ME4807 The Early Mendicants: Francis, Clare and Dominic (c. 1180 - c. 1270)

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Full Year

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

60

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Available only to students in the Second Year of the Honours Programme.

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Prof F E Andrews

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Module Staff

Prof F E Andrews

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Module description

This module will use a rare combination of written and visual sources to examine and compare the personalities, careers and impact of Saints Francis, Clare and Dominic and the Orders they founded. Themes to be considered will include the influence of their immediate predecessors and contemporaries in the 'evangelical awakening', the problems posed by the sources for the lives of the saints themselves, poverty, mendicancy and itinerant preaching, the impact of their cults on art and architecture, institutional developments and relations with the papacy, the secular church, the inquisition and the universities.

Assessment pattern

2 x 3-hour Written Examinations = 60%, Coursework = 40%

Re-assessment

New Coursework: 1 x source exercise (2,500 words) and 1 x 5,000-word essay = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 3-hour seminar, plus 1 office hour.