MDEM 271: MEDIEVAL POPULAR CHRISTIANITY
Spring 2026 · Section 001 · CRN 25473
For much of the Middle Ages, literacy was a luxury that ordinary people could not afford. How could peasants participate in Christian traditions? Course surveys devotional practices engaged by the laity, including penance, pilgrimage, plays, charms and spells, as well as traditions of lay interaction with dead saints and ghosts. Cross-list: RELI 271.
- Credits
- 3
- Instructors
- Zach Schwarze