1. Tonight’s Agenda M i d d l e A g e s Intro to Middle Ages
Dante’s La Vita Nuova
Break
Intro to Dante
Short Pieces/Medieval Mind
Arts in the Middle Ages

2. What Difference Does It Make?

3. Life in the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages

4. Two Views of the Middle Ages

5. View One (What Some People Used To Say)
Church dominated entire society.
Only one religion and one Church.
Learning was in remission.
Women were uneducated.

6. View One (cont’d)
Human achievement was not valued, and there was no such thing as individuality.
People: superstitious, naïve, & crude.
Life was harsh and gloomy.

7. Do You Really Think So?

8. View Two (What Most Scholars Are Starting To Think)
Church: only one element in a diverse society.
Several major religions; variety of factions.
Centers of learning expanding.

9. View Two (cont’d) Nuns & Aristocratic Women: Highly Educated
Human Achievement not valued by a select few.
Crude? Have you seen Jerry Springer lately?
Gloomy? Probably not.

10. Dante Alighieri La Vita Nuova

11. Dante’s La Vita Nuova
D and B’s
Relationship
Unusual
Courtly
Spiritual

12. Dante’s La Vita Nuova
Relationship
Between Love
and Poetry

13. Dante’s La Vita Nuova
Conclusions
Dante’s Purpose
Beatrice’s Position

14. Dante’s La Vita Nuova

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22. Dante Alighieri

23. Dante’s Life and Times

24. Dante’s Major Works La Vita Nuova (The New Life)
De Vulgaria Eloquentia (On the Common Language)
De Monarchia (On the Monarchy)
Commedia (The Divine Comedy)
Inferno (Hell)
Purgatorio (Purgatory)
Paradiso (Heaven)

25. The Divine Comedy

26. The Medieval Mind
Order
Reason
Purpose
Faith

27. The Seven Liberal Arts Quadrivium Arithmetic Music Geometry Astronomy
Trivium
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic

30. Major Intellectual & Spiritual Concepts of the Middle Ages
Judgement
Mercy
Love
Spiritual
Physical
Body & Soul

31. Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)

32. Judgement & Mercy

33. Mary (Pleads For Mercy)
Her Mercy Balance The Judgement of God
Ave Maria Plena Gratia
Ave & Eva

34. Mary (The Annunciation)

35. Our Lady’s Juggler
Faith
Acceptance
Miracles

36. Two Loves
Caritas
Cupiditas

37. Love (Cupiditas)
Earthly
or Romantic Love
(Cupid)

38. The Art of Courtly Love What is Love? Between Whom?
How Should one Act?

40. Love (Caritas) Love of God Usually Expressed By Caring For
One’s Neighbor
(Charity)

41. Body & Soul
The Body
A Stinking Dunghill
The Image of God

42. Body & Soul & Time Present Time Time of Our Salvation
Time of Our Judgment

44. Day Of Wrath