COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

1. What common assumptions about Europeans’ religious and political identities do these documents share? In what ways does the conflict between Pope Boniface and King Philip IV of France reflect a shift in these assumptions?

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   What common assumptions about Europeans’ religious and political identities do these documents share? In what ways does the conflict between Pope Boniface and King Philip IV of France reflect a shift in these assumptions?
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   What common assumptions about Europeans’ religious and political identities do these documents share? In what ways does the conflict between Pope Boniface and King Philip IV of France reflect a shift in these assumptions?
2. How would you compare Hadewijch’s search for religious understanding to that of Aquinas?

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   How would you compare Hadewijch’s search for religious understanding to that of Aquinas?
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   How would you compare Hadewijch’s search for religious understanding to that of Aquinas?
3. Compare and contrast the ways that Hadewijch and Dante approach the search for the soul’s meaning. What similarities and differences do you see in their styles and use of language?

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   Compare and contrast the ways that Hadewijch and Dante approach the search for the soul’s meaning. What similarities and differences do you see in their styles and use of language?
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   points: 10

   Compare and contrast the ways that Hadewijch and Dante approach the search for the soul’s meaning. What similarities and differences do you see in their styles and use of language?
4. Hadewijch embodied the rise of intense lay piety in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. How does this development relate to the intolerance for Jews revealed in The Life and Martyrdom of St. William of Norwich?

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   Hadewijch embodied the rise of intense lay piety in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. How does this development relate to the intolerance for Jews revealed in The Life and Martyrdom of St. William of Norwich?
   accept_blank_answers: true
   points: 10

   Hadewijch embodied the rise of intense lay piety in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. How does this development relate to the intolerance for Jews revealed in The Life and Martyrdom of St. William of Norwich?