(Duiker 327-335; Brians 250-254)
Questions about Duiker: *What were the main obligations of serfs toward their lords? What was the staple of the peasant diet? What was their most common drink? *How were medieval cities governed? What were the functions of the craft guilds? *Give an example of the power of the Pope over secular rulers. *What was the function of the Holy Office? *What were the main characteristics of Romanesque churches?
Questions about The Inferno: *According to Virgil, what sort of sin is being punished in this passage? In what symbolic way are they punished?
Lecture topics:
The Catholic Church asserts its power
Importance of afterlife
Wealth & reaction (St. Francis)
Jeanne d’Arc: her significance
Rise of cities
Role of mercantilism
Italian communes
Dante: The Divine Comedy
The Black Death: immediate &
long-range impacts
Supplementary materials:
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- NetSerf: MedievalArchitecture, Art, Archeology, Culture
- Medieval Art & Architecture
- Welsh Castles
- Gothic Dreams
- Another Chartres site
- Notre Dame de Paris (Gothic Dreams)
- Tour of Durham Cathedral
- St. Francis of Assisi
- The Plague in Renaissance Europe
- The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas
- Tres riches heures du Duc de Berry Beautiful illuminated manuscript.
- Digital Dante Project Includes Longfellow’s translation
- Dante’s Inferno Study Guide
- On-Line Text Materials for Medieval Studies
- Documents relating to the life of women in the Middle Ages