REFLECTIONS ON MEDIEVAL WESTERN SOCIETY AND THE CHURCH
- the forming of a mentality for a thousand years
Lecturer: Louis Ha


Purpose:
information, reflection, response, understanding

topics:
people, Church people, rulers, disasters, outside influence,
religious cultural and intellectual quests, mentality

method:
lecture, reading, field trip (Feb. 10), presentation, term paper.

The triumph of the Church (Disc One, The great Thaw, section 1, 7")
Civilization - a personal view by Lord Clark

Message:
Warmth - 3,000 B.C., 600 B.C., 1,100 A.D. - strength of the will and intellect
Confidence - wealth, stability, skill, long-term project
Church as power - intellect and ability - international
God as the great architect

Social situation
Disappearance of the Roman Empire
Feudalism
Kings and Popes
Monks and knights
Farmers and workers
Islam and crusades
Universities and Pilgrim centres
Plagues and wars
Heretics and Saints