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This course will study the political, cultural and religious context in which Catholic theology developed in the medieval period. For three centuries monastic schools, alongside cathedral schools, were the context in which a flourishing Christian literature thrived. The introduction of Greco-Arabic thought in the final decades of the twelfth century, as well as the development of university charters, led to new synthesis of previous lines of theological exploration in the works of Aquinas. Towards the later centuries of the medieval period new forms of social life, including new feminist roles, are the context in which notable movements of women mystics flourished. Some works of these women mystics will be studied.
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