This seminar explores the themes of matter, body and gender in selected works of Hildegard of Bingen, Bernardus Sylvestris, Alan of Lille and Thomas Aquinas. In so doing, it explores the value of historiographical plotting of philosophical, theological and spiritual ideas at the insection of perduring literary and thought tradition(s) and current intellectual vogue. Texts: Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae; Hildegard of Bingen, Liber divinorum operum; Alan of Lille, De planctu naturae; Bernardus Sylvestris, Cosmographia.
ICS 220403 F11
Dr. Robert (Bob) Sweetman
Tuesdays 9:30am-12:30pm
MA, PhD
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