Chapter 6

Christendom: Europe in the Age of Faith

The Medieval Church

excommunication

interdict

heresy

1233 – The Inquisition

Sin and Salvation

sacraments

Purgatory

The Literature of Mysticism

didactic

visionary

Hildegard of Bingen

Saint Francis: Medieval Humanist

early Christian ideals

stigmata

Mysticism: Christian and Muslim

Sufism

Medieval Towns

local markets

middle class

guilds

Medieval Drama

origins

vernacular language

pageants

mystery plays

miracle plays

morality plays

allegorical

Dante’s Divine Comedy / Commedia Divina / Commedia

“Inferno”

punishment by sin

The Medieval University

first university – Bologna, Italy 1159

medieval Scholasticism

Thomas Aquinas

The Pilgrimage Church

relics

reliquaries

pilgrimage routes

vaulting techniques

Romanesque Architecture

follows Carolingian church construction

architectural characteristics

church of Saint-Sernin

The Gothic Cathedral

clear break with classicism

architectural characteristics

Abbot Suger

lux nova

Chartres Cathedral

Medieval Painting: The Gothic Altarpiece

gesso

tempura

Madonna Enthroned

Parallels – Temple-Shrines: Christian and Hindu

Notre Dame

Indian temple shrine

Medieval Music

notation

medieval polyphony

counterpoint

instrumental music

Beyond the West: India and China

Shiva

Bodhisattva