HST 260 Paper Assignment

Assignment: Following the guidelines listed below, write a paper on the topic I have assigned to you.
 

Paper Topics
   
1- Discuss the concept of time in the Middle Ages and how it affected witnesses’ memories of the events surrounding the William Cragh hanging.  (How did people understand time?  What methods did they use to help them tell time?  How did they remember certain lengths of time?  How did the witnesses’ understanding of time affect their memories, and thus, their testimony in the canonization inquiry?)

2- Discuss the political situation in the Welsh March and how this affected the de Briouze family and William Cragh.  (Describe the relationship between the English and the Welsh in Gower between the 11th and 13th centuries.  Describe the relationship between the Marcher lords and the English crown.  How did these relationships affect the de Briouze family?  How did they affect William Cragh?)

3- Using Thomas de Cantilupe as an example, discuss the medieval canonization process.  (What were some recent changes in the process (by the 12th and 13th centuries)?  What events might take place in order to initiate a canonization inquiry?  What would happen during the process?  What problems might arise during the process?  What was the result in this specific case?)

Guidelines
    1. Source for your paper: use ONLY the book by Robert Bartlett (The Hanged Man)

    2. Type of paper: your paper must have an argument or thesis that provides a general answer to the question assigned to you.  You should indicate this argument/thesis in the first paragraph of your paper.  You must then prove your argument by citing evidence from the Bartlett book.

    3. Form of Citation: you must cite all information you get from the Bartlett book by listing the page number from which you got the information in parentheses at the end of the appropriate sentence or paragraph.  If you are taking information from the book word-for-word, then you must enclose that information in quotation marks.

    4. Overuse of quotations: as noted in #3, you may use quotations from the Bartlett book to support your argument.  You may not, however, simply pack your paper with quotations to fill up space.  If over half of your paper is composed of quotations, then it is not really YOUR paper.  It is Bartlett's paper.  Basically, he wrote half your paper for you.  This is unacceptable and you will receive a failing grade for the paper.

    5. Title Page: this is unnecessary. Simply put your name and date in one of the upper corners of the first page of your paper and begin typing below that.  If want to give your paper a title, you should simply place it between your name/date and the first paragraph of your paper.

    6. Length of paper: 4-5 pages

    7. Format of paper: Typed and double-spaced

    8. When to turn in the paper: papers must be turned in at the beginning of the class for which they are assigned.

    9. Late papers: these will only be accepted for really good reasons AND your grade will decrease one full letter grade for each day that it is late

    10. Plagiarism will result in a FAILING GRADE for the assignment -- NO EXCEPTIONS.  You are plagiarizing someone else's work (book, journal, newspaper, magazine, webpage, etc.) when you take FOUR or more words in a row of their work and put it into your work without enclosing it in quotation marks and citing it (i.e., telling me where you got it). Multiple instances of plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the course.