HIST 2200 Lecture 18: Lecture 18, nov 4.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2200
• Professor: Susannah Ferreira

Document Summary

Objective: to contextualize the travels of marco polo in the changes occurring to medieval society in the late 13th century. Medieval universities were actually very relevant and made a lot of headway. 13th c professors were consulting with jews and women and were collecting a lot of knowledge th c renaissance: they were not backward crazies, they were pretty legit. 1205-1215: was sent to preach among the cathars to set them straight & get them back to catholicism. They learned about their language, philosophies, and life then tried to win them over. Retranslation of classic texts dominicans learn arabic, therefore can translate the. Arabic texts into latin (these were originally in greek) Developed a following: especially among women and really tried to keep them from becoming cathars. Operated in the iberian peninsula: suicide preachers they simply walked into the mosque and started preaching, the people of the mosque thought they were bat shit and just removed them.