Monday, January 14, 2008: The Revival of Medieval Christianity
Monday, January 14, 2008: The Revival of Medieval Christianity
Monday, January 14, 2008: The Revival of Medieval Christianity
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<strong>Monday</strong>, <strong>January</strong> 17, 2011:<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Revival</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medieval</strong> <strong>Christianity</strong><br />
OUTLINE<br />
A. THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC<br />
CONTEXT OF EUROPE<br />
B. THE REVIVAL OF THE CHURCH AND THE<br />
MOMENTUM ADDED TO PEOPLE’S<br />
SPIRITUALITY
KRAK-DES-CHEVALIERS<br />
Source: http://www.unf.edu/classes/crusades/image/kracchev.jpg;<br />
http://www.nd.edu/~sheridan/Syria%202001/Syria%202001-Images/3.jpg; http://www.jerusalempedibus.net/images/perso/krak-des-chevaliers-1.jpg
THE THEMES FROM THE TEXTBOOK:<br />
1. Cultural Transmission<br />
2. <strong>The</strong> Relationship between the Spiritual and the<br />
Physical<br />
3. Understanding the Middle Ages and Anchoring<br />
<strong>The</strong>m in <strong>The</strong>ir Proper Historical Context<br />
4. <strong>The</strong> Growing Self-Awareness, Sense <strong>of</strong> the Self<br />
5. Shift from an Oral Culture to a Written Culture<br />
6. Emergence <strong>of</strong> Kingdoms/Nation-States in Western<br />
Europe<br />
7. Gender and the Role and Status <strong>of</strong> Women<br />
8. Relations between Church and State<br />
-and more to come…
A. THE SOCIAL AND<br />
ECONOMIC CONTEXT OF<br />
EUROPE<br />
-the take-<strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> the European economy<br />
-massive growth <strong>of</strong> towns<br />
-more wealth, the “embarrassment <strong>of</strong><br />
riches”
B. THE REVIVAL OF THE CHURCH<br />
AND THE MOMENTUM ADDED TO<br />
PEOPLE’S SPIRITUALITY<br />
-the problem <strong>of</strong> being Christian and<br />
having loads <strong>of</strong> money<br />
-religious revival among the laity<br />
-pilgrimages<br />
-relics<br />
-revived and reformed monasteries<br />
-the role played by Cluny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bas%C3%ADlica_de_Santiago_02.JPG<br />
Cathedral <strong>of</strong> Santiago de Compostela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_square_Santiago_de_Compostela.jpg<br />
Cathedral <strong>of</strong> Santiago de Compostela
Cathedral <strong>of</strong> Santiago de Compostela<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_Catedral_Santiago_de_Compostela.jpg
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/politics/72619.stm<br />
LORD CHANCELLOR IRVINE,<br />
described by his opponents as a “medieval relic”
Source: http://www.fisheaters.com/reliquary2.jpg<br />
<strong>Medieval</strong> Reliquary
Reliquary Arm, ca. 1230<br />
Mosan<br />
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/07/euwl/hob_47.101.33.htm
Reconstruction <strong>of</strong> the Cluny Abbey
Source: www.cluny.ensam.fr/.../ Synth%E8seAbbaye20.jpg
Source: http://www.cad.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de/architectura_virtualis/Cluny/cluny2g.jpg
Source: www.cluny.ensam.fr/.../ Synth%E8seAbbaye20.jpg
Source: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/harue.paris/030823poitiers021.jpg
Friendly staff <strong>of</strong> the archives départementales de la Vienne
NOTRE-DAME-LA-GRANDE, POITIERS<br />
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