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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Introduction
  • The Dawn of a New Spirituality
  • The Birth of Nunneries: Early Forms of Female Monasticism in the Middle Ages
  • Female Voices in the New Mysticism
  • Persecution and Dissent: The True Meaning of Heresies
  • Women Changing Spaces: The Effect of Female Spirituality on the Territory and the City
  • The Role of Women in Confraternities
  • Women on the Move
Practice exercise
  • Quiz Unit 1

Videos
  • The Spread of Cistercian Nunneries: The Case of Las Huelgas
  • The Female Branch of the Mendicant Movement
  • Enclosure: The Not-So-Strict Reality of Medieval Nuns
  • The Daily Rhythm of the Nunnery
  • Books and Archives in the Nunnery
  • Lay Benefactors, Sponsors, and Promoters
  • Founding Queens
Practice exercise
  • Quiz Unit 2

Videos
  • 3.1 The Visionary World of Hildegard of Bingen
  • 3.2 Courtly Mysticism: The Trobairises of God
  • Mysticism in the Nunnery: The Spiritual School of Helfta
  • The Mirror of Simple Souls and the Deafening Silence of Marguerite Porete
  • The Anchoress and the Wanderer: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and English Mysticism
  • The Meditations of Isabel de Villena
  • Birgitta of Sweden: Mother, Mystic, And Founder
Practice exercise
  • Quiz Unit 3

Videos
  • Good Women: The Female Side of Catharism
  • Preaching Voices: The Role of Women among the Poor of Lyons
  • The Role of Women in the Guglielmites
  • The Burned Beguines of Languedoc
  • Inquisitors and Women
  • Curbing Dissidence: From Beguines to Nuns
  • The alumbradas: 16th-century Heretics?
Practice exercise
  • Quiz Unit 4

Videos
  • A Doorway to Women's Spiritual Landscapes in the Middle Ages
  • Monasteries in the Territory
  • Nunneries in the City
  • Reconstructing Female Spaces
  • The Observant Reformation
  • Female Medieval Spaces Today
  • Women and Assistance
Practice exercise
  • Quiz Unit 5
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