Medieval Ideas

I. Gothic Architecture
    A. Cathedrals of Faith and Learning
        1. Comparison with Romanesque
            a. Example of Romanesque: Vienne
            b. Examples of Gothic: Saint-Chapelle and Notre Dame 
        2. Gothic is more vertical
        3. Gothic has more light and color  

    B. Colored Glass and Polyphonic Music---illumination of the word
            1. Chartres Cathedral -- stained glass windows
            2. Perotinus, Sederant (1200s)
                a. example of earliest polyphonic music
            3. analogy of color and polyphony


II. Scholastics and Universities

A. University of Bologna,1158; University of Paris, 1200;  Oxford 1208

1. Trivium and Quadrivium

2. Disciplines of law, medicine and theology

a. revival of law using the code of Justinian

b. more rational and orderly courts and civil society
                  c. more rational and orderly priesthood

     B. Rediscovery of ancient texts
             1.  Recovery of Hellenististic and Arabic science and philosophy

     2. Importance of Arab translations and commentaries, especially of Aristotle

      C. Scholasticism--reconciling faith and reason
             1.  Systematic analysis of  theology

a. Debating difference between Plato and Aristotle

b. Thomas Aquinas--Harmonizing Aristotle with Catholicism

III. Different Medieval methods of knowing God

    A. Mystics

         1. Immanence of God

2. Direct interactions with the divine

3. Living the life of faith

B. Scholastics

1. The word of God

2. Theological analysis

3. Knowing the ways of God

    C. Comparing Hildegard with St. Thomas