At 10:21 AM 1/15/00 -0600, David Peters wrote:
>We've recently been discussing where to draw the line as to what are and
>what are not topics appropriate to this mailing list. I am curious
>about the Reformers. For example, Martin Luther is sometimes considered
>a "late medieval" theologian. Sometimes he's considered an "early
>modern" theologian. Scholars differ as to the time frame of what
>constitutes "medieval studies." What do the scholars on this list
>consider to be the beginning and ending dates for the era which we are
>discussing here?
As a generalist teaching in a US community college, I must perforce
maintain scholarly interests across geographic and historical
boundaries. For example, I'm currently researching New England Puritan
appropriations of late medieval apocalypticism (e.g. Judgment Day tropes)
and presenting a paper at Leeds this summer on the same topic in
Massachusetts Puritan minister Michael Wigglesworth's poem "The Day of
Doom," North America's late 17th-early 18th best-selling book. However, I
can understand the list's need to concentrate on "medieval religion" while
including what preceded it (rabbinic Judaism, late Classical paganism,
Patristics, early Islam) as well as what followed.
T.L. Long
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