The title of the 2015–2016 Roman Forum New York Church History Discussion Series was Splendors and Miseries of the Tridentine Life: The High Baroque and the Architects of Demolition, 1689-1748. Both audio and videotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Roman Forum Soundcloud.
Syllabus
September 13: The Political and Religious Contours of a Divided Christendom (1689-1740)
September 20: Continued Tridentine Reform & High Baroque Culture: I
October 4: Continued Tridentine Reform & High Baroque Culture: II
October 18: New World Christianity
November 8: Catholic Minds and Catholic Mystics: Bossuet & Fenelon
November 22: Quesnel, Richerism, and the New Jansenism
December 6: Unigenitus
December 13: Appelants and the Parlement-Jansenist Fronde
2016
January 10: Nouvelles Ecclésiastiques and the Birth of the Cause Célèbre
January 24: Jesuits, Jansenists, and The Chinese Rites Issue
February 7: Peter the Great and the Subversion of Holy Russia
February 21: The Republic of Letters: Background and Tools
February 28: Spinoza and the Spread of the Radical Enlightenment
March 13: The Moderate Enlightenment: Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Leibniz, Wolff, and the Prussian Pietists
March 20: Anglomania and its Enemies
April 3: “Catholic Enlightenment” and the Jesuit-Jansenist Battle
April 17: Life in the Republic of Letters on the Eve of the Encyclopedia
April 24: The War of the Austrian Succession and the End of the Beginning (1740-1748)
