprise and Change, F. C. Lane ed. (1953), 489-521
2. West European Court Culture in the High Middle Ages
- Elizabeth Salter, "Courts and
Courtly Love", in: The Medieval World, David Daiches and Anthony
Thorlby eds. (London: Aldus Books, 1973), 407-444
- Joachim Bumke, Courtly Culture
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 360-413
3. Structure and Genesis: The Court as a Social Figuration
- Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process,
Vol. 2: Power and Civility (New York, 1982), ch. VIII, 66-90
- Tony Hunt, "The Emergence of the Knight in France and England 1000-1200",
Forum for Modern Language Studies 17:2 (1981), 93-114
4. Cultural Agents
Women, Clerics, Poets, and Rulers >
- Georges Duby, "Youth in Aristocratic
Society", in: The Chivalrous Society (London: Edward Arnold, 1977),
112-122
- C. Stephen Jaeger, The Origins of Courtliness:
Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals (939-1210)
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985)
- C. Stephen Jaeger, "The Courtier Bishop", Speculum 58 (1983), 291-325
- C. Stephen Jaeger, "Courtliness as Social Change", in Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe, ed. Thomas N. Bisson (Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), 287-309
- Lee Patterson, "Court Politics and the Invention of Literature" In Culture and History 1350-1500. Essays on English Communities, Identities and Writing, ed. David Aers
(New York: Harvester Press, 1991), 7-40
- Richard F. Green, Poets and Princepleasers:
Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages (Toronto,
1980)
5. The Making of Repertoires: The Court as a Cultural Laboratory
A. Models of Self and Relationships: 'Courtly Love'
- Georges Duby, "What Do We Know about Love in Twelfth-Century France?" and "On Courtly Love", in Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Polity Press,
1993), 23-35, 56-63
- Aldo Scaglione, Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)
- David Aers, "Masculine Identity in the Courtly Community: The Self Loving in Troilus and Criseyde", Community, Gender and Individual Identity, 1360-1430 (London: Routledge,
1993), 117-152
- J. F. Benton, "Clio and Venus: An Historical View of Medieval Love" In The Meaning of Courtly Love, ed. F. X. Newman (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York,
1968), 19-42
B. Models of Conduct: Courtoisie and Civility
- Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process, Vol. 1: The History of Manners, Edmund Jephcott trans. (New York, 1978)
C. Models of Consumption: Food
- Jack Goody, Cooking, Cuisine & Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980)
D. Modelling the Body
- Georges Vigarello, "The Upward Training of the Body from the Age of Chivalry to Courtly Civility", in Fragments for a History of the Human Body: Part Two, Michel Feher,
Ramona Naddaff, and Nadia Tazi eds. (New York: Zone Books, 1989), Vol. 2, 148-199
- Joaneath Spicer, "The Renaissance Elbow", in
A Cultural History of Gesture from Antiquity to the
Present Day, Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg, eds. (Oxford: Polity
Press, 1992), 84-128
6. Abbasid Court Culture: An Introduction
- G. E. von Grunebaum, Classical Islam: A History, 600-1258
(London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970), 80-113
- Adam Mez, The Renaissance of Islam,
tr. Salahuddin Khuda Bakhsh and D. S. Margoliouth. (Patna: Jubilee Printing
and Publishing House, 1937 [reprint 1979]), ch. IX: The Court, 132-146;
ch. X: The Nobility, 147-155
7. Structure and Genesis
- Hugh Kennedy, The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History (London: Croom Helm, 1981), 73-95 (al-Mansur), 96-114 (al-Mahdi and al-Hadi), 116-134 (Harun)
- Joseph Weiss, "Court Culture
and Courtly Poetry" (Preliminary Remarks on the Hebrew Poetry in Medieval
Spain) [1952] (in Hebrew)
- Michael G. Morony, Iraq after the Muslim Conquest (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 70-86
- Gaston Wiet, "L'émpire néo-byzantin des Omayyades et l'émpire néo-sassanide des Abbasides", Cahiers d'histoire mondiale 1 (1953-1954),
63-71
- George Dimitri Sawa, Music Performance in the Early `Abbasid Era 132-320 AH / 750-932 AD (Toronto: Pontifical Institue of Medieval Studies, 1989), 111-128
8. Cultural Agents
- Anwar G. Chejne, "The Boon Companion
in Early `Abbasid Times." Journal of the American Oriental Society
85 (1965), 327-335
- Mohammed Farid Ghazi, "Un groupe
social: 'les raffinés' (zurafa')." Studia Islamica 9
(1957), 39-71
- Jammal Eddine Bencheikh, "Le
cénacle poétique du calife al-Mutawakkil", Bulletin
d'études orientales 29 (1977), 33-52
- Jammal Eddine Bencheikh, "Les
secrétaires poètes et animateurs de cénacles aux IIe
et IIIe de l'Hegire", Journal Asiatique 263 (175), 263-315
- Jammal Eddine Bencheikh, "Les
musiciens et la poésie: L'école d'Ishaq al-Mawsili (m. 225
H.) et d'Ibrahim Ibn al-Mahdi (m. 224 H.)", Arabica 22 (1975)
- George Dimitri Sawa, "The Status
and Roles of the Secular Musicians in the Kit_b al-Agh_n& (Book
of Songs) of Abu l-Faraj al-Isbahani" (d. 356 AH/967 AD), Asian
Music 17:1 (1985), 70-75
- Hilary Kilpatrick, "Women as
Poets and Chattels. Abu l-Farag al-Isbahani's "al-Ima' al-Saww`ir",
Quaderni di studi arabi 9 (1991), 161-176
- Abd al-Kareem Heitty, "The Contrasting
Spheres of Free Women and Jawari in the Literary Life of the Early Abbasid
Caliphate." Al-Masaq 3 (1990), 31-51
- Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam:
Historical Roots of Modern Debate (New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 1992), 79-101
- Rina Drory, "The Abbasid Construction of the Jahiliyya: Cultural Authority
in the Making." Studia Islamica 83 (1996), 33-49
- Adam Mez, The Renaissance of Islam,
ch. XII: the savant, 170-188
- Charles Pellat, Le milieu Basrien
et la formation de Gahiz (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1953)
9. The Making of Repertoires
- Julie Meisami Scott, "Mas'udi
on Love and the Fall of the Barmakids." Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society (1989), 252-277
- Joseph Sadan, "Vin -- fait de
civilisation." Studies in Memory of gaston Wiet, ed. Rosen-Ayalon
(Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1977), 129-160
- Dominique Sourdel, "Questions
de cérémonial 'abbaside", Revue des études
islamiques 28:1 (1960), 121-148
- Adam Mez, The Renaissance of Islam,
ch. XX: Manners & Morals, 353-378; ch. XXI: The Standard of Living,
379-408
- Robert A. Kaster, " 'Humanitas'
and Roman Education", Storia della storiografia 9 (1986), 5-15
Janusz Danécki, "Social Functions of Adab Literature",
in Arabische Sprache und Literatur im Wandel, ed. M. Fleischhammer
(Halle a. d. Saale, 1979), 84-91
- Jean-Claude Vadet, L'esprit courtois
en Orient dans les cinq premiers siècles de l'hégire.
(Paris: Maisonneuve, 1968)
- Muhammd Manazir Ahsan, Social Life
Under the Abbasids, 179-802 AH, 786-902 AD. (London: Longman, 1979),
ch. 2: Costume, 30-75; ch. 3: food, 76-164
Participants
- Natalie
Rothman (Culture Research Program)
- Irit
Lavidor (Culture Research Program)
- No'a
Shapira (Culture Research Program)
- Husni al-Khatib Shehada (School of
History / Medieval Studies)
- Sarit Rosenberg (School of Cultural
Studies /Arabic Language and Literature)
- Yaron
Klein (School of Cultural Studies /Arabic Language and Literature)
- Erez Na'aman (School of History /
Islamic Civilization)
- Ikbal Abdel Razek (School of Cultural
Studies / Arabic Language and Literature)
- Liora Miqdash (School of Cultural
Studies / Arabic Language and Literature)
- Shira
Ohayon (School of History)
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