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What results does this focus on theology have for politics in the Medieval understanding of Thomistic ethics?

Thomas Aquinas: Ethics and Morality Has to have topic statement • Address the foundational ideas for Aquinas’ understanding above in less detail than if you were focusing on that question. • What are some of the ways that Christian virtue ethicists differ from Aristotle’s virtue ethics? • Highlight the question of how Aquinas thinks faith […]

What are the various conclusions, insights-arguments made by historians over the nature of different wars in the middle ages?

Historiography (How Do Modern Historians Interpret Medieval Warfare) The main questions that should be answered are: What are the various conclusions, insights and arguments made by historians over the nature of different wars in the middle ages? [what do these historians say about what medieval war was exactly? its composition, its way of fighting, what […]

How did musicians create music that fit the uses of the Christian church during these periods

Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Periods Of Music-Provide an informed paper on one of the suggested topics below: Text and music – this might focus on song overall, or a particular kind of song Instrumental Virtuosity Music in the Church – how did musicians create music that fit the uses of the Christian church during these […]

Discuss how this literature reveals some of the major themes and concerns of the early and late middle ages.

Literature of the early and late middle ages Look at 3 selections from the Readings in “The Humanities Culture, Continuity, and Change 3rd edition, Ch. 8-10”. Reading 8.5 From Augustine’s Confessions, Reading 9.1 Surah 47 Muhammad, and Reading 10.4 Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias Discuss how this literature reveals some of the major themes and concerns […]

Write a five- to six-page reflection essay on the creation of medical knowledge, and the providing of medical care in medieval Europe.

Write a five- to six-page reflection essay on the creation of medical knowledge, and the providing of medical care in medieval Europe. Your essay should address how medical knowledge was created and transmitted in medieval universities, how medical practitioners were certified and overseen, how medical experts responded to the Black Death (the plague pandemic of […]

Explain how Marie de France’s Lay of the Nightingale and/or her Lay of the Honeysuckle, propose an idealized picture of love.

1. Literary Texts The two lays of Marie de France read in class  Lay of the Nightingale  Lay of the Honeysuckle 2. Purpose of the Literary Essay  Your literary essay is an interpretative analysis and reasoned reflection on the Literary texts we have read in class.  You can base your literary […]