01:506:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pope Boniface Viii, Piers Plowman, William Langland
13 Mar 2018
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Intro: societies in transition from a traditional to a modernized form of society tend to become secularized-- developing activities outside of the sphere of religion. Latin christendom was the first area to go through this process, developing natural science, industrial technology, and military and economic power-- aspects of western culture that non-european peoples have been most willing to adopt in our time. The triumphantly christian europe of the 13th century experienced a series of disasters mongol control of russia (1250: and ottoman turkish penetration of the byzantine empire (capturing constantinople in 1453). Moreover, the authority of the pope was increasingly called into question. "yet new forces also asserted themselves government, law, philosophy, science, the arts, material and economic activities were pursued with less regard for christian values. Power, order, beauty, wealth, knowledge, and control of nature were regarded as desirable in themselves. : the disasters of the fourteenth century, the black death and its consequences: (pp.
