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10) Tues. 10/15. Midterm.
11) Thurs. 10/17. European Society in the central middle ages. Economies and Societies. The Gift Economy: its mechanism and values. The ritual ordering of human and divine relationships. Feudal society. The three orders. Those who fought: Taming warrior society. Peace of God movements (Lynch , p. 120). The Christian Warrior. Travel and pilgrimage in the central middle ages. Liturgy, song and poetry.
Required Readings: Lynch, Chapters 7 & 8, "The Collapse of the Carolingian World" & "The Church in the Year 1000," pp. 97-135.
Section 6: Discuss the attitude toward art, relics and sanctity revealed by the Miracles of St. Foy, written by an initially skeptical monk. Sourcebook 2: "Miracles of Saint Foy." From Readings in Medieval History. Ed. Patrick Geary. 2nd ed. Peterborough, Ontario and Lewiston, NY: Broadview Press, 1991. Sourcebook 2: Dahl, Ellert. "Heavenly images: The statue of St. Foy of Conques and the signification of the Medieval `Cult-Image' in the West." Acta ad Archaeologiam (1978): 175-190.
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