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Apr 27, 2024
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CHST 614 - Poverty and Sanctity in Medieval Society3 credits
High Medieval Europe witnessed two simultaneous revolutions: the birth of a commercial, proto-capitalist economy, and a popular religious awakening that drew on Biblical texts to mount a wide-ranging social critique of the emerging profit economy as well as established religious institutions. In this course students will read both modern historical accounts and also medieval documents about heretics, saints, lepers, and moneylenders in order to trace the origins of an urban commercial culture and to examine its critical observers, the voices of both the “orthodox” and “heretical” evangelical poverty movements of the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries. In considering both heretical and orthodox figures and beliefs as well as the changing conditions of profit-making and poverty, we shall explore medieval Europeans’ notions of a rightly ordered society and the legacy left to us by their ideas about wealth and charity.Texts include biographies of such figures as Saints Francis, Prerequisite: CHST 502 or its equivalent.
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