Great Books Ladder · High school · Grade 7–12

The Middle Ages

Volumes 17 to 19: Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales.

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8 topics in 2 units. Builds on Rome and Late Antiquity. Leads to Renaissance and Reformation.

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Unit 1 Thomas Aquinas

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The Summa Theologica: faith and reason brought together in one great structure of questions.

  1. Aquinas: God and Creation (being written)
  2. Aquinas: Happiness, Virtue and Law (being written)
  3. Aquinas: Faith, Hope and Love (being written)

Unit 2 Dante and Chaucer

5 topics

A journey through the next world, and a pilgrimage full of stories.

  1. Dante: Inferno (being written)
  2. Dante: Purgatorio (being written)
  3. Dante: Paradiso (being written)
  4. Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde (being written)
  5. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (being written)
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