The title of the 2010–2011 Roman Forum New York Church History Discussion Series was Division, Despair and the Torturous Road to Recovery: From the Western Schism to the Fall of Constantinople (1378–1453). Both audio and videotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Roman Forum Soundcloud.

Syllabus

---

2010

September 19: Sorrows, Anxieties, and Hopes of the 1370s

October 3: Urban VI & the Onset of the Schism

October 17: A Tale of Two Papacies

October 24: Via Facti, Via Conventionis, Via Concessionis. Including a talk by Professor John Médaille (University of Dallas) on his new book, Toward a Truly Free Market.

November 7: From the Triple Papacy to the Council of Constance

November 21: Martin V & the Troubled Return to Rome

December 5: Special Lecture by Dr. David Allen White: Charles Dickens & the Evils of Modernity

December 19: Two Roads to Recovery, High and Low

2011

January 16: Nominalism Triumphant?

January 30: Heresy Unleashed?

February 13: The Complex Hussite Movement

February 27: The Growing Pains of Renaissance Humanism

March 20: Humanism, Politics, Education, and the Papal Court

April 3: Devotio Moderna & Catholic Spiritual Life

April 17: The Renaissance: Enrichment & Second Childhood

May 1: The Turkish Threat & Byzantine Dilemmas

May 15: Crusade, Reunion, and the Council of Ferrara-Florence

June 5: The Fall of Constantinople