Class Note A World Well Made

Historical

Context
1731, the book was forbidden
Corrupted priests
Jesus resurrection without his foreskin
o A problem in the Medieval era, but nowadays no one really know
Richard the Leinhardt captured so that Vienna became the center
Vienna building connection with Rome
o Some Italian buildings
Agnes
o Nobility
Biography
She was holly because she started when she was a young girl
Alone
o Separating herself from other children
Help the poor and show concerns for the suffering around her
She did not want to eat
o People say they were Anorexia (a huge issue)
Women did not have many choices
They could choose to eat or not to eat
Died in 1315
Major theme
Emic and etic
Beguine

o Men and women live together like a monastery but in house

o They are free to leave at anytime as their wish
o Safe and pursuit the spiritual life
o Being away from patriarchy
Lack of eating give people illusion. Imagining tasty food. Wine were not
allowed. Fast for spiritual life
Sacred calendar
o Have visions on different days
o Emerged in that seasonal cycle of Catholicism
Street Mysticism
o Ordinary life
o Food and taste based
Symbolism and meanings
o Knights (soldiers military) P89
Each serve for one things
Compassion
Love
Faith
Desire for god Virgin Mary
Passion
o Christ with 3 gifts p110
Modification of the flash
Grace from god
Love and charity
o 5 types of confessors p51 -52
Heads of pig and soiled snouts
Greed

Heads of dogs
Vainglory
Frightening devilish disposition and faces of larvae
Apostates and also other sacrilegious
Human faces splattered in blood
For own pleasure, selfish
Radiant faces illuminated by a certain divine light
Salvation
Core teaching of Christianity
o Express with uniquely culture symbolism
Some still work today and some do not
Medieval Art and Architecture: Site Visits
Courtly Mysticism
o Love from a distance
Troubadours
o Traveling musicians
o From casa to casa, court to court
o Made music of love
o Describe beauty of lady
Virgin Mary Immaculate birth

Three stages of study religion

(1) Unified System (Middle Ages)
o Visions, Ecstasies, Miracle
(2) Wiener Moderne dream
(3) De Button: Synthesis
o New aspect of religion with no dogma
o Search for meaning