HI350 History of the Benedictine Tradition
This course examines the origins of the Benedictine tradition in late antiquity and its development to the modern period. The primary focus is on the prominence of the Benedictines during the medieval period, the "Benedictine centuries" as they are sometimes known, and on their coming to the United States in the nineteenth century. Throughout, we will place the Benedictine tradition in its social, cultural, political and religious context in order to better understand how it both shaped and was, in turn, shaped by the wider world in which it existed.