1. May 23: Introduction
2. May 24: The Search for Origins: Peter, Paul, Christ
a. Collins (pp. 1-21)
b. Gospels (excerpts)
c. Acts of the Apostles (excerpts)
d. Paul (excerpts)
e. 1 Clement (excerpt)
f. Irenaeus, Against Heresies (excerpt)
3. May 25: An Out-Law Church: Fabian, Cornelius, and Stephen I
a. Collins (pp. 22-34)
b. Cyprian. Letters (excerpts)
4. May 26: When the Emperor Becomes Christian: Sylvester I and Damasus I
a. Collins (35-57)
b. Damasus, Letters (excerpts)
c. Damasus, Inscriptions (excerpts)
d. Jerome, Letters (excerpts)
5. May 30: The Great Popes: Leo I and Gregory I
a. Collins (58-116)
b. Leo, Tome (excerpt)
c. Leo, Letters (excerpts)
d. Gregory, Pastoral Care (excerpt)
e. Gregory, Letters (excerpts)
f. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (excerpt)
6. May 31: Turning Westward: Leo III and Nicholas I
a. Collins (117-165)
b. Acts of Sylvester (excerpt)
c. Donation of Constantine (excerpts)
d. Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (excerpt)
e. Nicholas 1, Letters (excerpts)
7. June 1: Cadavers and Whores: Stephen VI and John XII
a. Collins 166-194
b. Gregory I, Dialogues (excerpt)
c. Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis (excerpts)
8. June 2: Popes Reforming and Crusading: Gregory VII and Urban II
a. Collins 195-219
b. Gregory VII, Dictatus Papae
c. Henry IV, Letter to Gregory VII
d. Gregory IV, Bans on Henry IV and Lay Investiture
e. Robert the Monk, account of Urban II’s speech at Clermont
9. June 6: “More than Human, Less than God”: Innocent III
a. Collins 220-271
b. Innocent III, Letters (excerpts)
c. Bonaventure, Legenda Maior (excerpt)
d. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun
e. Hildegard of Bingen (excerpt)
f. Bernard of Clairvaux (excerpt)
10. June 7: Avignon and Babylon: Boniface VIII, Clement V, and Clement VI
a. Collins 272-296
b. Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam (excerpt)
c. Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis (excerpt)
d. Bridget of Sweden, Works and Revelations (excerpts)
e. Catherine of Siena, Letters (excerpts)
11. June 8: The Papacy Splintered: Urban VI and Gregory XII
a. Collins 297-316
b. Manifesto of the Cardinals (excerpt)
c. Manifesto of the University of Paris (excerpt)
d. Decrees of the Council of Pisa (excerpts)
e. Decrees of the Council of Constance (excerpts)
f. Jean Froissart, Chronicles (excerpt)
g. Catherine of Siena, Letters (excerpts)
12. June 9: MIDPOINT EXAM
13. June 13: Patrons of the Arts and War: Pius II, Alexander VI, and Julius II
a. Collins 317-342
b. Lorenzo Valla, Treatise on the Donation of Constantine (excerpt)
c. Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini), Commentaries (excerpts)
d. Alexander VI, Inter Caetera (excerpts)
e. Erasmus, Julius Excluded from Heaven (excerpts)
f. Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists (excerpts)
14. June 14: Reformed and Unrecognizable: Leo X, Paul III, and Pius V
a. Collins 343-367
b. Martin Luther, 95 Theses (excerpts)
c. Leo X, Exsurge Domine (excerpt)
d. Sanuto, The Diaries (excerpts)
e. Paul III, Regimini mililtantis ecclesiae (excerpt)
f. Acts of the Council of Trent (excerpts)
g. Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis
15. June 15: The Papacy in an Expanding Universe: Urban VIII, Clement XI, and Pius VII
a. Collins 368-413
b. Condemnation of Galileo
c. Clement XI, Ex illa die (excerpt)
d. Kangxi, Decree (excerpt)
e. Pius VII, Diu Satis (excerpts)
f. Pius VII, Il trionfo (“The Triumph”)
16. June 16: The Prince Without a Country: PIUS IX and Leo XIII
a. Collins 414-447
b. Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus (excerpts)
c. Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors (excerpts)
d. Pius IX, Respicientes (excerpts)
e. Acts of the First Vatican Council
f. Leo XIII, De Rerum Novarum (excerpts)
17. June 20: The Problem of Modernism: Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI
a. Collins 448 – 473
b. Pius X, Oath Against Modernism
c. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (excerpts)
d. Pius X, Praestantia Scriptura (excerpts)
e. Benedict XV, Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum (excerpts)
f. Lateran Treaties (excerpts)
g. Pius XI, Mit brennender Sorge (excerpt)
18. June 21: Wars Hot and Cold: Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI
a. Collins 474-500
b. Pius XII, Divino Afflatu (excerpt)
c. Pius XII, Humani Generis (excerpt)
d. John XXIII, Pacem in Terris (excerpt)
e. John XXIII, Speech at the Opening of the Second Vatican Council
f. Paul VI, Populorum Progressio (excerpt)
g. Paul VI, Humanae Vitae (excerpt)
19. June 22: Pilgrim and Scholar: John Paul II and Benedict XVI
a. John Paul II, Centessimus Annus (excerpt)
b. John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor (excerpt)
c. On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons
d. Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
e. Benedict XVI,
20. June 23: From Now On: Francis
21. June 24: FINAL EXAM