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Apocalypse
of Beatus of Liebana (c. 1180),
The Seventh Angel of the Apocalypse Trumpeting the Arrival of
Christ
William Lundell
Department of History
#210, Hart Hall
506.364.2321
wlundell@mta.ca
Office hours: Mondays, Tuesdays
1-2 pm, Thursdays 1-2, 4-5 pm. Appointments otherwise easily
arranged.
This seminar sets two fundamental
goals: to deepen participants’ appreciation of medieval
civilization and to provide participants with experience in the
conduct of scholarly research and communication. Our focus, after
some preliminary sessions introducing enduring elements of the
practice of religion inherited from the early Christian and early
mediaeval eras, will be the place of religion in mediaeval life
from the 10h through the 15h centuries. Not a seminar in theology
or church history per se (though some consideration of
these matters will at times, of course, be necessary and
appropriate) we shall cast our net more widely to try to gain an
appreciation of the manifold ways in which belief, devotional
observance, dissent, and institutions shaped and were shaped in
turn by mediaeval culture and society at large.
Among topics to be considered:
*the intellectual and spiritual origins of crusading ideals and institutions and the social and ecclesio–political contexts of the crusades
*the 'evangelical awakening' of the 12h century
*the problems of urban society, particularly the development of a monetary economy, and the rise of mendicant orders
*clerical education and pastoral care
*heresy and its suppression
*the evolution of forms of lay devotion and ideals of sanctity
*prophecy and millenarian expectation
*dissent and the call for reform in the conciliar era
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