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Jews of Europe. Video: Debate Between a Christian and a Jew.
Due in class: SHORT PAPER DUE ON THE ANCRENE RULE AND THE FILM THE ANCHORESS
Required Readings: Sourcebook 2: Short text reporting the Barcelona
debate on which the film is based.
Intellectual trends. Universities. Political Developments. Theology and
Theologians in the Later Middle Ages. Devotional forms. Religious Writers
in the Later Middle Ages. Latin and Vernacular Theology. S. Maria Novella.
Spanish Chapel Frescoes. Assisi, S. Francesco Assisi, frescoes of upper church
and Bonaventura's life of Francis. The Arena Chapel.
Required Readings: Sourcebook: Short selections from Late Medieval
Latin and Vernacular Theology; summas, sermons and spiritual quest. Recommended:
Grundmann, Chapter 8 "The Origins of Religious Literature in the Vernacular,"
pp. 187-202.
Section 12: Meister Eckhart and "Devotions
of a Devout and Literate Layman." Sourcebook (closed reserve): Meister Eckhart.
From Essential Sermons, ed. E. Colledge. And short pseudo-Eckhardian texts
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