History of Christianity: Middle Ages

lreli1253  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

History of Christianity: Middle Ages
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q2

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2019-2020
Teacher(s)
Bertrand Paul;
Language
French
Main themes
To meet these objectives, the course covers the following:
- the study of one or two of these questions: the development of monasticism, the Christianisation of Europe, the Imperial Church, Gregorian and Clunisian reform, the birth of the Cistercians and of the mendicant orders, the development of female piety, the Devotio moderna and the pre-reform.
- the daily life of the Christians and Church history in our regions with the course extended to cover the situation of Eastern churches.
- an initiation to historical criticism and the use of the work instruments of historians of this period.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 - situate the principal chronological markers of the history of Christianity in the Middle Ages;
 
- read historical sources with a critical spirit;
 
- make proper use of the work instruments of the Medievalist historian.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Faculty or entity
TEBI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Bachelor in religious studies

Bachelor in History

Minor in Christian Theology

Minor in Medieval Studies

Minor in Sciences of Religions (openness)

Minor in Sciences of Religions (discipline to complement the major)