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FOLLOWING ARE THE COURSE READINGS

Jan 12
Introduction to Course
Popes, Bishops, and Lay Lords in the Early Middle Ages
•    Donation of Constantine

Jan 19  No class: MLK Day

Jan 26
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Theological Controversies and Christian Praxis: Parish Priests and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
•    González, I, ch. 26-27, 29
•    Penitential of Theodore

 Lay and Monastic Collaboration in Church Renewal
 •    González, I, ch. 30a, 327-34
 •    Philip Sheldrake, “Spirituality and the Process of History,” in Spirituality and History: Questions of Interpretation and Method (rev. ed., 1995)
 •    Foundation Charter of Cluny
 •    The Peace of God; The Truce of God
 •    Liudprand of Cremona, The Deeds of Otto I
 •    Michael E. Hoenicke Moore, "Demons and the Battle for Souls at Cluny," Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 32 (2003): 485-97
 •    Henrietta Leyser, “Clerical Purity and the Re-Ordered World,” in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 4, Christianity in Western Europe, c. 1100-c. 1500, ed. Rubin et al. (2010), pp. 9-21

Feb 2 - Class cancelled due to snow; New class scheduled for May 4 to make up for this loss

Feb 9 - This class rescheduled for Thursday, Feb 12, due to snow storm
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The Investiture Controversy and Papal Reforms
•    González, I, ch. 30b, pp. 334-44; ch. 32, pp. 363-68
•    Jaroslav Pelikan, “The King of Kings,” in Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture    
•    Documents of the Investiture Controversy

Expansion of Europe: Monastic Theology and Cathedral Schools
•    Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon 18 on The Song of Songs
•    Bernard of Clairvaux, “Four Degrees of Loving God” in On Loving God
•    David Berger, “The Attitude of Bernard of Clairvaux toward the Jews,” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 40 (1972): 89-108

Feb 16
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Hildegard of Bingen: History and Hagiography
•    Hildegard, Scivias (excerpt); "Letter to Pope Eugene III," in Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Writings, pp. 89-92, 31-32 (Penguin)
•    The Life of Holy Hildegard
•    Barbara Newman, “St. Hildegard, Doctor of the Church, and the Fate of Feminist Theology," Spiritus 13.1 (2013): 36-55

The Beginnings of Scholastic Theology
•    Anselm of Canterbury, Why the God Human (Cur Deus Homo), Bk I, 11-15, 19-20
•    Abelard (1079-1142), Sic et non (Yes and No)
•    Abelard, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans 3:19-25 (esp. 280-84)

Recommended but not required:

•   Anselm, Proslogion (On the Existence of God)

Feb 23
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The Vita apostolica: Lay Piety, Preaching and Heretical Movements
•    González, I, 32, pp. 357-63
•    M.-D. Chenu, “Monks, Canons, and Laymen in Search of the Apostolic Life,” in Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West (1967; 1968)
•    Documents on the Waldensians:
     •    Origins of the Waldensian Heresy
     •    Waldenses at the Third Lateran Council (1179)
•    Jordan of Saxony, On the Beginnings of the Order of Preachers
                    
The Crusades / Male Mendicant Orders: Poverty, Preaching and Ministry
•    González, I, ch. 31, pp. 345-51
•    Francis of Assisi, Earlier Rule
•    Francis of Assisi, Later Rule (1223)
•    Francis of Assisi, The Testament
•    Barbara H. Rosenwein and Lester K. Little, “Social Meaning in the Monastic and Mendicant Spiritualities,” Past and Present 63 (1974): 4-32.

Mar 2 - Spring Break

Mar 9
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The Growth of Papal Power

•  Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), Guide to the canons

•  Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), The canons

Cloistering Women: The Case of the Penitent Clare of Assisi
•    Clare of Assisi, Letters to Agnes of Bohemia
•    Clare of Assisi, Form of Life; & Act of the Process for Clare's Canonization, excerpts
•    Boniface VIII, Periculoso (1298)

 

Mar 16

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Scholasticism: The Via positiva

•   Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae III, q. 46, a. 3-4 (on Christ's Passion)

Mysticism: The Via Negativa
•    González, I, ch. 33-34a  pp. 387-406, 407-411
•    The Cloud of Unknowing; here is a reading guide
•    Since this assignment is brief, you might begin the next, lengthier, assignment

Recommended but not required:
•    Thomas Aquinas, Five Ways regarding the Existence of God

Mar 23
Late Medieval Crises: Piety, Society, & Papacy
•    Boniface VIII, Clericis Laicos (1296); and Unam Sanctam (1302)
•    Catherine of Siena, Letters:
     •    Letter 255 (June 1376) to Pope Gregory XI at Avignon)
     •    Letter 250 (August 1377) to Fra Giovanni di Gano
     •    Letter 113 (Nov/Dec 1377) to Countess Bandeçça Salimbeni
     •    Letter 310 (Sep 1378) to three Italian cardinals (regarding the Schism)
•    Caroline Walker Bynum, “...And Woman His Humanity,” in Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (1991)

15TH Century: Reform in “head and members”
•    González, I, ch. 34b, pp. 411-31
•    Council of Constance: Sacrosancta (6 Apr 1415); and Frequens (9 Oct 1417)
•    Pius II, Execrabilis (18 Jan 1460)
•    The Imitation of Christ

Recommended, but not required:
•    The Book of Margery Kempe

Renaissance Humanism (and further reforms)
•    González, I, ch. 34
•    González, II, ch. 1
•    Erasmus, The Praise of Folly and The Enchiridion, in Spitz

Mar 30

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The Early Reformation: Martin Luther
N.B. Those writing the paper on Luther need not read the Luther readings below
•    González, II, ch. 2-4
•    Luther, Preface to the Romans; Ninety-five Theses; and On Christian Liberty, in Spitz

Recommended, but not required:
•    J. Patrick Hornbeck, “Heresy,” in Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Christian Mysticism (2013), pp. 89-102

Spread of the Reformation
•    González, II, ch. 5-8
•    John Calvin & William Farel, The Geneva Confession, in Spitz, pp. 114-21
•    John Calvin, The Institutes, in Spitz, pp. 129-43
•    Henry VIII, The Six Articles, in Spitz, pp. 162-64
•    Merry Wiesner-Hanks, “Women and Religious Change,” in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 6, Reform and Expansion, 1550-1660, ed. R. Po-Chia Hsia  (2007), pp. 465-82

Recommended, but not required:

•    John Calvin & William Farel, The Geneva Confession, in Spitz, pp. 114-21
•    Elsie McKee, “The Emergence of Lay Theologies,” in A People’s History of Christianity, vol. 5, Reformation Christianity, ed. Peter Matheson (2007), pp. 212-31

Apr 6 - Easter Monday

Apr 13

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Catholic Reform: The Council of Trent
•    González, II, ch. 9-11, 12a (pp. 145-50)
•    Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, Table of Contents
•    Documents of the Council of Trent
•    The Burning of the Talmud in Italy (1553), in The Jew in the Medieval World (1972), ed. Jacob R. Marcus

Catholic Reform: Lay, Mendicant and Monastic
N.B. Those writing the paper on Teresa need not read the reading below
•    Teresa of Avila, “The Foundation of St. Joseph’s,” in The Book of Her Life, ch. 32-36 [N.B. You can omit ch. 35, par. 6-19, a (fascinating) digression about Teresa’s relationship with García de Toledo, O.P., and a brief note about a prophecy concerning her blood-sister María’s death]

Apr 20 - Patriots Day

Apr 27

Reading gude: Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises - click here

Reading guide: Colonial Christianity: The Americas, Africa, Asia - click here

New Religious Orders and the New Shape of Ministry

•    González, II, ch. 12b, pp. 135-45
•    Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises.  Use translations by Ganss or Puhl.

Colonial Christianity: Americas, Africa, Asia
•    González, I, ch. 36-37
•    Documents in The Spanish Tradition in America (1968):
     •    Pope Alexander VI, Inter Caetera (1493)
     •    Royal Instructions to Ovando (1501)
     •    Requerimiento (c. 1512)
     •    Paul III, “Indians Are Men” (1537)
     •    Sepúlveda, “Just War Against Barbarians” (c. 1544)
•   “Bartolomé de las Casas (1474-1566)” in Invitation to Christian Spirituality: An Ecumenical Anthology, ed. John R. Tyson (1999)
•   David T. Ngong, Theology as Construction of Piety: An African Perspective, ch. 4, "Assessing the Theology of Inculturation," pp. 91-106, 121-27
•   Francis Xavier, Letters to the Society and to Ignatius Loyola

Recommended, but not required
•    Haruko Nawata Ward, “Jesuits, Too: Jesuits, Women Catechists, and Jezebels in Christian-Century, Japan” in The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts 1540-1773, ed. John W. O’Malley, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, and T. Frank Kennedy (2006), pp. 638-58
•    John W. O’Malley, SJ, “Ministry to Outsiders: The Jesuits,” in A History of Pastoral Care, ed. G.R. Evans (2000)

May 4

There is not reading guide since the assigned reading is all secondary sources.
Religious Warfare and Crises of Authority
•    González, II, ch. 15-17, 22 [ch. 22 recommended but not required]
•    Nicolette Mout, “Peace Without Concord: Religious Toleration in Theory and Practice," in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 6, Reform and Expansion, 1550-1660, ed. R. Po-Chia Hsia (2007), pp. 227-43    
•    Peter Matheson, “The Language of Common Folk,” in A People’s History of Christianity, vol. 5, Reformation Christianity, ed. Matheson, pp. 259-83

Conclusions

May 5, 6, 7 - Final Oral Exams