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Fordham University History
(hsga) 7025, Fall
2005
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Title |
Proseminar:
Medieval Religious Cultures |
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Credits |
4 |
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Instructor |
Richard F. Gyug Dealy Hall 628, tel. (718)-817-3933; FMH 405, tel. (718)-817-4655 office
hours: TWR, 10:00-2:00 in FMH 405, or by appointment |
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Format |
Weekly
meetings/discussions, Monday 5:30-8:00, Dealy 107 |
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Description |
The proseminar provides an introduction to significant issues in the area and the basic tools for research. Students who continue in the linked seminar in the spring 2006, hsga 8025, will write research papers on selected topics in the area.
Major
topics and debates in the study of medieval religious cultures will be
considered through works on the cult of saints, popular religion,
devotional practices, religious identities, and questions of dissent.
In addition to introductions to sub-disciplines such as hagiography and
liturgy, research methods and problems will be considered through the
close reading of selected primary sources. Most classes will include
Latin translation exercises. |
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Course
Texts (although all the
texts for the course will be on the reserve shelves, the following will
not be
available on ERes, and you will need to borrow, copy or buy them)
Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom, 2nd edn. (2003) ISBN 631221387 --- $29.95 Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars, 2nd edn. (2005) ISBN 0300108281 --- $12.95
Lester
K. Little, Benedictine
Maledictions (1996
reprint [1993]) ISBN 801481139
--- $19.99
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Course
Outline (the readings for the
first three
weeks are listed below; specific assignments for the remaining classes
will be
distributed several weeks before each)
Introduction and
Historiography
Wed 7 Sept John Van Engen, “The Christian Middle Ages as an Historiographical Problem,” The American Historical Review 91.3 (June 1986): 519-552 [electronic journal]; John Van
Engen, “The Future
of Medieval Church History,” Church History 71.3 (September
2002):
492-522 [electronic journal].
Mon 12 Sept Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom, 2nd edition (2003) [course text]; Egeria’s Travels [ERes]; selection
from
Eulogius, Memoriale sanctorum (PL 115)
Mon 19 Sept John Bossy, “The Mass as a Social Institution, 1200-1700,” Past and Present 100 (1983): 29-61 [electronic journal]; John Bossy, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (1985), part 1 [ERes]; John Arnold, Belief
and
Unbelief in Medieval Europe (2005) [course text] Translation:
Eulogius, Memoriale
sanctorum (PL 115)
The Cult of Saints Mon 26 Sept, Mon 3 Oct, Mon 17 Oct No class 10 Oct (Columbus Day)
Studies or selections from them: I. N. Wood, The Missionary Life (2001) Barbara Abou-el-Haj, The Medieval Cult of Saints (1994) Cynthia Hahn, Portrayed in the Heart (2001) Aviad M.
Kleinberg, Prophets
in the Their Own Country (1992)
Sources: Bede, The Lives of The Holy Abbots Life of Burchard Bishop of Worms Cantigas de Santa Maria Lives of St.
Francis
Translation
exercises
Images, Signs and Belief Mon 24 Oct, Mon 31 Oct, Mon 7 Nov, Mon 14 Nov
Studies or selections from them: Isabel Moreira, Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul (2000) Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses (2003) Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts in the Middle Ages (1998 [1994]) Nancy
Caciola, Discerning
Spirits (2003)
Sources: Jacobus de
Voragine, The
Golden Legend
Translation
exercises
Pastoralia, Liturgy and Popular Religion Mon 21 Nov, Mon 28 Nov, Mon 5 Dec, Mon 12
Dec, Wed 14
Dec
Studies or selections from them: Peter Cramer, Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages (1993) Lester K. Little, Benedictine Maledictions (1993; reprint edition 1996) André Vauchez, The Laity in the Middle Ages (1993 [orig. French ed.1987]) Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi (1991) Eamon Duffy, The
Stripping
of the Altars, 2nd edn. (2005)
Sources: Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care John T. McNeill and Helena M. Gamer, Medieval Handbooks of Penance Barcelona diocesan registers The Book of
Margery Kempe
Translation exercises |