Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2007-2008
MDST 101 - ELEMENTARY LATIN I
Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN I
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Study of the fundamentals of Latin grammar with emphasis on acquisition of reading skills. Cross-list: LATI 101.
MDST 102 - ELEMENTARY LATIN II
Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN II
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Continuation of MDST 101. Cross-list: LATI 102.
MDST 104 - CASE STU IN ANCNT & MED ARCH
Long Title: CASE STUDIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course offers an introduction to the history of Western art and architecture through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private buildings in antiquity and the Middle Ages: from the Parthenon to a Roman house, Carnavan Castle to Chartres Cathedral. Topics explored throughout the course include the construction of imperial authority, ritual and the formation of space, and the relationship between structure and design. Cross-list: ARCH 104, HART 104.
MDST 108 - LATE MEDIEV & RENAIS CULTURE
Long Title: ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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 We will employ historical texts, literature, and illustrations of works of art, showing how historical documents and sources can illuminate the cultural context of art and architecture. Cross-list: HART 240, HUMA 108.
MDST 111 - INTRO TO HIST OF WESTERN ART I
Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: PREHISTORIC TO GOTHIC
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Paleolithic period through the 15th century. Cross-list: HART 101.
MDST 126 - LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR
Long Title: THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es):
Freshman
Description: 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. Cross-list: FSEM 126, GERM 126.
MDST 201 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I
Long Title: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Survey of the major philosophers and philosophical systems of ancient Greece, from Parmenides to the Stoics. Cross-list: CLAS 201, PHIL 201.
MDST 202 - INTRO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION I
Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION I: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HIST 202.
MDST 203 - INTRO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION II
Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION II: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HIST 203.
MDST 211 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN I: PROSE
Long Title: INTERMEDIATE LATIN I: PROSE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Review of grammar and readings in Latin prose. Cross-list: LATI 201.
MDST 212 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN II
Long Title: INTERMEDIATE LATIN II
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Readings in Vergil's Aeneid. Cross-list: LATI 202.
MDST 222 - MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ERAS
Long Title: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ERAS
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: Introduction to the study of Western music history, with emphasis on music before 1600. Score reading ability required. Cross-list: MUSI 222.
MDST 223 - MEDIEVAL EMPIRES
Long Title: MEDIEVAL EMPIRES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HIST 223.
MDST 230 - MEDVL ART & LITERATURE
Long Title: MEDIEVAL ART AND LITERATURE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course will focus on major themes represented in a selected number of works in art and literature from the Middle Ages. Cross-list: HART 230.
MDST 257 - JEWS & CHRISTIANS-MEDIEVAL EUR
Long Title: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Credit may not be received for both MDST 257 and MDST 357. Cross-list: HIST 257, Equivalency: MDST 357.
MDST 281 - PREMODERN MIDDLE EAST HISTORY
Long Title: THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO SULAYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Introduction to the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the middle of the 16th 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, political, and religious trends which shaped the region's history. Cross-list: HIST 281.
MDST 300 - MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course will examine the most significant Medieval European women authors from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. We will combine close reading witha focus on intertextuality to recover a feminized literary tradition. Cross-list: ENGL 311, SWGS 300.
MDST 301 - ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Long Title: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Topics in history of philosophy from the fourth century B.C. through the fourteenth. Cross-list: CLAS 301, PHIL 301.
MDST 308 - THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY
Long Title: THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Study of the social, religious, and political history of the Roman world from the Diocletian to the rise of Islam, with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of the Mediterranean world and the formation of Byzantine society in the Greek east. Cross-list: HIST 308.
MDST 310 - DANTE
Long Title: DANTE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A close reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, with attention to the meaning of words, images, symbols, figures, structures, and the epic itself, with reference to the political/religious controversies of the time in Florence, Italy,a nd medieval Europe. Cross-list: ENGL 310.
MDST 311 - OLD ENGLISH
Long Title: OLD ENGLISH
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course will be a combination of Old English Grammar and readings in Old English.
MDST 313 - BEOWULF
Long Title: BEOWULF
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A reading of the beginning, the death and the funeral of Beowulf in Old English. Recommended prerequisite(s): Old English Grammar or instructor permission.
MDST 315 - MEDIEVAL CULTURES THROUGH FILM
Long Title: MEDIEVAL CULTURES THROUGH FILM
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 4
Description: Interdisciplinary course exploring the literature, art, philosophy, history, music, and science of the Middle Ages, with films by Pasolini, Bergman, Dreyer, Annaud, Vigne, and others, and highlighted by a medieval banquet. Cross-list: ENGL 315.
Course URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/med_cult.html
MDST 316 - CHAUCER
Long Title: CHAUCER
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Chaucer and his literary cultural, and philosphical background. Readings include minor poems, a dream vision, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Cross-list: ENGL 316, SWGS 305.
Course URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/chaucer3.html
MDST 317 - ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
Long Title: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: ENGL 317.
Course URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/arthurian.htm
MDST 318 - J.R.R. TOLKIEN & MIDDLE AGES
Long Title: J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND THE MIDDLE AGES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course will examine Tolkien's awareness of medieval works such as Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, old English Riddles, Sir Galvain and the Green Knight, and the Finnish Kalevala in his scholarship and fiction, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the Silmarillion. Cross-list: ENGL 318.
MDST 320 - DIRECTED READING MEDIEVAL STDY
Long Title: DIRECTED READING IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1 TO 3
Description: Student works one-on-one with an individual faculty member on a topic directly related to Medieval Studies. Instructor Permission Required.
MDST 323 - MEDIEVAL EMPIRES
Long Title: MEDIEVAL EMPIRES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Enriched version of MDST 223. May not receive credit for both MDST 223 and MDST 323. Cross-list: HIST 323.
MDST 330 - EARLY MEDIEVAL ART
Long Title: EARLY MEDIEVAL ART
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HART 330.
MDST 331 - GOTH ART&ARCH EUROPE 1140-1300
Long Title: GOTHIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHERN EUROPE, 1140-1300: THE AGE OF CATHEDRALS
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HART 331.
MDST 332 - LATE GOTHIC ART&ARCH N. EUROPE
Long Title: ART
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HART 332.
MDST 335 - COURTSHIP, LOVE, & MARRIAGE
Long Title: MA COURTSHIP, LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: GERM 330, HUMA 330, SWGS 330.
MDST 345 - RENAISSANCE EUROPE
Long Title: RENAISSANCE EUROPE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HIST 345.
MDST 357 - JEWS & CHRISTIANS-MEDIEVAL EUR
Long Title: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Enriched version of MDST 257. May not receive credit for both MDST 257 and HIST 357. Cross-list: HIST 357, Equivalency: MDST 257.
MDST 358 - EARLY EUROPE INTELLECTUAL HIST
Long Title: EARLY EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FROM AUGUSTINE TO DESCARTES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HIST 358.
MDST 368 - MYTHOLOGIES
Long Title: MYTHOLOGIES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: The interdisciplinary course introduces students to world The interdisciplinary course introduces students to world mythologies, mythmakers, and their cultures, from the mythologies, mythmakers, and their cultures, from the beginnings to the modern period. Include mythologies: beginnings to the modern period. Include mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, and modern Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, and modern (Glass Borges, Whale Rider). (Glass Borges, Whale Rider). Cross-list: ENGL 309, SWGS 368.
Course URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/myth.htm
MDST 370 - INTRO TO TRAD CHINESE POETRY
Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO TRADITIONAL CHINESE POETRY
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course seeks to decode enchanting features of traditional Chinese poetry through examining the transformation of poetic genres, the interaction between poetic creation and political, social and culture changes, and the close association of poetry with art. Thus, this course also serves to understand Chinese culture and history through poetic perspectives. All readings in English translation. Cross-list: ASIA 330, CHIN 330.
MDST 375 - INTRO CLASCL CHINESE NOVELS
Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL CHINESE LITERATURE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Examination of the basic characteristics of classical Chinese novels, primarily through six important works from the 16th to 18th centuries: Water Margin, Monkey, Golden Lotus, Scholars, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Dream of the Red Chamber. Cross-list: ASIA 335, CHIN 335.
MDST 379 - WOMEN IN CHINESE LITERATURE
Long Title: WOMEN IN CHINESE LITERATURE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course examines women's roles in Chinese Literature as writers, readers, and characters, focusing particularly on the tension between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural experiences inscribed on the female body and how, in the process, women have contrarily gendered patriarchal culture into their own. It will also touch on Chinese women's incorporation of the Western Tradition. Cross-list: ASIA 399, SWGS 399.
MDST 382 - CLASSICAL ISLAMIC CULTURES
Long Title: CLASSICAL ISLAMIC CULTURES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HIST 382.
MDST 402 - MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN
Long Title: MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: An introduction to the phonology and morphology of Middle High German, such as will prepare students to read 'Tristan', 'Parzifal', and the 'Niebelungenlied', as well as the great lyric poets of that period. Emphasis will be on pronunciation and grammatical distinctions between Middle High and Modern High German as well as on the diverging semantic developments of the two vocabularies.
MDST 404 - THE LANG AND LIT OF FRANCE
Long Title: BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF FRANCE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course includes an external history of the French language, an examination of hagiographic literature and the chanson de geste in their cultural and artistic contexts, as well as bibliographic component to acquaint the students with library tools available for research emphasizing medieval resources but not excluding those for later periods. Students will acquire a reading knowledge of Old French. Course taught in French. Cross-list: FREN 404. Recommended: Prerequisite(s): At least two upper-level French courses.
MDST 411 - LIT & HIST IMAGE MED WOMAN
Long Title: THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor
Description: Comparison and contrast of the presentation of the medieval woman in literature with evidence of historical women from contemporary documents and records. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: FREN 510.
MDST 425 - COURTLY LOV MEDV FRANCE (ENR)
Long Title: COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor
Description: 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 "amour courtois" in the 19th century.
MDST 427 - TOPICS IN EARLY MUSIC
Long Title: TOPICS IN EARLY MUSIC
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description:
MDST 429 - MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Long Title: MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A study of the major musical styles and composers of western art music before 1400 and their historical, cultural, and sociological contexts. Cross-list: MUSI 429.
MDST 431 - ARCH OF GOTHIC CATHEDRAL
Long Title: ARCHITECTURE OF THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HART 431.
MDST 434 - FROM BEOWULF TO THE BT
Long Title: FROM BEOWULF TO THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY: ART AND LITERATURE OF THE ANGLO-SAXON WORLD
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This interdisciplinary course will focus on major literary and artistic works produced in the British Isles from the end of Roman Britain to the Norman conquest. We will examine the intersection of pictorial and textual themes around important works such as Beowulf and the ship burial at Sutton Hoo or the Song of Roland the epic pictorial narrative of the Battle of Hastings in the Bayeux Tapestry. Cross-list: HART 434.
MDST 436 - LIT & CULTURE MID AGES
Long Title: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES: KING ARTHUR
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor
Description: 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. Cross-list: FREN 416.
MDST 438 - MEDIEVAL ISLAM WOMEN & GENDER
Long Title: WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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). Cross-list: HIST 438, SWGS 455.
MDST 440 - JAN VAN EYCK
Long Title: JAN VAN EYCK: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Seminar and in-depth research on the art and historiography of the early Netherlandish painter Jan Van Eyck. Cross-list: HART 440.
MDST 444 - MEMORY IN MIDDLE AGES
Long Title: MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HIST 444.
MDST 446 - MEDIEVAL WOMEN
Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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 may also include a trip to significant sights in Germany. Cross-list: HIST 446.
MDST 447 - THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES
Long Title: THE AGE OF CRUSADES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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 created fundamentalism and new possibilities for globalization in medieval Europe. Discussions will include primary and secondary sources. Cross-list: HIST 447.
MDST 449 - CITY LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Long Title: CITY LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Medieval cities provided as many opportunities for political, economic, social, and religious enterprises as their modern counterparts. Housing a variety of religious communities, these cultural centers differed profoundly across Europe and the Islamic world. This seminar will discuss these characteristics and explore them on a 10-day trip to Germany.
MDST 451 - BOSCH & BRUEGEL
Long Title: BOSCH AND BRUEGEL
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Cross-list: HART 441.
MDST 456 - COLLEGIUM
Long Title: COLLEGIUM
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1
Description: Performance of music up to the early 17th century. Does not count as chamber music. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.
MDST 478 - MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Long Title: MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Special Topics in medieval Europe comparative literature. Topics for 2006-07 was "THE MEDIEVAL DREAM AND VISION." Repeatable for Credit.
MDST 481 - ANCIENT&MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Long Title: SEMINAR IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description:
MDST 486 - ILLUMINATED MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS
Long Title: ILLUMINATED MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: MUSI 726.
MDST 488 - TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Long Title: TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Department: Medieval Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Research seminar on selected issues, subject or themes in medieval history. Topics vary. Cross-list: HIST 488. Repeatable for Credit.