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Dates and topics of class meetings |
Texts (with links to online readings; be aware that the Bible Gateway allows you to choose your translation and generally only prints one chapter per page, so you'll have to click ahead). |
Report topics |
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September 3: Apocalypse, Revelation, Eschatology |
Text: The Apocalypse of John |
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September 10: Other Apocalypses |
Daniel 9-12; Mark 13; The (First) Apocalypse of James; The Apocalypse of Adam; Thunder Perfect Mind (trans. MacRae or Anne McGuire); The Tiburtine Sibyl [packet]; Baumgartner, "The Jesus Cult" [packet] |
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September 17: The Antichrist |
Adso of Moutier-en-Der, "Letter on the Origin and time of the Anti-Christ"; Hildegard of Bingen, excerpts from Scivias; Play of Antichrist [packet]; McGinn, "Antichrist Established" and Antichrist our contemporary" [all in packet]. |
Play of Antichrist and medieval drama (Matt W.) Hildegard of Bingen (Liz P.) |
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September 24: Hell I |
Dante, Inferno I-XVII; Eco, The Name of the Rose, Introduction, Prologue, First Day |
Hell before Dante (Erin M.) Sins and their punishments (Johanna F.) |
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October 1: Hell II |
Dante, Inferno XVIII-XXXIV; Eco, Second day; Bynum, "Somatomorphic Soul and Visio Dei" [packet].
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Geography of Hell (Dana M.) Eco (Timothy T.) |
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October 8: Purgatory I |
Purgatorio I-XII; Eco, Third Day; Joachim of Fiore, Franciscan Spirituals, [packet] |
The concept of Purgatory (Serge D.) Eco (Avi K.) Stigmatism and other paranormal phenomena (Alisa S.) |
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October 22: Purgatory II |
Purgatorio XIII-XXXIII; Eco, Fourth Day. NO CLASS MEETING: Umberto Eco at Thomas, 7:30 pm. Please attend this lecture and post reactions to BOTH the lecture AND the readings for the day to the course webforum. First close reading (medieval image or text) due |
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October 29: Medieval Mystics and Visionaries |
Hildegard, Letter to Helengerus and Symphonia 11, 12, 20, 23, 27, 35, 36, 45, 49; Julian of Norwich; Eco, Fifth Day; Bernard Gui's advice to inquisitors. |
Hildegard's Illuminations or Music (Adrienne M.) Marian Apocalyptic Apparitions (Greta L.) |
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November 5: Piers Plowman I |
Langland, Piers Plowman , Prologue and Passus I-VII; "The Revelation of Golias the Bisshoppe" and Froissart, "The Peasants' Revolt of 1381" (packet #4); Eco, Sixth Day; WWW exercise due |
Seven Deadly Sins (Meredith Stoll) |
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November 12: Piers Plowman II |
Langland Passus VIII-XVII; "The Heretic"; Bynum, "Material Continutity, Personal Survival..." [packet]; Eco, Sixth Day
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Piers Plowman (Miriam A.) Strange things to do with body parts (Bynum) (Charles C.) |
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November 19: Piers Plowman III |
Langland Passus XVIII-XXII; "Moralisacio sacerdotis" ; Despres and Kerby- Fulton, "Visualising the Text"(packet#4); Eco, Seventh Day, Last Page and Postscript Deadline for picking final paper topic. |
Piers Plowman (Meredith Shuford) |
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November 26: William Blake I |
Blake, "All Religions are One", "There is no Natural Religion",Marriage of Heaven and Hell; De Man, "The Rhetoric of Temporality" |
Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Diana P.) De Man (Garrett M.) |
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December 3: Blake II |
Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America A Prophecy, Europe A Prophecy; Bindman, "The English Apocalypse" [packet]. Second close reading (Langland, Blake or related image) due |
Blake's Prophecies (Matt R.) Blake's Illuminations (Emily F.) |
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December 10: Blake III and the end of the world as we know it.... |
W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" excerpts from The End of the World as We Know It.; Jean Baudrillard, Derrida, "Of an Apocalyptic Tone..." Abstract of final paper due. |
Yeats Theoretical Apocalypses (Derrida, Baudrillard) Apocalypse When? |
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Final paper due by Friday December 21 at noon |