This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The course, which will be structured chronologically, traces the development of devotional theories and practices as they affected both religious and lay communities, and will draw on a range of source materials, including legal documents, philosophical and theological treatises, and literary texts. Topics will include the papacy and theology, preachers and pastoral care, eucharistic theology, religious guilds and mysticism.
Andrea, A., Contemporary sources for the Fourth Crusade (Leiden, 2000)
Dante, Monarchy (Cambridge, 1996)
Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarium et Les Lucidaires, ed. Yves Lefèvre (Paris, 1954).
The Cloud of Unknowing and Related Treatises, ed. Phyllis Hodgson (Exeter, 1982)
English Gilds, ed. Toulmin Smith (London, 1870)
Love, Nicholas, Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, ed. Michael G. Sargent (New York, 1992)
Petrus Cantoris, Verbum abbreviatum, Patrologia Latina, SL 205.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
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