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  1. The Christian Way of Life and Death
    1. personal salvation through church sacraments
    2. seven sacraments
    3. Purgatory
  2. The Literature of Mysticism
    1. didactic religious literature
    2. Hildegard of Bingen
  3. Sermon Literature: Pope Innocent III on the Human Condition
  4. The Medieval Morality Play
    1. open-air theaters adjacent to the cathedral
    2. mystery play, miracle play, morality play
    3. Everyman
  5. Dante's Divine Comedy
    1. divine promise of deliverance and eternal bliss
    2. spiritual pilgrimage of the Christian soul
    3. Aristotelian divisions of the human psyche
      1. reason
      2. will
      3. love
    4. sacred numerology and symbolism
    5. the "Inferno"
  6. The Medieval Church
    1. the church as a political institution
    2. the Inquisition
    3. the rise of mendicant orders
  7. The Conflict Between Church and State
  8. The Medieval University
    1. Liberal Arts curriculum
    2. First university: Bologna in 1159
  9. Medieval Scholasticism
    1. Aristotle
    2. Peter Abelard
    3. Thomas Aquinas





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