DANCEST 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Gluttony, Original Sin, Ethnography
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As professor sobecki does not believe in a medieval to early modern divide, he speaks of the pre- modern period (which is the period before the enlightenment). According to him, modernity begins with the enlightenment, when someone first (this might have been voltaire or hume) invents the idea that you can imagine a world without god. Everything before this pre-modernity, whether catholic or protestant, is just flavours of the same stuff (superstition, supernatural). Here we have an approach that allows you to imagine a world where god does not have to exist. A world where nothing is presupposed to god. And this is new, everything before this belongs to the same old world view. Pre-modern ideas of saints and sin(ners) vary profoundly and deeply throughout the period we are studying. They also vary from our modern concepts of saints and sin. This course covers literature from a period of about 600 years.
