You are required to use at least four of the assigned readings from each Part of the course for each essay( e.g. four of the seven readings for Part 1 in your first essay, etc). You may substitute one or more of these with academic sources that you locate yourself. Depending on your topic, it may be very useful to bring in an additional source that directly targets what you want to analyze. That being said, all of the assigned readings are excellent and you can do well in this course by showing that you’ve understood their arguments. Your essays, however. should not merely summarize the readings. Rather, your goal should be to focus on some specific area relevant to this Part of the course, making selective use of the sources that you’ve chosen.
For the first essay, a couple of possible topics include;
Here are some broad topics for the first essay that could be developed into an essay focus:
i) identify a core feature of early monasticism and explain how and why this feature
Is reinterpreted in later medieval history;
ii) discuss some aspect of the experience of women in monastic settings;
iii) explain how monasteries were integrated into wider social and political contexts
. This is not an exhaustive list. I encourage you to explore your own interests
if you wish to go in another direction, as long as it is related to the readings
in some obvious way.
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