HIST 012 PO -Saints and Society

Institution: Pomona

Description: A history of Christian sanctity from the first to the thirteenth centuries, predicated on the notion that you can tell a lot about a past culture by the way it conceived of its heroes. The bulk of the readings are saints’ lives written by Christian hagiographers whose collective task it was to construct a timeless sense of Christian perfection out of a seemingly infinite variety of individual cases. Learning how to read these curious texts for the information they contain about the late antique/medieval mind-set is the principal challenge of the course. Letter grade only. (Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean)

Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

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