In addition to the undergraduate reading and the two historiographical articles linked to the syllabus, graduate students will read three additional books of their choosing from the following list:
John Arnold, Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc
Lisa Bitel and Felice Lifshitz, Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives
John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700
Alain Boureau, Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West
Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints
Carolyn Walker Bynum, Wonderful Blood
Giles Constable, Monks, Hermits and Crusaders in Medieval Europe
David D'Avray, Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society
Dyan Elliott, Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitorial Culture in the Later Middle Ages
Rachel Fulton, From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary 800-1200
Etienne Gilson, Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages
Norman Housley, Fighting for the Cross: Crusading to the Holy Land
Katherine Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
Karen Jolly, Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context
Joseph Lynch, Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe
D. Knowles, Christian Monasticism
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
Jaques Le Goff, The Birth of Purgatory
Robert Lerner, The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages
Lester Little, Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy
R. I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250
Francis Oakley, The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages
Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture
G. Tellenbach, Church, State and Christian Society at the Time of the Investiture Contest
Thomas Tentler, Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation
André Vauchez, The Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices