UNIT I: (Weeks 2-4) 4th Century.

REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING ROME

Reading:

Featured text: Augustine, Confessions [I.2:1-I.3.1]

In Course Packet:

F. Yates, The Art of Memory: Chs. 1, 2 Week 3
P. Brown, The Cult of the Saints, Chs. 1-3 Week 4
in Early Christian Lives: 3 assigned items,

AND Unit One Online Readings

Week 2: Literate culture: centers, borders, disruptions

Week Two Readings

Week Two Images

Tu Jan 23: Professional success in Roman terms

Conf. 1-6

Th Jan 25: Conversion and marginality: hermits, virgins, Dido

Conf. 7-9; Life of St Antony

DSC: Significant places, faces, stories: matter for reconstruction

WR: Making memorable: a Para. each on any 2 4C writers, w. a Para of comparison.

Week 3: Memory and time as ethical, political problems

Week Three Readings

Week Three Images

F. Yates, The Art of Memory: Chs. 1, 2

Tu Jan 30: Reading against time: memory, text, and the soul

Conf. 10-13

Th Feb 1: "Egyptian spoils": Rome inside out

Jerome: Life of St Paul the Hermit; Sulpicius Severus: Life of St Martin

DSC: the self in/as history; rewriting Rome

WR: 1 Para. on each: an analogy; a reinterpreted image or event, a Para. of comparison

Week 4: Saving appearances

Week Four Readings

Week Four Images

P. Brown, The Cult of the Saints, Chs. 1-3;
Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio

Tu Feb 6: Persecution and place: martyrs & pilgrims

(quiz on persons & places encountered so far: results for section discussion)

Th Feb 8: Epistolary and visionary dialogue

DSC: meeting grounds: friendship, letters, and graveyards

WR: 1P on the reciprocal identification of 2 persons or places in dialogic relation

TRANSITIONS: REORDERING THE SIGNIFICANT WORLD

Week 5: 6th Century: looking back, looking forward, looking inward

Week Five Readings

Week Five Images

Reading:

P. Brown, The Cult of the Saints, Chs. 5, 6
J. Coleman, Ancient and Medieval Memories, Ch. 8
A. Gurevich, Medieval Popular Culture, Ch. 2
R. Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion, Chs. 1, 2, 3
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, The Barbarian West, Chs. 1, 2.

Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks: Preface; Bk I; II.1-2, 22-27; IX.5-6; X.1.

Tu Feb 13: Remapping historical significance: redefining governance

Household laws: pastoral and political rule: Jerome & Augustine on marriage; Benedict & Gregory. "Moral tales": Gregory of Tours and Lausiac history: styles of narration.

Th Feb 15: Reordering the mind: redefining the library

Cassiodorus, Boethius.

DSC: Reading gaps: expository styles and silences in 6C writers

WR: 1-Para. analysis of a characteristic stylistic move in one primary text in this week's reading.

Unit One