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Reading
INTRODUCTION
APOSTOLIC BEGINNINGS
Acts
of the Apostles, chaps. 1-15 [Achaia?, c. 80]
ROMAN PERSECUTION
Pliny the Younger, Letter
to the Emperor Trajan [Bithynia, 112]
Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle
to the Romans [Smyrna, c. 100]
Vibia Perpetua, The
Passion of Perpetua and Felicity [Carthage, 203]
EARLY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY
The Didache
[1st cent.]
Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition [Rome, 215?]
CHRISTIANITY AND CLASSICAL CULTURE
Justin Martyr, Second
Apology [Rome, 150]
CATHOLICITY
Cyprian of Carthage, On
the Unity of the Catholic Church [Carthage, 251]
THE IMPERIAL CHURCH
Galerius, Edict
of Toleration [Rome, 311]
Constantine, Edict of Milan [Milan, 313]
Eusebius, Oration
in Praise of the Emperor Constantine [Caesarea, 336]
ORTHODOXY
Leo the Great, Letter
on the Incarnation to Flavian, Bishop of
Constantinople "The Tome of Leo" [Rome, 450]
TWO CITIES
Aurelius Augustine, The
City of God against the Pagans
Bks. I.1, XIV.28 & XIX.1-13 [Hippo Regius, North Africa, 426]
*Confirm Mid-Term Essay Topics (N.B. See Style Guide, Term Essay
and Essay Evaluation.)
THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM
Aurelius Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans
Bk. XIX.14-28
ASCETIC PIETY
Gregory of Nyssa, The
Life of Macrina [Cappadocia, 380]
*Mid-term Essays (1200-1500 words) due at beginning of class.
Paper Conferences to be scheduled for week of 16 October.
THE CHURCH IN MYSTICAL THEOLOGY
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Ecclesiastical Hierarchy [Syria, c. 500]
BYZANTIUM: ICONOCLASTIC CONTROVERSY
John of Damascus, The
Fount of Wisdom [Jerusalem, 730]
Definition
of the Iconoclastic Conciliabulum [Constantinople, 754]
Decrees
of the Second Council of Nicaea [Bithynia, 787]
*Essay Conferences begin this week, Birks Building, Room 206.
MONASTIC COMMUNITY
Benedict of Nursia, The
Rule [Monte Cassino, 529]
SPREAD OF LATIN CHRISTENDOM
Bede, Ecclesiastical
History [Jarrow, England, 731]
Gregory of Tours, History
of the Franks [Tours, 576]
*Mid-Term Examination
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
Chanson
de Roland [Old French chanson de geste, c.1095]
laisse 1-176
EMPIRE AND PAPACY: INVESTITURE
CONTROVERSY
Pope Gelasius I, Epistle to the Emperor Anastasius [Rome, 494]
Decree on Papal Elections [The Lateran, 1059]
Pope Gregory VII, Dictatus Papae [Rome, 1075]
Henry IV, Letter to Gregory VII [Germany, 1076]
Concordat of Worms [1122]
THE UNIVERSITY
Peter Abelard, Sic
et Non and A
History of my Calamities [Paris, 1120/30]
Heloise, First
Letter to Abelard [Argenteuil, c. 1130]
MYSTICAL SPIRITUALITY
Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias [Rupertsburg, 1151]
SCHOLASTICISM
Thomas Aquinas, Summa
Theologiae, Ia qq 1&2; Ia IIae q 91 [Paris, 1272]
MEDIEVAL SYNTHESIS
Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
[Florence, 1321]
Inferno, cantos 1-17 (esp. 1-5, 11)
LA CITTA DOLENTE
Divine Comedy, Inferno, cantos 18-34
(esp. 26, 31-34)
*Confirm Term Essay Topics.
PURGATORY
Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, cantos
1-18 (esp. 1, 2, 9, 17, 18)
EARTHLY PARADISE
Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, cantos
17-33 (esp. 19, 27, 28, 30-33)
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
Divine Comedy, Paradiso, cantos 1-17
(esp. 1-3, 10-14)
THE EMPYREAN
Divine Comedy, Paradiso, cantos
18-33 (esp. 30-33)
*Term Essays (2500-3000 words) due at beginning of class.
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