Saints of Northern Britain

Saints of Northern Britain

Course Description: While the history of the Christianisation of southern Britain remains safe in the hands of figures such as St Augustine of Canterbury, the Christianisation of northern Britain (the borderlands of what is now England and Scotland and Pictish Scotland) remain little known to the general public. This Latin reading course will explore the lives of three seminal figures in the evangelisation of this region by reading sections of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita Niniani, Bede's Vita Metrica Sancti Cuthberti, and Adomnán's Vita Sancti Columbae.

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Level: Intermediate-Advanced. Intermediate-Advanced Latin

Textbook: Instructor will provide materials

Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.

When
Fridays, 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Cost
$250

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Instructor

John Weretka

John Weretka holds undergraduate and graduate qualifications in medieval history, musicology, art history, theology, and Latin, and he recently completed a Master’s degree in Viking Studies with a thesis examining the ethnology of the ‘North’ from Tacitus to the Vínland sagas. He is completing a second Master's degree in Germanic Philology. He has taught extensively for Telepaideia, including courses on Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Donizo’s Life of Matilda of Tuscany, the works of Athanasius Kircher, texts on Hell, heresy, and apocalypse in the Middle Ages, and the Itinerarium Mentis of St Bonaventure. Perennially interested in languages, current fascinations include Old English, Classical Syriac, Old Norse, and Coptic.