Description
For this longer (1,000 word) paper, you will build upon the primary source that you evaluated in your Primary Source Essay only now, you will compare it to at least two other primary sources and at least three secondary sources to put your primary source in its greater historical, and historiographical, context.
A sample paper is included here as an attachment.
HELPFUL HINTS:
Just like your first paper for this class, this IS NOT your “usual” history research paper, where the professor gives you a general topic or question, and then you go out and gather primary and secondary sources to answer that question. In fact, you can incorporate the work you did for that first paper INTO this final paper.
In OUR paper, YOU generate the topic and the question BY READING THE PRIMARY SOURCES FIRST — and then, STARTING from those sources, you figure out what to say ABOUT those sources. Make your argument FROM those specific primary sources, not from an outside question to answer.
So, for this longer paper, you will choose a set of at least three primary sources and compare them. Formulate an argument, and then “prove” that argument by using examples from your primary sources.
This comparison of the three primary sources and your argument about them will be the main focus of your paper.
You will also need to give context to your argument by also using at least three secondary sources. These sources have to be scholarly books or articles from peer-reviewed academic journals, not encyclopedias or popular history magazines. You can make *an occasional* reference to the Bennett textbook, but that must be in addition to your three secondary sources.
Format:
Title Page
Body of Paper: 1,000 words of text, including footnotes
Text should be double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font; 1″ margins all around
Footnote citations following the citation style of your choice
Bibliography (NOT included in the wordcount)
GRADING RUBRIC
Your paper will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Format: 40 pts
Context: 40 pts
Meaning: 40 pts
Significance: 40 pts
Clarity & Style: 40 pts
Total: 200 points
The Peace of God movement not only affected the poor it affected landowners and the nobles in my analysis of my three primary sources the Peace of God movement was led by greed, power, and ambition of people in the highest places including kings and churches. Romanus believed just because you hold the position of authority it does not entitle you to forget about the rights of people in the community. The Miracles of St Benedict by Andrew Fleury action of the archbishop uses power to oppress the poor and nonbelievers by forcing them to take an oath those who fell to take the oath are tortured. The people swore an oath to protect the citizens, but greed and power took over. The church failed in the interest of the ordinary citizens it was concerned about its power instead of Gods. The Agreement between Count William of the Aquitaines and Hugh IV of Lusignan by Hugh Lusignan is about Hugh who had lost faith in his lord over his property which he thinks rightfully belongs to him. Hugh goes against his lord and fights back he believes his Lord to be faithfulness. The Lord wanted power over Hugh and felt he should have kept his vow to him to no matter what. The Novel by, Romanus Lecapenus brought into effect a new law one that helped the poor. Newly powerful landowners were taking the land from the poor and emperor Romanus insisted that the powerful return the land without refund to the owners. My secondary sources: Raverty, Aaron. 2016. “Phenomenological Timing in the Rule of Benedict, Painter, Sidney. “Speculum.” The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Devaney, Thomas. 2013. “Spectacle, Community and Holy War in Fourteenth-Century Cyprus, will support the Peace of God movement affected all people of different status.
Up above this is what my paper must be about my professor advised me that one of my sources will have to be replaced but I can change out my secondary sources if I need too. They just must be a peer-reviewed journal article or a book from an academic press. The one that has to be replaced is Devaney, Thomas. 2013. “Spectacle, Community and Holy War in Fourteenth-Century Cyprus.” Medieval Encounters 19, no. 3: 300-341.
This is also my working Bibliography page that I have so far down below.
Primary Sources
Fleury, Andrew. “The Miracles of St. Benedict.” in Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, ed. Barbara Rosenwein (North York, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2011), 186-188
Lecapenus, Romanus. Novel. in Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, ed. Barbara Rosenwein (North York, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2011), 173-175
Lusignan, Hugh. Agreement between Count William of the Aquitaines and Hugh IV of Lusignan. in Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, ed. Barbara Rosenwein (North York, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2011), 181-186;
Secondary Sources
Raverty, Aaron. 2016. “Phenomenological Timing in the Rule of Benedict.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 51, no. 3: 291-308.
Painter, Sidney. “Speculum.” The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Vol 32, No 1. N.p., n.d. Web. 02
Devaney, Thomas. 2013. “Spectacle, Community and Holy War in Fourteenth-Century Cyprus.” Medieval Encounters 19, no. 3: 300-341.