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This course examines movements of reform in the monastic and ecclesiastical life of the Middle Ages and the simultaneous rise of religious dissents or heresies. This course focuses on the most significant religious orders founded between the 10th and the 13th centuries, such as the Cluniacs, the Cistercians, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, as well as on the most important dissents of the Middle Ages, such as the so-called Heresies of the Year Thousand, the Waldenses, the Cathars, the Lollards, and the Hussites. This course also examines the lives and writings of some of the most famous female medieval mystics, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete and Julian of Norwich.
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