2009-2010 New York City Program
Counterattack!
Primal Assaults on the Medieval Catholic Synthesis (1270--1378)
Lecturer: John Rao, D. Phil., Oxford
Associate Professor of History, St. John's University
September 20: The Headless Christendom of 1270 A.D.
October 4: Holding the Fort--The 2nd Council of Lyons (1274)
October 18: Critiques of Reason & the Nominalist Advance
November 1: Mystical Revival: Orthodox, Heretical, & Apocalyptic
November 15: Turmoil Among the Franciscans
November 22: Papal Politics, Legalism, & Heresy
December 6: Special Lecture: Dr. David Allen White (See reverse side)
December 20: Philip the Fair Versus Boniface VIII
January 24: From Loss of the Holy Land to Attack on the Templars
January 31: John XXII & the Definitive Move to Avignon
February 14: John XXII, the Empire, & the Lay Spirit
February 28: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio & the Revival of Letters
March 14: A Changing Aesthetic & Spiritual Environment
March 28: War, Plague, & Ecclesiastical Disruption
April 11: Byzantine Divisions & Crusading Dilemmas
April 25: Birthday of Rome Lecture (To be announced)
May 1: The Avignon Administrative Machine & its Opponents
All Sessions Meet on Sundays, at 2:30 P.M.
Wine & Cheese Reception. Entrance Fee at door of $10.00
University Parish Church of St. Joseph/371 Sixth Avenue
Church Hall Entrance on Washington Place, south of Waverly Place
A, B, C, D, E, F, V trains to West 4th Street Station
Wheelchair Accessible