Lecture Notes Outline
Monastic revival – Cluny & the Cistercians
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Hildegard of Bingen
Chasing down heretics – Waldensians, Albigensians, and the Inquisition
- Expulsion of the Jews
A new form of monastic ministry – the Franciscans & Dominicans
- Francis & Clare
Papal corruption & schism – “the Babylonian Captivity” in Avignon
- Catherine of Siena
The Black Death & the Anglo-French wars
- Julian of Norwich
Scholasticism
- Thomas Aquinas
Art & architecture
Age of discovery begins
The Renaissance begins to bloom
Calls for Reformation
- John Wyclif
- Devotio Moderna
- Jan Hus