We've compiled a list of resources you might find interesting as you journey through this course. Feel free to explore these at your leisure. Enjoy!
From Persecution to Empire
Augustine and the North African Church
- Look at a timeline of the Great Persecution
- See the Coptic necropolis el Bagawat (Egypt), one of the earliest Christian cemeteries
Monastic Lives: Desert Fathers to Celtic Christianity
- Explore the Gutenberg Bible and its history here
- Browse the Book of Kells medieval manuscript online
- View the Lindisfarne Gospels' early medieval illuminations
Reformers and Crusaders
- Take a look at Henry IV's letter to Gregory VII
- Read the Romance of the Rose (with illuminations) online
- See more of the Hagia Sophia's Christian mosaics
Learning and Light
- Learn more about Julian of Norwich
- View in extraordinary detail the stained glass windows of Chartres
- Watch a clip from Roberto Rossellini’s biographical film on the life of Saint Francis, The Flowers of Saint Francis (1950) or see the full movie here
- Browse a medieval manuscript of Peter Lombard’s The Sentences
- Hear a Gregorian chant of Aquinas’s hymn, Pange Lingua: (and read the hymn text)
Three Religions: Christians, Jews & Muslims in Medieval Spain
- More information on the The Murdered Chorister, from the Cantigas of Santa Maria
- Hear a chant from the Mozarabic tradition
- Further reading on the realities of convivencia: David Nirenberg’s Communities of Violence
- See a few examples of Arabic's influence on the Spanish language
- Explore the works of Averroes here and read the Incoherence of the Incoherence online
- View images of the Alhambra, or take a virtual tour
- Browse documents related to the Spanish Inquisition
Medieval Devotion
- Learn more about the medieval Art of Dying, (Ars Moriendi), and view a fifteenth-century French tract, complete with woodcuts
- Listen to a medieval hymn from the Requiem Mass for the Dead
- Hear experts speak about specific relics, and what they meant for medieval Christians
- Flip through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and compare medieval editions, and see a medieval souvenir from the pilgrimage to Canterbury
- Take a detailed look at a Book of Hours, and browse a vast array of these devotional texts
Luther’s Reformation
- Read Luther’s 95 Theses
- Listen to Luther’s hymn, “A Mighty Fortress” (Eine Feste Burg)
- See an example of Protestant print propaganda, or examine one in detail here
- View Luther’s original German Mass, complete with musical notes
Fragmenting Reformation
- Fragmenting Reformation - View the striking etchings of the Martyrs’ Mirror online
- Explore Foxe’s Book of Martyrs online, including its vivid woodcut illustrations
- Get a sense of Huldrych Zwingli’s reforming principles here
- Check out Professor Gordon’s books on Calvin and Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
Catholic Reform
- See Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum manuscript online
- Browse the Complutensian Polyglot Bible
- View select paintings from one of the great Catholic Reformation artists, El Greco (click images for details), along with works from other leading Catholic Baroque artists
- Peruse the poetry of Saint John of the Cross
- Further reading on the Catholic and Protestant Reformations: Carlos Eire’s Reformations
Jesuits and Missions
- View a Japanese depiction of the arrival of the Portuguese, and read more about Namban screens, here
- View a timeline of the colonization of Brazil
- Hear the Bolivian “Moxos Ensemble” (Ensamble Moxos) perform historical music that developed in the Jesuit missions for indigenous evangelization
- Learn about an early modern Jesuit’s account of the martyrdom of his fellow missionaries, to catch a glimpse at the passion (and prejudice) involved in missionary work.
- The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, by Jonathan Spence, and A Jesuit in the Forbidden City, by R. Po-chia Hsia, both provide a detailed look at Ricci’s time in China