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Monastic experiments. Cistercians. Carthusians. Canons Regular. The Victorines.
Women in religious life. New types of religious texts. The "Twelfth Century
Renaissance." Art. Music.
Required Readings: Sourcebook: Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh of St. Victor
and Hildegard of Bingen. L. Eckenstein,
Women Under
Monasticism., Ch. IX, "Early Mystic Literature," pp. 305-353.
[NB. Part I: Mysticism for Women in England (305-325) and Part II: The convent
of Helfta and its Literary Nuns." (328-353). Lynch, Chapter 13 "Monastic
Life: the Twelfth Century," pp. 197-216.
Urban learning. Cathedral Schools. Wandering Scholars. Intellectual Encounters
with Arab and Jewish intellectual culture. New Learning. New audiences.
Professionalization of religious learning and clerical culture. Vocies of
opposition. Lovers and courtiers. Abelard. Heloise.
Required Readings: Sourcebook 2: Lettters of Abelard and Heloise.
Sourcebook 2: Sources for intellectual history of 12-13th centuries.
Lynch, Chapter 16, "The Schools," pp. 239-255
Section 9: Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux on Song of Songs
and On Loving God.
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