Humanistic Traditions II: Week One

Central Questions:

• What does it mean to be modern?

Before Western Modernism

• Mediaeval System of Correspondances
• Microcosm & Macrocosm
• Maps and the Modern World
• World Map, 1518
• Clocks and the Measurement of Time
• Renaissance Stories
  
  
• Renaissance and Reformation Similarities
  • Reaction Against Aristotle
  • Importance of Individuals
  • Primacy of the Will
  • Control
  • Inquiring Mind is the Focal Point of Knowledge
• Mediaeval Bible: Glossa Ordinaria
• Modern Bible: Luther's Psalms, 1519
• The Rise of the Individual

Art

• 16th & 17th Century Art

Catholic Reformation

• General Pages
  • Catholic Reformation
  • Catholic Reformation Resources
  • Counter-Reformation (New Advent)
  • Index librorum prohibitorum [Index of Prohibited Books]1557-1966
    • 1948 list
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• Spirituality and Catholicism
  • Council of Trent
    
    
  • Ignatius Loyola
    • Spiritual Exercises
      
      
  • Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross & the Carmelites
    • Teresa of Avila
      • The Interior Castle
    • John of the Cross
      • Images
        • Images of John of the Cross, and another one here.
        • Dali, John of the Cross
        • Mt. Carmel
          • Image of Mt. Carmel
          • Image of Mt. Carmel, English Translation
        • John of the Cross drawing, and another version, and another
      • Dark Night of the Soul
      • Ascent of Mt. Carmel