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Curriculum
6 Topics
Course Introduction
Course Description
Precourse Survey
Meet Your Instructional Team
Bonus course resources
Introduce Yourself!
10 Topics
The Great Church (180 - 313)
Diversity in the Year 200: Dura Europos (c. 240) with Dr. Lisa Brody [Yale University Art Gallery]
The Conversion of Constantine
The Arian-Nicene Controversy
The Nature of Christ
The Rise of Rome
The Creed of Nicaea
Conversion of Constantine
Yale University Art Gallery—Dura-Europos: Excavating Antiquity
From Persecution to Empire
11 Topics
Alexandria
North African Christianity
Martyrdom and Persecution
The Martyrdom of Perpetua (with Max & Nazanin)
Augustine
Islamic Invasion of North Africa
Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas
Augustine on Donatists
A timeline of the Great Persecution
See the Coptic necropolis el Bagawat (Egypt) one of the earliest Christian cemeteries
Augustine and North African Church
13 Topics
Desert Monasticism
Saint Catherine’s (with Max)
Saint Benedict
Irish Monasticism
The Viking Age (with Nazanin)
Venerable Bede Saint Cuthbert and Northumbria
Alcuin and the Carolingian Renaissance
Life of St. Anthony
Benedict Rule
Explore the Gutenberg Bible and its history
Browse the Book of Kells medieval manuscript
View the Lindisfarne Gospels' early medieval illuminations
Monastic Lives Desert Fathers to Celtic Christianity
15 Topics
The Medieval World (Yale University Art Gallery)
Feudalism
Christian Reform
Bernard of Clairvaux (with Max)
Divided Christianity
Crusades
Innocent III
Cathar Heresy (with Nazanin)
Fulcher of Chartres Speech of Urban II
The Capture of Jerusalem (1244)
Christian Attacks on Jews
Henry IV's letter to Gregory VII
The Romance of the Rose
Hagia Sophia's Christian mosaics
Reformers and Crusaders
15 Topics
Mendicant Orders
Saint Clare of Assisi (with Nazanin)
Rise of Universities
Abelard & Heloise (with Max)
Thomas Aquinas
Cathedrals and Theology of Light
Mysticism
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologicae
Meister Eckhart “The Attractive Power of God”
Julian of Norwich
The stained glass windows of Chartres
The Flowers of Saint Francis
Peter Lombard’s The Sentences
Aquinas’s hymn Pange Lingua
Learning and Light
18 Topics
Jews and Muslims in Iberia
Convivencia
The Alhambra of Granada (with Nazanin)
Maimonides and Averroes
Inquisition and Expulsion
Christians Jews and Muslims: Discussion
Moses Maimonides Guide to the Perplexed Introductory Letter
A Christian/Muslim Debate (12th century)
Muslim and Christian Piety in the 13th Century
Gregory X: Letter on Jews (1271-76) - Against the Blood Libel
The Murdered Chorister
Chant from the Mozarabic tradition
David Nirenberg’s Communities of Violence
Arabic's influence on the Spanish language
The works of Averroes
Images of the Alhambra
Documents related to the Spanish Inquisition
Three Religions: Christians Jews & Muslims in Medieval Spain
18 Topics
The Isenheim Altar
Introduction
Sacraments
Saints & Relics
Joan of Arc (with Nazanin)
Pilgrimages
Rome and the Papacy
Avignon Papacy (with Max)
Heresy and Dissent
Seven Sacraments
Tales of Relics
Tales of the Devil
Art of Dying (Ars Moriendi)
Requiem Mass for the Dead
Relics and what they meant for medieval Christians
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Book of Hours
Medieval Devotion
15 Topics
The Early Modern World (Yale University Art Gallery)
Young Luther
Break with Rome
Katharina von Bora (Nazanin)
Opponents & Opposition
Theology
Luther and the Jews (Max)
Reformation Church
Discussion
Martin Luther “Freedom of a Christian”
Luther’s 95 Theses
A Mighty Fortress
Protestant print propaganda
Luther’s original German Mass
Luther's Reformation
16 Topics
Radical Visions
Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster (Max)
Zwingli
John Calvin: Life
Calvinism
English Reformation
Foxe's Book of Martyrs (with Nazanin)
Fragmenting Reformation: Discussion
Hans Schlaffer A Brief Introduction for the Leading of Truly Christian Life
Preface to the Psalter - John Calvin
England Thirty-Nine Articles
The Martyrs' Mirror
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Huldrych Zwingli’s reforming principles
Professor Gordon’s books on Calvin and Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
Fragmenting Reformation
15 Topics
Erasmus and his Legacy
Pre-Trent Catholic Reform
The Council of Trent
Catholic vs. Counter Reformation (Max and Nazanin)
Catholic Bibles
Teresa of Avila & Spanish Mysticism
El Escorial (Nazanin)
The Council of Trent’s Decree on Justification (1547)
Teresa of Avila The Interior Castle: Preface
Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum
The Complutensian Polyglot Bible
El Greco and other works from leading Catholic Baroque artists
Peruse the poetry of Saint John of the Cross
Carlos Eire’s Reformations
Catholic Reform
16 Topics
The Founding of the Jesuits
Ignatius of Loyola (Nazanin)
Francis Xavier
Mateo Ricci & China
Brazil
Closing words from Bruce Nazanin and Max
Francis Xavier to Ignatius Loyola on Missions
Francis Xavier Letter from Japan 1552
Memorial for Matteo Ricci
Japanese depiction of the arrival of the Portuguese
A timeline of the colonization of Brazil
Moxos Ensemble
An early modern Jesuit’s account of the martyrdom of his fellow missionaries
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Post Course Survey
Jesuits and Missions
A Journey through Western Christianity: from Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200 - 1650)
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