This course is a chronological survey of the period 1000 to 1500. The assigned readings will include a basic text (Peters); a selection of primary documents highlighting the controversy of church and state, 11th- 14th centuries (Tierney, ed.); a modern study of the First Crusade (ca. 1100) with magnificent nedieval illustrations (Runciman); and three contemporary accounts covering the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, respectively, from the point of view of high culture and low culture (Galbert of Bruges, Salimbene, Froissart). The aim of the course is to familiarize you with the major trends of this period in church-state relations, intellectual thought, and popular culture. At the same tine the course reading emphasizes primary sources in order for you to develop the historian's task yourself of elucidating the how and the why of events and ideas from the documents of the period.