VIRTUAL PROGRAM
Thursdays from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
$175 for the session
Since A.D. 418 Pelagius has been judged a heretic for arguing that man had free will and that human nature was inclined to goodness, and that these principles were integral to Christianity’s message. How and why were these views condemned? And why were his writings staples of medieval monastic libraries, continuing to enjoy wide circulation in the print era? We’ll explore what Pelagius wrote, and why a caricature of him was fabricated that said he taught that man had no need of God’s grace.
Dr. Alison Bonner is Associate Professor of Celtic History (encompassing the History of the Brittonic-Speaking Peoples and the History of the Gaelic-Speaking Peoples) in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. The Department is the only place in the world where you can study the history of the Brittonic-Speaking Peoples (and that of the Gaelic-Speaking Peoples who lived in both Ireland and Scotland), and is the only place in the world where you can study the five languages of Britain including Brittonic and Old Irish from scratch.