HISTORY 4370 001
(CRN: 49411)
Holden Hall 152 on MWF at 9:00
am
TEACHER
John Howe
Office in Holden Hall 143
Office Hours:
Tu 8:30-10:00; W 10-11 and 12-1:00; and by appointment
Home Address: 3109 25th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79410-2134
Telephone:; 806 742-3744 (History Dept.); or 806 834-7544 (office);
or 806 438-1321 (Home)
E-Mail: john.howe@ttu.edu;
fax: 806-742-1060; web: http://myweb.ttu.edu/jhowe
To survey the development of the
City of Rome, ab urbe condita until
today. To examine a world capital's
physical structures, ceremonial features, and cultural identity. To examine
vignettes of life in such a place. To investigate how historians and
archaeologists have acquired knowledge of Rome.
To gain contemporary self-knowledge by examining a community culturally
ancestral to but yet significantly different from our own.
Required Texts:
Den Arend, Paul.
Bernini in Rome: Gian Lorenzo Bernini and
the Baroque in Rome. Haren: Vandi Design, 2015.
Hibbert, Christopher.
Rome:
Biography of a City: 3,000 Years of Her History from the Etruscan Kings
to Mussolini. Baltimore: Penguin 2001. [Amazon]
Holloway, R. Ross.
Constantine and Rome. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2004. [Amazon]
Herzfeld, Michael.
Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring
of Modern Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Partridge, Loren.
The Renaissance in Rome.
London: Laurence King Publishing. 1996.
Wickham, Chris. Medieval Rome: Stability
and Crisis of a City, 900-1150. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Internet Ancient
History Sourcebook
(IAHS)
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
(IMS)
Internet Modern
History Sourcebook
(IMHS)
Specific reading assignments for
each class are listed in the Reading and Lecture Schedule, just ahead and to the
right of the lecture date by which they should be completed. Each assignment is
the subject of the following lecture or discussion. Read so that you arrive in
class prepared to explain, praise, criticize, and question. If read for their
assigned classes, the readings are manageable, but if neglected they quickly
become overwhelming.
Successful completion of this
course requires regular attendance. In the classroom very difficult reading
assignments are interpreted and contextualized, additional subject matter is
introduced, and visual materials are displayed (which are difficult to
comprehend from a friend’s notes). Part of the course grade is based on class
participation, and you cannot participate if you are not present.
Midterm tests are scheduled for
February 12, March 11, and April 11. Each will include multiple-choice
questions, identification
questions, a single essay (to be selected from two or more
choices), and perhaps map work. If, for good reason, a test is missed, a make-up
test may be taken at 2:00 pm on Monday, May 9, in HH282. Students receiving a grade
below “C” on a midterm should meet with the teacher to discuss it (this will be
part of the class participation grade).
The final examination will
feature multiple-choice
questions and identification
questions, on the material covered since the third midterm, as well as
several essay questions (to be chosen out of six or
more alternative questions) covering the material of the entire course. Bring
blue books for the final examination on Thursday, May 12, at 7:30 am.
Students will write a research
paper of 20-25 pages related to some aspect of the history of the City of Rome.
The topic must be approved by the instructor, approval contingent on some
significant relationship to the City of Rome and to access to the requisite primary and secondary sources.
Subject areas, topics, bibliographies, demonstrations of research
methods, and a preliminary draft will be sequentially required: a subject area
and one or more preliminary topics are due F Feb 12; a working topic and a
preliminary bibliography by F March 11; and a show-and-tell demonstration of a
data gathering system on W March 23.
Assignments submitted one class late will be penalized one letter grade;
later assignments will not be accepted.
Some version of a preliminary draft of the paper MUST be submitted on or
before Wednesday, April 20. These
will be returned on Monday April 25 and students may choose either to keep the
grade earned then or to rewrite the paper for a new grade.
NECESSARY ACCOMMODATIONS
Any student who, because of a disabling condition, may require some special
arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact the instructor
as soon as possible so that the necessary accommodations can be made.
Observance of a religious Holy Day
Texas House Bill 256
requires institutions of higher education to excuse a student from attending
classes or other required activities, including examinations, for the observance
of a religious holy day. The student shall also be excused for time necessary to
travel. An institution may not penalize the student for the absence and allows
for the student to take an exam or complete an assignment from which the student
is excused. No prior notification of the instructor is required.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
"Texas
Tech is committed to creating an exciting university atmosphere that is free of
academic dishonesty. All members of the university community, including faculty,
students, and staff, are upheld to the standard of having integrity in the work
they produce. The standard is for all members of the Texas Tech community to
contribute to the campus environment in an ethical, fun, and honest manner.
Integrity matters because student success matters."
Academic integrity violations are outlined in the Code of Student Conduct,
Part X. B3 of the Student Handbook.
Because we live in an imperfect world, it is sometimes
necessary to undergird ideals with enforcement mechanisms. Be aware that Texas
Tech mandates specific disciplinary outcomes
for academic integrity violations. See
TTU
Student Judicial Programs.
.
The course grade will be computed
as follows: 30% from the three midterm tests (that is, 10% from each); 30% from
the term paper; 10% from class participation; and 30% from the final
examination.
F Jan 22 Introductions / Great Cities / Geography
Hibbert 3-9; Servian Walls of Rome ; Maps of Ancient Rome ; Rome Map ; Romulus and Remus; The Rape of Lucretia
M Jan 25
Origins of Rome
[Tu Jan 26
Last day for student-initiated
Drop/Add]
Hibbert 9-14;
Roman "Constitution";
The Law of the Twelve Tables
W
Jan 27
Development
of the Roman Republic
Hibbert 14-16;
Livy: The Roman Way of Declaring War;
Polybius: The Battle of Cannae;
Polybius:
Legion vs. Phalanx
\
F
Jan 29
Conquest
of the Mediterranean
M Feb 1 Chaos
W Feb 3
Imperial
Rome
Hibbert 45-63;
Strabo: The
Grandeur of Rome;
Juvenal: Satire
III;
Seneca: On
Gladiatorial Games;
Colosseum
[F Feb 5
Last Day to Drop a Course
without Academic Penalty]
F Feb 5 Rome as Imperial Capital
Hibbert 64-69;
Holloway
ix-xv, 1-56
M Feb 8
Chaos and Constantine
Holloway 57-119;
Holloway 120-55
W Feb 10
Constantine's Rome
Study. Prepare a sheet of paper
that lists the proposed subject area of your paper and one or more tentative
topics.
F Feb 12
Midterm
No. 1
Hibbert 69-72; Map; Amiannus Marcellinus: On the Luxury of the Rich in Rome; Decadent Romans, Valentinian I: On Papal Power; Symmachus Damasus, Damasus Inscription
M Feb 15
Christian Rome
Hibbert 72-74;
Leo I and Attila
the Hun
W Feb 17
The "Fall" of Rome
Hibbert 75-78; Gregory the Great: On the Papal Estates; Gregory I: Manumission; Map
F Feb 19
Rome
of Gregory I
Hibbert 78-81;
Donation of
Constantine;
Map
M Feb 22
Roman
Revolution and Charlemagne
Hibbert 81-87; Wickham 1-34
W Feb 24
Post-Carolingian
Rome: An Age of Iron?
Wickham 35-180
F Feb 26
Roman Economy
Wickham 181-320
M Feb 29
Roman
Society
Wickham 321-84; Map; Veronica Ortenberg, “Archbishop Sigeric’s Journey to Rome in 990,” Anglo-Saxon England 19 (1990): 197–246
W Mar 2
Roman
Geography
Wickham 384-457; Hibbert 87-92
F Mar 4
The
Roman Reforming Party and Senate Take Charge
Hibbert 92-94
M Mar 7 Twelfth-Century Rome
Hibbert 92-96
W Mar 9
Thirteenth-Century
Rome
Study
and prepare a sheet of paper headed by your
working research topic, followed by a preliminary bibliography that includes some of the major relevant primary
and secondary sources
F Mar 11 Midterm #2
Hibbert 96-112
[Mar 12- 20 Spring Break]
M Mar 21 Rome and Avignon
Hibbert 113-23; Partridge
6-78; Prepare a "show and tell" demonstration of your system for gathering and
organizing research data
W Mar 23
Class Report on Research
Progress and Data Gathering System
Partridge 61-107;
Chiesa S. Maria
sopra Minerva;
Lorenzo de
Medici’s advice to a 14-year-old cardinal;
San Pietro;
F Mar 25
Renaissance Rebuilding
[M Mar 28 Easter Holiday]
Partridge 108-171
W Mar 30
Renaissance Rebuilding
[Th Mar 31
Advanced Registration Begins]
[Th Mar 31 Last Day to Drop a Course which counts against drop limit]
Georgina Mason, "Pietro Aretino and the Small Roman Renaissance Pleasure
Garden," Garden History 8 (1980): 67-68
[JSTOR];
Cynthia Stolhans, "Fra Mariano, Peruzzi and Polidoro da Carvaggio: A New Look at
Religious Landscape in Renaissance Rome," The Sixteenth-Century Journal
23 (1992): 506-25 [JSTOR];
William Stenhouse, "Visitors, Display, and Reception in the Antiquity
Collections of Late-Renaissance Rome," Renaissance Quarterly 58 (2005):
397-434 [JSTOR]
F Apr 1
Life
in Renaissance Rome
Sack of Rome
;
Sack of Rome; Peter Bruegel and M. Destombes, "A Panorama of the Sack of
Rome by Pieter Bruegel the Elder," Imago Mundi 14 (1959): 64-73
[JSTOR]
Hibbert 165-78
W Apr 6 Rome of the Counter-Reformation
Hibbert 179-99; den Arend; Palazzo
Madama; Palazzo Quirinale;
Bernini's Colonade;
Teresa in Ecstasy.
F Apr 8 Bernini and the Baroque
Study
M Apr 11 Midterm #3
Hibbert 200-26
W Apr 13 Il Settecento and the Grand Tour
Hibbert 227-43
F Apr 15 Napoleanic and Restorationist Rome
Hibbert 244-85
M Apr 18 Royal Rome
Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament 1871;
paper due Wednesday, April 20;
W Apr 20 Royal Rome and WWI
Hibbert 286-95; Painter
1-38; Benito
Mussolini: What Is Fascism?
F Apr 22
Fascist Rome
Painter 39-127;
Stazione Termini
M Apr 25 Fascist Rome
Painter 141-62; Hibbert
293-301
W Apr 27 Rome in WWII
Hibbert 305-09
F Apr 29 Christian Democrats, Communists, Mafiosi, and Terrorists
Herzfeld 1-113; Rome's Centro as Seen from the Janiculo;
M May 2 An International City?
Herzfeld 115-98; use a search engine for "Rome Apartments" or "Rome Homes" and locate and print out an advertisement for a contemporary residence
W May 4 "We Who Were Always Here"
Herzfeld 198-312
F May 6 Life in a Museum?
Study
M May 9 "Roma, Quo Vadis?"
[M May 9 Make-Up Opportunity for Midterms Missed for Good Reasons at 2:00 pm in HH282
[May 11 Individual Study Day]
Study