![]() ![]() about the problems you had understanding the text, about things that surprised you in the text, about issues or particulars about which you would like to know more having read the text). These comments should address questions that occurred to you in the course of your reading (e.g. To help you prepare for the discussions and to give me some indication of how you are reading, I would like you over the course of the quarter to type and turn in at least eight comments on the texts read for the day at the beginning of class on the day on which we discuss those texts. The primary requirement for this course is attendance in class and participation in discussion of the assigned readings. Problems to be addressed include the appeal of asceticism in late antique society, the role of the monasteries in the collapse and preservation of European civilization, the social, economic, and political impact of Benedictine monasticism on the development of western Europe, and the progressive reforms of this institution from Benedict to Francis.ฤก. ![]() This course focuses on the origins and development of monasticism as one of the central institutions of medieval Europe. Rachel Fulton - The University of Chicago ![]()
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