Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 8

Fiero 12

Questions

• What is love? Are there different kinds?
• What's different about the medieval mind as compared to the modern mind?
• Where did universities come from? Why did they succeed?

Medieval Studies Resource Sites

• The ORB - Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Medieval Europe - course with texts and notes by Paul Halsall

Courtly Love

• Courtly Love
  • Capellanus Courtly Love
  • Madrigals of Love
  • Portrayals of Love in Medieval Literature
  • Rules of Courtly Love (Andreas Capellanus) and here.
  • Courtly Love
  • Courtly Love (Geoffrey Chaucer page)
  • Troubador links
  • Bard and Troubador Links

Medieval Catholic Church Organization

• Before 1000 C.E.
  • Carolingian & Merovingian Reforms
  • The Beginning of Church Reforms: Cluny
    
    
• Orders
  • Eremitical (Hermit) Monks
    • Desert Hermits
    • Anchorites
      • Petition to Become an Anchoress
    • Carthusians
      
      
  • Coenobitical (Monastic) Orders
    • Benedictines
      • Rule of St. Benedict, 1949 edition
    • Cistercians
      • Continuity and Reform in the Cistercian Family
        • Cistercian Development in the 12th and 13th Century: The Nuns
      • The Cistercian Order

• Mendicant Friars
  • Franciscans
    • The Rule of St. Francis
  • Dominicans
  • Carmelites
  • Augustinians
    • The Rule of St. Augustine
    • Victorines
      • Hugh of St. Victor
        
        
• Heretical and Marginal Groups
  • Waldensians
  • Cathars
    • Condemnation of the Cathars, Third Lateran Council, 1179
  • Beguines & Beghards
  • Mystics and Heretics - lecture
    
    
• Orthodox Mysticism
  • Orthodox Orders
  • Orthodox Monasticism
  • The Filioque Controversy

Medieval Women Mystics

• Women and the Medieval Church
• Traditions of Women in Mysticism
• Themes of Women Mystics in the Middle Ages
• Hildegard of Bingen
  • Reading Mystical Writings
  • Book of Divine Works excerpts - on reserve in the library
  • Lecture on Hildegard of Bingen
  • Hildegard of Bingen Lyrics & Links
  • Hildegard of Bingen - huge discography
  • Hildegard of Bingen art

Everyman

• Everyman Resources
• The Allegorical Plot of Everyman
• Notes on Everyman
• More Everyman notes
• Synopsis

The Medieval Mind

• Medieval System of Universal Correspondences
• Microcosm & Macrocosm
• How Many Teeth in the Mouth of a Horse?
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Intellectual Life

The Birth of the University

• Medieval Universities
• Birth of the Universities
• Medieval Universities - lecture
• Medieval Universities
• Specific Universities
  • Salerno
  • Paris
  • Bologna
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge
• Medieval Student Life
• Important Thinkers
  • Peter Abelard
    • Prologue to Sic et Non
    • Historia Calamitatum, excerpts
    • Heloise, Letter to Abelard
  • Anselm
    • Proof for the Existence of God
  • Aquinas
    • 5 Ways to Prove the Existence of God
      
      
• The Liberal Arts
  • The Seven Liberal Arts
  • Seven Liberal Arts (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • Trivium
    • Grammar
      • Liberal Arts: Grammer
    • Rhetoric
      • Liberal Arts: Rhetoric
    • Dialectic
      • Liberal Arts: Dialectic
  • Quadrivium
    • Arithmetic
      • Liberal Arts: Arithmetic
    • Astronomy
      • Liberal Arts: Astronomy
    • Geometry
      • Liberal Arts: Geometry
    • Music
      • Liberal Arts: Music

Dante

• Divine Comedy Research Edition
• The World of Dante
  • Map of Hell
• Versions of Inferno
• Dante's Inferno - lecture, Ian Johnson
• Dante's Inferno - interactive map
• Summary of Dante's Inferno