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LECTURE:
MEDIEVAL CULTURE: ROMANESQUE AND CRUSADES

Feudal cultural values

• Document: Song of Roland
• Document: Plan of a Medieval Manor
• Architecture: The Romanesque Church

Crusades and Papal Power

• Urban II: First Crusade (1095)
  • Mr. Dowling's overview
  • Letter of Instruction to Crusaders
  • Map of Europe
• Innocent III (1198-1216)
  • heresy and trade expansion
  • interdict
  • new religious orders:
    St. Francis of Assisi
    • Innocent's dream

Scholastic Philosophy

• Peter Abelard (12th c)
  • Document: Peter Abelard: Sic et Non (1120)
  • Document: Heloise: First Letter to Abelard
  • Versus Saint Bernard
• St. Thomas Aquinas (13th c.)
  • Brief: Thomistic philosophy
  • Outline history of scholasticism (Thomistic Catholic view, Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame)
  • Thomas reconciles Faith and Reason (same source)
  • Document for next Unit: Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica

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