Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Medieval Studies

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Credit Hours: 3

Description: ELEMENTARY LATIN I ***** Study of the fundamentals of Latin grammar with emphasis on acquisition of reading skills. ***** Also offered as LATI 101. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace

Department: Medieval Studies

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Credit Hours: 3

Description: ELEMENTARY LATIN II ***** Continuation of MDST 101. ***** Also offered as LATI 102. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace

Department: Medieval Studies

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Credit Hours: 3

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE CULTURE ***** This course will be concerned with art, architecture, and history of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. We will employ historical texts, literature, and illustrations of works of art, showing how historical documents and sources can illuminate the cultural context of art and architecture. ***** Also offered as HART 240 and HUMA 108. ***** Instructor(s): Manca; Neagley.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: PREHISTORIC TO GOTHIC ***** A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Paleolithic period through the 15th century. ***** Also offered as HART 101. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR IN THE MIDDLE AGES (FRESHMAN SEMINAR) ***** In the 1100s people began writing down stories of Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin, and the Knights of the round table using sophisticated techniques of literary composition. Today, these stories count among the great writings of Europe. This course examines the spectrum of medieval stories and histories of Arthur that arose in England, France, and Germany from the beginning to the age of printing, plus some recent revivals. ***** Also offered as GERM 126 and FSEM 126. ***** Instructor(s): Westphal.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I ***** Survey of the major philosophers and philosophical systems of ancient Greece, from Parmenides to the Stoics. ***** Also offered as PHIL 201 and CLAS 201. ***** Instructor(s): Morrison.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES ***** Introduction to European culture of the "Dark Ages," from the fall of Rome to the end of Viking invasions. Includes the use of historical, literary, artistic, and archaeological sources to trace changes in European material, spiritual, and cultural life between 300-1000 A.D. ***** Also offered as HIST 202. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION II : THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES ***** European culture from the year 1000 to the discovery of the Americas, which encompasses the Crusades, the "discovery of the individual," chivalry and chivalric literature, the Black Death, and the beginnings of the Age of Exploration. ***** Also offered as HIST 203. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERMEDIATE LATIN I: PROSE ***** Review of grammar and readings in Latin prose. ***** Also offered as LATI 201. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERMEDIATE LATIN II ***** Readings in Vergil's Aeneid. ***** Also offered as LATI 202. ***** Instructor(s): Wallace.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): MUSI 211 OR MUSI 317

Description: MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE ERAS ***** Introduction to the study of Western music history, with emphasis on music before 1600. Score reading ability required. ***** Also offered as MUSI 222. ***** Prerequisite(s): MUSI 211 or 317. ***** Instructor(s): Meconi.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL EMPIRES ***** Course will explore the political, social, and economic conceptions of the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires. Examining the self-perceptions of the Empire; the role of Roman tradition and languages; notions of (geographical) borders and nations; different constitutions in political representation, administrations, and economic organization. ***** Also offered as HIST 223. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL ART AND LITERATURE ***** This course will focus on major themes represented in a selected number of works in art and literature from the Middle Ages. ***** Also offered as HART 320. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE ***** Course will study relationships between Jewish and Christian communities within the context of Christian Europe. Topics will include settlement and demography; economics; legal status; hostility against Jews; family and the position of women; communal organizations; social diversity; and intellectual and spiritual achievements. Offered with additional work as MDST 357. ***** Also offered as HIST 257. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO MUHAMMAD ALI ***** Introduction to the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the beginning of the 19th century. Topics include conquests and classical Islamic states, Arabization, Jewish and Christian communities, impact of Turkic peoples, and the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on social, cultural, and political trends which shaped the region's history. ***** Also offered as HIST 281. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS ***** This course examines significant medieval European women authors from the 10th - 17th centuries, from Italy and Germany to France, England, Austria, and Spain. Using various techniques and media to access works, we will combine close reading with a focus on intersexuality. ***** Also offered as ENGL 311 and WGST 300. ***** Instructor(s): Chance Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY ***** Topics in history of philosophy from the fourth century B.C. through the fourteenth. ***** Also offered as PHIL 301. ***** Instructor(s): Morrison

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DANTE ***** A reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, with attention to the meaning of words, images, symbols, figures, structures, the meaning of the book, with reference to the political and religious controversies of the time. ***** Also offered as ENGL 310. ***** Instructor(s): Chance

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: OLD ENGLISH ***** This course will be a combination of Old English Grammar and readings in Old English. ***** Also offered as ENGL 324 and LING 312. ***** Instructor(s): Mitchell

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CULTURES ***** Interdisciplinary course exploring the literature, art, philosophy, history, music, and science of the Middle Ages, with films by Pasolini, Bergman, Einstein, Annaud, Vigne, and others, and highlighted by a medieval banquet. Webpage: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/cult.html ***** Also offered as ENGL 315. ***** Instructor(s): Chance.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE ***** A survey of the origins and development of the Arthurian legend from the earliest chronicles in the sixth century and later medieval French, Welsh, Irish, and English Arthurian poems to modern adaptations of Arthurian material, including films. Please consult http:\\www.english.rice.edu for additional information. ***** Also offered as ENGL 317 and WGST 301. ***** Instructor(s): Chance.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: J.R.R. TOLKIEN ***** This course will trace the tension between the exile (wraecca) and the community; otherness and heroism; identity and marginalization; and revenge and forgiveness. ***** Also offered as ENGL 318. ***** Instructor(s): Chance

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY ***** Also offered as HIST 521. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL EMPIRES ***** Enriched version of MDST 223. ***** Also offered as HIST 323. May not receive credit for both MDST 223 and MDST 323. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EARLY MEDIEVAL ART FROM 5TH CENTURY TO THE ROMANESQUE PERIOD ***** Study of medieval art, with emphasis in part one on the art and architecture produced in Europe during the Dark Ages (e.g. the work of the Visigoths, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Merovingians, Carolingians, and Ottonians); and in part 2 on the major revival of art and architecture in the medieval monasteries of the Romanesque period. ***** Also offered as HART 330. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOTHIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 1140-1300: THE AGE OF CATHEDRALS ***** Examination of the full array of sacred and secular art and architecture produced in the early and high gothic periods in northern Europe. Includes cathedral architecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscripts, and metalwork studied in relationship to the expansion of royal and Episcopal power. ***** Also offered as HART 331. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATE GOTHIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 1300-1500 ***** Examination of art and architecture produced in the late gothic period within three distinct settings-the court, the city, and the church. Includes private, public, and religious life as expressed in the objects, architecture, and decoration of the castle and palace, the house, city hall and hospital, and the chapel and parish church. ***** Also offered as HART 332. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MAPPING GERMAN CULTURE: COURTSHIP, LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY ***** The literature of the High Middle Ages is the first since antiquity to probe the hazards and potentials of romance between men and women, as well as single-sex friendship and love. This course will show how the literary ideal of love emerged in a society that was torn apart by war and rivalry. The poems and stories we will read belong to the treasures of medieval literature from the German lands. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EARLY MODERN EUROPE: HUMANISM AND EXPANSION ***** Exploration of major cultural developments in Western Europe from the rise of Italian humanism in the 14th century to European conquest and expansion in the 16th century. ***** Also offered as HIST 345. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: *Women and Gender Studies*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE ***** Enriched version of MDST 257. May not receive credit for both MDST 257 and HIST 357. ***** Also offered as HIST 357. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FROM AUGUSTINE TO DESCARTES ***** This course will survey key developments in Western thought (political theory, literature, philosophy, theology, and art) from the consolidation and institutionalization of Christian doctrine in the fourth and fifth centuries through the beginning of the "Scientific Revolution" in the 17th century. ***** Also offered as HIST 358. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MYTHOLOGIES ***** This course introduces students to a variety of work mythologies and mythmakers, from the beginnings to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Welsh, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, and modern (Borges, Philip Glass). ***** Also offered as ENGL 309 and WGST 368. ***** Instructor(s): Chance.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CLASSICAL ISLAMIC CULTURE ***** An introduction to the cultures and religions of the Islamic world from the 9th through the 14th centuries. Topics include Islamic law and theology, philosophy, ritual, Islamic science and medicine, classical Arabic literature, the impact of Arabo-Islamic culture on Jewish and Christian cultures of the Islamic world. ***** Also offered as HIST 382. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHRISTIANS & JEWS IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD ***** Examination of Christian and Jewish communities in the Islamic world from the rise of Islam to the Ottoman Empire. Includes the legal status of dhimmis (protected peoples), social and economic life, communal organization, interplay of religious laws, and political authority in these communities, as well as discussion of their modern historiography, a comparative study of Jewish communities in Christendom and Islam, and discussion of Muslim communities living under Christian rule in the Middle Ages. ***** Also offered as HIST 437.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERARY & HISTORICAL IMAGES OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN ***** Undergraduate version of MDST 411. Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with extant evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records. ***** Also offered as FREN 410 and WGST 410. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN ***** Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with eixtant evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records. ***** Also offered as FREN 510. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERATURE & CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES: SAINTS AND SINNERS ***** Study of medieval French works that depict saints and sinners with the goal of assessing the cultural structure that sets the limits of these labels. ***** Also offered as FREN 414. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE ***** Undergraduate version of FREN 515. Study of the Occitan and Old French poetry that served as the source of the kind of love that came to be called "armour courtois" in the 19th century. ***** Also offered as FREN 415. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell.

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES ***** A study of the major musical styles and composers of western art music before 1400 and their historical, cultural, and sociological contexts. ***** Offered every other year. ***** Also offered as MUSI 429. ***** Instructor(s): Meconi

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHITECTURE OF THE GOTIC CATHEDRAL FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ***** This course will focus on one of the most important contributions to the history of western architecture-- the Gothic cathedral. The course will approach the material from a number of different perspectives--the formal and technical development of Gothic architecture; the Medieval architect and the design of Gothic buildings; the social, economic, and political history of "big church" building in the Middle Ages; Gothic architecture as experience and metaphor; and the afterlife of the Gothic cathedral from Vasari to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. ***** Also offered as HART 431. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LITERATURE & CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES: KING ARTHUR ***** Examination of the origins of the legend of King Arthur and reasons for its popularity, particularly in literature of the French Middle Ages, but also in other medieval literatures of Western Europe. Includes discussion of the legend's influence in diverse areas even in modern times. ***** Also offered as FREN 416. ***** Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Nelson-Campbell

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN & GENDER IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD ***** Examination of some features of the legal position and social realities of men and women in the Islamic world, with emphasis on how boundaries of gender have traditionally been drawn. Includes the family and sexual ethics, the harem, polygyny, divorce, and eunuchs (who played an important role in both the military and in certain religious institutions). ***** Also offered as HIST 438 and WGST 455. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders

Department: Medieval Studies

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Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAN VAN EYCK: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION ***** Seminar and in-depth research on the art and historiography of the early Netherlandish painter Jan Van Eyck. ***** Also offered as HART 440. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ***** The course examines the life and works of 12th century polymath Hildegard of Bingen, including her achievements in music, poetry, religious thought, medicine, natural science, and linguistics. ***** Also offered as MUSI 724 and WGST 724. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Meconi

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEMORY & COMMEMORIZATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES ***** Memory and commemoration are the intentions, attitudes, acts, and media that should prevent oblivion of individuals and communities (beyond death). Possessing universal dimensions that go back to antiquity, in the present they are often driven into individual remembrance, the institutional realm of politics, or the secluded world of museums. ***** Also offered as HIST 444. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL WOMEN ***** Many aspects of today's life for women go back to developments in Medieval times. Seminar explores the freedom and restrictions of women from different religions, queens and nobles, merchants to prostitutes, in families and monasteries. Participation includes a trip to an exhibition in Germany. Course fulfills requirement for MDST majors. ***** Also offered as HIST 446. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE AGE OF CRUSADES ***** Seminar will discuss characteristics of the Crusades against Muslims, Jews, pagans, Mongols, heretics, schismatics, and political enemies and explore to what extent the concepts of "holy war" and new expressions of religious beliefs impacted fundamentalism creating new possibilities for globalization in medieval Europe. Discussions will include primary and secondary sources. ***** Also offered as HIST 447. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BOSCH & BRUEGEL ***** The Sacred and Profane in the Paintings of Bosch and Bruegel. The obscene, the grotesque, the humorous, and the bizarre were frequently depicted alongside sacred religious scenes in the margins of late Medieval manuscripts or the periphery of Gothic cathedral facade sculpture. By the sixteenth century, this fantastic world had migrated to the center of religious paintings, especially in the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This course will examine the juxtapositions and the complex meanings of sacred and profane imagery within the context of sixteenth- century religious and social life. ***** Also offered as HART 441. ***** Instructor(s): Neagley

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: COLLEGIUM ***** Performance of music up to the early 17th century. Permission of instructor. Does not count as chamber music. **** Also offered as MUSI 436. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Meconi Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR IN ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY ***** Also offered as PHIL 501. ***** Instructor(s): Morrison

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ILLUMINATED MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS ***** The study of illuminated music manuscripts from the Middle Ages through the mid-sixteenth century, with discussion of changed in production, design, decoration, and function throughout this period. Non-music manuscripts will also be examined in order to place music collections in the context of contemporary manuscript culture. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Also offered as MUSI 726. ***** Instructor(s): Meconi

Department: Medieval Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY ***** Research seminar on selected issues, subject or themes in medieval history. Topics vary. ***** Also offered as HIST 488. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.