# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Assignment 1: Autopsy of a Schism](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/assessments/assignment-1/): Pick one splinter group and argue, with evidence, how the four-part framework explains its founding
- [Final Project: The Schism Map](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/assessments/final-project/): A visual map of the movement's splinters, plus a written analysis connecting at least three groups back to the course's framework
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Before the Fracture: Nauvoo, 1844](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-01/): The power centres inside Nauvoo before Joseph Smith's death, and the framework the semester tests against them
- [The Scramble](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-02/): What each claimant to Smith's authority argued, in the six weeks between Carthage and the August conference
- [Charisma as Evidence](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-03/): How the Twelve's claim at the August 8 conference was made, witnessed, and later written up
- [A Crowned King](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-04/): Strang's letter of appointment, his coronation, and why the group didn't survive his death
- [Lineage as Doctrine](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-05/): The Reorganization's succession theory, and the polygamy denial that became its founding pivot
- [An Institution Splits Under Pressure](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-06/): Morrill, Edmunds–Tucker, and the 1890 Manifesto as the framework's fourth move playing out in federal court
- [Continuationism](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-07/): Why a doctrine the mainstream church itself reversed became someone else's reason to split from it
- [The Pattern at Small Scale](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-08/): Three minor splinters, three unrelated founders, the same four-part shape
- [Doctrine Tracks the Pivot](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-09/): Why what a splinter group keeps and discards isn't random — it follows the argument that justified splitting
- [Two Kinds of Legitimacy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-10/): What a court can decide about a church, and what it pointedly can't
- [The Pattern Is Still Live](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-11/): A 1980s schism inside a church that was itself born from schism, and what that says about the framework's reach
- [Wrap-Up](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/lectures/week-12/): No new material — a short close to the semester before The Schism Map is due
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/people/idris-fenn/): A tutor with an archives and genealogy background, running the weekly primary-source work and marking Assignment 1.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/people/marisol-quaye/): The founding convenor, a historian of American new religious movements who built this course around the 1844 succession crisis.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, source citation and getting help.
- [Before the Fracture](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/01-getting-started/): What Nauvoo looked like in early 1844 — the overlapping bodies with a claim to authority, before anyone had to use it
- [Carthage Jail and the Vacuum](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/02-first-review/): June 27, 1844 — what happened at Carthage, and why no single body could immediately fill the gap it left
- [The Mantle of the Prophet](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/03-mantle-of-the-prophet/): The August 8, 1844 conference where Brigham Young's Twelve out-argued Sidney Rigdon in front of the Nauvoo congregation
- [The Kingdom on Beaver Island](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/04-kingdom-on-beaver-island/): James Strang's claim, his letter of appointment, and the only self-declared king ever crowned on American soil
- [The Reorganization](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/05-the-reorganization/): Joseph Smith III's 1860 claim by lineage, and the "Prairie Saints" who rejected polygamy as their founding pivot
- [Polygamy, Doctrine to Liability: Assignment 1 Review](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/06-polygamy-and-assignment-one/): Federal pressure on the Utah church and the 1890 Manifesto, plus a working lab on Assignment 1 drafts
- [After the Manifesto](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/07-after-the-manifesto/): The fundamentalist split the 1890 Manifesto itself produced, and the road to Short Creek and the FLDS
- [Micro-Prophets and Small Splinters](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/08-micro-prophets/): The Cutlerites, the Bickertonites and the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) — the pattern repeated at small scale
- [What Each Branch Kept](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/09-comparative-doctrine/): Temple ordinances, priesthood succession theory and the Book of Abraham compared across branches
- [Who Owns Being the True Church](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/10-the-temple-lot-case/): The 1894 Temple Lot lawsuit, where legal ownership and theological legitimacy turned out to be different questions
- [Splintering Never Stopped](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/11-splintering-continues/): The Reorganization's own 1980s schism over women's ordination, and present-day independence groups
- [Capstone Presentations](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-ryschneider/sessions/12-capstone-presentations/): Final project presentations, and where The Schism Map is due