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Role of women in religious movements and institutions. The other Monasticism.
Levels of culture and modes of piety. Varieties of literacy and illiteracy.
Texts and their audiences. Courts, courtly love and religious quest. Urban
religious institutions and genres of literature. Liturgical and paraliturgical
forms of religious expression. Religious theatre. Collaboration, inspiration
and conflict between religious men and women. The problem with men's models
of religious life for men.
Required Readings: Grundmann, Chapter 4, "The Origins of Women's Religious
Movements," pp. 69-88 and Chapter 5, "The Incorporation of the Women's Religious
Movement into the Mendicant Order," pp. 89-134.;
Life of Maire
D'Oignies by Jacques de Vitry.
Required Readings: Grundmann, Chapter 6, "The Beguines in the Thirteenth
Century," and Chapter 7, " The Heresy of the 'Free Spirit' in the
Religious Movements of the Thirteenth Century," pp. xx (pages 237-245
optional). Sourcebook 2: Selections from writings of Hadewijch, Mechtild
of Magdeburg and Marguerite Porete.
Section 11: Marguerite Porete, The Mirror
of Simple Souls and the Sermons of Meister Eckhart. Sourcebook: Marguerite
Porete. The Mirror of the Simple Soul. Trans. By Ellen Babinsky. New
York: Paulist Press, 1993.
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