Our Summer School - seventh to 21st August

Why non bring together us in addition to students of Thomas More College this summertime inward a two-week course, based inward Oxford in addition to the West country, on the query of Catholic identity in addition to the vocation of the Catholic writer? We too impact the deeper query of what it agency to live human, how a vision of humanity was imperilled yesteryear the English linguistic communication Reformation which helped to exercise the modern world, in addition to how the Literary Revival (from Newman to Tolkien) tried to recover in addition to reclaim it.

The summertime schoolhouse volition laid out at Downside Abbey, a Benedictine community deep inward the catch of the beautiful Somerset countryside, a few hours from Heathrow Airport. There nosotros volition immerse ourselves inward the history of Christian England, specifically through Benedictine eyes, amongst a lecture in addition to tour from the Abbot, Dom Aidan Bellenger (author of Medieval Worlds in addition to Medieval Religion). We volition in addition to then examine the sense of the Reformation in addition to the dissolution of the Abbeys, both historically in addition to through the eyes of writers of the time, notably Shakespeare. Our tutor hither volition live Lady Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford in addition to author of Shadowplay, a majority which traces the recusant sense through the poems in addition to plays of our greatest national writer. We are too privileged to live allowed to brand a somebody see to nearby Mells Manor, the Asquith identify unit of measurement home, which has associations both amongst Glastonbury Abbey (whose ruins nosotros volition too visit) in addition to amongst a seat out of of import Catholic figures such every bit Evelyn Waugh in addition to Monsignor Ronald Knox (the latter worked on his translation of the Bible here). Knox in addition to the convert-poet Siegfried Sassoon are both buried at Mells. We volition too live visiting at to the lowest degree i recusant solid inward the area.

After a calendar week at Downside, where nosotros volition get got the chance to participate inward daily Mass in addition to the Divine Office, nosotros volition proceed to Oxford, where nosotros volition remain at St Benet’s, a Private Hall of the University in addition to too a Benedictine house. There nosotros volition larn almost the pivotal purpose of Oxford inward the history of British Christianity, from its fourth dimension every bit a recusant centre to the revival of Catholic civilisation inward the 19th century amongst the Oxford Movement, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman in addition to 20th century writers such every bit Chesterton, Greene, in addition to Waugh. We volition too await at the influence of the Inklings, peculiarly C.S. Lewis in addition to J.R.R. Tolkien, in addition to see sites associated amongst them every bit good every bit amongst Newman. Finally nosotros volition see the capital, paying our respects close the remains of St Thomas More inward the Tower of London in addition to visiting Westminster Abbey in addition to the newly reconstructed Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare’s plays were in i trial performed.

Further details in addition to registration forms on asking from Teresa Caldecott (secondspringltd@gmail.com). For prices in addition to schedule, maintain reading.

A Question of Humanity
From Reformation to Catholic Literary Revival

PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE
Details are discipline to alteration; delight banking concern agree concluding version. Prices are every bit follows: total course of education residential £1,750 (or students £1,400). Non-residential rate: £80 per day, £50 for one-half a day. The residential rates include 3 meals a 24-hour interval at Downside, but entirely breakfast in addition to dejeuner at St Benet’s Hall, every bit good every bit all accommodation. Fees comprehend tuition in addition to excursions (except London, which involves extra costs). Good spoken English linguistic communication a requirement. Deposit: £300 yesteryear 8 April, residuum yesteryear 1 June 2012.

Tues. seventh August: Arrival at Downside Abbey, close Bath
Tour of the Abbey Church amongst Dom Aidan Bellenger, Abbot, in addition to the monastic Library amongst Dr Simon P. Johnson.

Wed 8th: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 War on Contemplation: Iconoclasm in addition to Dissolution
Dom Aidan Bellenger (author of Medieval Worlds in addition to Medieval Religion)

Thursday 9th: The Age of Elizabeth through Shakespeare’s Eyes
Lady Oxford, the Countess of Oxford in addition to Asquith (author of Shadowplay)

10.00  Introductions. 

10.20  The Reformation takeover. Edward III and The Rape of Lucrece

11.20 Break

11.45  Questions in addition to discussion

2.00  Healing the Rift:  Midsummer Night’s Dream,  Merchant of Venice.

3.00  Questions in addition to discussion

Friday 10th: The Age of James through Shakespeare’s Eyes
Lady Oxford, continued

10.00  The concluding assault: Lear, Othello

11.00 Break

11.30  Questions in addition to discussion

2.00  Hope of revival: The Winter’s Tale

3.00 Questions in addition to discussion.

For readings on these 2 days come across NOTE below.

Sabbatum 11th: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Church Suppressed: Penal Times in addition to the Recusant Experience
Gerard Kilroy (author of Edmund Campion: Memory in addition to Transcription)

Lord's Day 12th: Thomas More in addition to the Politics of Christian Humanism
Andre P. Gushurst-Moore (author of The Common Mind)

Mon 13th: Visit to Glastonbury, in addition to then Mells Manor every bit guests of Lady Oxford

Tuesday 14th: Move to St Benet’s Hall, Oxford.
Visit recusant houses of Mapledurham or Lyford Grange on the way.

Midweek 15th: Visit to the Kilns, in addition to then Littlemore, amongst a seminar on the Marian thread inward modern Catholic literature afterward Newman.

Th 16th: The Second Spring Sermon in addition to its context
Historical tour of Oxford amongst John Whitehead. Lecture yesteryear Ian Ker.

Fri 17th: The “Man amongst the Golden Key” – G.K. Chesterton
Stratford Caldecott, amongst see to Chesterton Library

Sabbatum 18th: Tolkien, Humanity, in addition to Imagination
Stratford Caldecott, amongst see to Magdalen and/or Exeter College

Lord's Day 19th: Optional High Mass at Oratory at xi am
Talk on C.S. Lewis afterward dejeuner at the Eagle in addition to Child

Mon 20th: Excursion to London, see to Tower (St Thomas More) etc.

Tuesday 21st: Departures

NOTE. Readings for ninth in addition to tenth August:
Shakespeare, Edward III (Acts I in addition to II); The Rape of Lucrece; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; King Lear; Othello; The Winter’s Tale.
John Dryden, The Hind in addition to the Panther: First Part.
John Donne, Satires
Velma Richmond, Shakespeare, Catholicism in addition to Romance (Continuum)
Alison Shell, Catholicism, Controversy in addition to the English linguistic communication Literary Imagination (Cambridge)
Thomas More, to the bishops who urged his presence at Anne Boleyn’s coronation inward 1533:
‘Your Lordships get got inward the affair of wedlock hitherto kept yourselves pure virgins, yet get got skillful hear my lords that you lot maintain your virginity still. For approximately at that spot be, that yesteryear procuring your lordships offset at the coronation to live present, in addition to side yesteryear side to preach for the setting forth of it, in addition to finally to write books to all the globe inward defense thereof, are desirous to deflower you, in addition to when they get got deflowered you, in addition to then volition they non neglect presently afterward to devour you. Now my lords, it lieth non inward my ability but that they may devour me; but God beingness my skillful lord, I volition supply that they shall never deflower me.’ (Yale edition of the Complete Works of Thomas More [1963-97], p. 59, quoted ODNB.)
Please note: these classes are for our registered residential students only.

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