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. It explores the use of myth or religious story within the construction of theoretical understanding. It does so in terms of the “story of origin” as it comes to expression within the Latin Christian world of the twelfth century in schooled creation poems and in contrast to the thematization of creation in the contemporary monastic discourse of Hildegard of Bingen and in the scholastic thematizations of the next century represented by Thomas Aquinas.
ICS 220403 F17
Dr. Robert Sweetman
Tuesdays 9:30am-12:30pm
MA, PhD
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