Monday, March 23, 2015

Assignment for Friday, 03-27-15

Dear Readers of Rome,

On Friday, we will review a long stretch of history that includes Crusades, various schisms, some monastic orders, and some sackings. While our our focus remains on Rome, notice how events happening in other places (such as Jerusalem and Constantinople) impact what happens in the West. A chief concern in this historical sweep is for us to recognize the tension between power ( as in commanding armies or controlling wealth) and authority (as in leading and learning an apostolic life), and how that dynamic is played out on the urban stage that is Rome. 

Please do the following:

(1) Download, print, and read the timeline, Monks, Mendicants, Crusaders & Anti-Popes.

(2) Download, print, and read the short selection on the 1527 Sacking of Rome from Charles L. Stinger's  book The Renaissance in Rome (Yale, 1985).

(3) Read the section "Dissent and Schism" in the Blue Guide's Historical Sketch (pp. 19–21).

The materials we review on Friday are valuable not just for contextualizing what we learn in this current unit (Popes, Pilgrims & Heretics), focused as it is on the Middle Ages and Renaissance; they also anticipate important events we will cover when we get to the Modern Period.

gs/DC

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