Syllabus
* Mandatory:
DEANESLY, M.: A History of the Medieval Church (590-1500). 9th ed. London: Routledge, 1967.
LE GOFF, J.: The Birth of Europe. Boston: Blackwell, 2005.
* Recommended:
MCGRATH, A. E.: The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation. Boston: Blackwell, 2004 (chapters 1, 2).
SOUTHERN, R. W.: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
Annotation
Module designed to provide a general overview of the long and complicated history of relations between medieval Catholic Church and state, both on the personal and institutional level, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Hussite Revolution and Reformation. It aims to reflect how these relations changed over time and how they affected Medieval society, both Christian majority and religious minorities.
1. Church and State in Late Roman Empire
2. Birth of Medieval Christian Europe – and Christian State
3. Rise of Papal Authority
4. Church and State in Conflict, part 1
5. Church and State in Conflict, part 2
6. "Render unto Caesar“? Contemporary Views on Papal v. Royal Supremacy
7. Church, State, and the Crusades
8. Religious Institutions in Medieval Society, part 1
9. Religious Institutions in Medieval Society, part 2
10. Heresy and Institutional Repression
11. Christian State and Religious Minorities: The Jews, the Muslims
12. Papal schism, Hussites, and Erosion of the Church Authority
13. Reformation and Change of the Traditional Model