History 202 - European Intellectual History, 386- 1300

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Whitman College

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not offered 2008-09 During the nine centuries that passed between Augustine's conversion experience and Dante's vision of heaven, western thought was cut loose from its classical moorings and branched out in directions the ancients could not have anticipated. New institutional settings passed in and out of prominence - the monasteries, the towns, the cathedral schools, the universities - and intellectuals drew on a divergent range of traditions. Rejecting the notion of a single "medieval Mind" this course will look at the diversity of intellectual production in Europe from late antiquity to the High Middle Ages, exploring not only "high culture" (philosophy, theology, court poetry) but also the development of vernacular and oral traditions, and general issues such as the growth of literacy and the foundation of universities. We will focus on close reading of primary sources, including writings by Augustine, Abelard and Heloise, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas and Dante, as well as vernacular romance and fables. There is no prerequisite, but students will be encouraged to draw on their knowledge of other periods in the western intellectual tradition, which they have gained from the Antiquity and Modernity prog

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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