CSTS & COML 202: Bawdy Bodies: Comedies of the Grotesque in Antiquity and the Renaissance(HC)

Covers multiple aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical, and into the hellenistic period. Each scholarly essay reflects contemporary scholarship. All the contributions place an emphasis on lived religious experiences. Myth is considered alongside religion throughout..
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Covers the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500AD. It addresses topics ranging from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which believers might attempt to improve their souls.

Febvre's purpose at first was polemical: he set out to demolish the notion that Rabelais was a covert atheist. To expose this anachronistic view, he examined the ideas, information, beliefs, and values of Rabelais and his contemporaries. The result is a work of extraordinary richness of texture, enlivened by a wealth of concrete details—a compelling intellectual portrait of the period by a historian of rare insight, great intelligence, and vast learning.

This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era.