Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ROMANCING RELIGION: NARRATIVES OF THE SACRED

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines links between religious experience and romance narrative taking the grail as a focal point. We start with grail legends in the middle ages, explore historical associations of the grail with medieval Christianity, and end with quest narratives and grail motifs in modern occultism, fiction and film. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 100, RELI 100.

Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN I

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: ELEMENTARY LATIN II

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LATI 101 OR MDST 101 OR MDEM 101

Description: Continuation of LATI 101 and MDEM 101. Graduate students require permission of instructor. Cross-list: LATI 102.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH MYSTICISM

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Surveys the historical development and central themes of Jewish mysticism. From the bible to ancient mysticism to medieval Kabbalah to modern expressions, we will critically reflection the ideas such as divine presence in the world, the cultivation of insight and magical powers, contemplative and restorative practices, and charismatic authority. Cross-list: RELI 104.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of major medieval Christian thinkers. Primary focus on high and late middle ages (12th-15th century), with some attention to spiritual and apocalyptic writings and dissenting thought in this period. Cross-list: RELI 105.

Long Title: ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: PREHISTORIC TO GOTHIC

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from Antiquity through the 15th century. Students will also attend a one-hour weekly tutorial with a teaching assistant. Cross-list: CLAS 102, HART 101.

Long Title: MYSTICISM THROUGHOUT THE AGES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the historical development of mysticism in Western thought, placing the Christian experiential traditions in comparison with Jewish developments. Through mystical texts, we will explore key concepts, such as visions of God and spiritual journeys, as developed during late antiquity, the middle-ages, and into the early modern period. Cross-list: RELI 116.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATIONS

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Focusing on the period between 300-1500 CE, the course will survey political institutions, society, and culture in medieval European, Byzantine, and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Christianization of Europe, the rise of Islam, the Crusades, scholastic theology, persecution of heretics, bubonic plague, and the rise of centralized monarchies. Cross-list: HIST 120.

Long Title: THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In the 1100's 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. Taught in English. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 126, GERM 126.

Long Title: THE BODY AND THE COSMOS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What shaped medieval Christian notions of the body? How did common experiences of pain, sexuality, childbirth, and death refract the grasp of larger concepts - God, time, and the cosmos? This seminar will explore the issues connecting body to cosmos through close reading of medieval literary, mystical, and autobiographical texts. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 171, RELI 171.

Long Title: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines the political, institutional, military, and cultural development of the societies that successively dominated the "Middle Sea" from AD 500-1500 in Europe and the Islamic World. It highlights the Mediterranean legacy of commercial, cultural, and religious exchange and coexistence, as well as its history of confrontation and warfare. Cross-list: HIST 205.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE LATIN I: PROSE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: INTERMEDIATE LATIN II

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LATI 201 OR MDST 211 OR MDEM 211

Description: Readings in Virgil. Cross-list: LATI 202.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ERAS

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL LATIN SAINTS' LIVES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LATI 101 OR MDEM 101 OR MDST 101) AND (LATI 102 OR MDST 102 OR MDEM 102)

Description: This course will introduce selected lives from St. Anthony to St. Francis of Assisi which will be read in Latin; grammar review, as necessary. Focus will be on continuity and change in the Hagiographic tradition and representation of saint in relation to community. Intermediate Level Latin. Cross-list: LATI 205, RELI 254.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL POPULAR CHRISTIANITY

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: For much of the Middle Ages, literacy was a luxury that ordinary people could not afford. How could peasants participate in Christian traditions? Course surveys devotional practices engaged by the laity, including penance, pilgrimage, plays, charms and spells, as well as traditions of lay interaction with dead saints and ghosts. Cross-list: RELI 271.

Long Title: THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO SULAYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

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 that shaped the region's history. Cross-list: HIST 281.

Long Title: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics in the history of philosophy from the 4th century B.C. through the 14th century. Graduate students require permission of instructor. Credit may not be received for both MDEM 301 and MDEM 481. Cross-list: CLAS 301, PHIL 301. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for MDEM 301 if student has credit for MDEM 481. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PAIN, ECSTASY AND EMBODIMENT IN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From exorcism to other worldly visions, we experience religion as embodied human beings. This course explores embodied religion by focusing on connections between pain and transcendence, looking at medieval Christianity as well as contemporary and cross-cultural examples. Cross-list: RELI 305.

Long Title: THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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 Diocletian to the rise of Islam, with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of the Mediterranean world and the emergence of early medieval societies in the east and west. Cross-list: HIST 308.

Long Title: AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Thematic coverage of developments throughout the continent from the Lower Paleolithic to medieval times, with emphasis on food production, metallurgy and the rise of cities and complex societies. Cross-list: ANTH 312.

Long Title: TOPICS IN OLD ENGLISH

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A various topics course that includes a wide range of reading of poems, prose, materials from chronicle, myth, and legend. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Cross-list: ENGL 312. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: BEOWULF FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A close reading of Beowulf with attention to Anglo-Saxon culture and Old English poetics. Cross-list: ENGL 313.

Long Title: DIVINE SEX: GENDER AND DIVINITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine key medieval works, with special attention to women's writing, focusing on gender construction in mysticism and theology. Primary readings will include works by Hildegard of BinGen, Birgtta of Sweden, Margery Kempe, and others. Cross-list: RELI 314, SWGS 314.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL CULTURES THROUGH FILM

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: An interdisciplinary course exploring the literature, art, philosophy, history, music, and science of the Middle Ages, with films by Pasolini, Bergman, Dreyer, Einstein, Annaud, Vigne, and others, and highlighted by a medieval banquet. Cross-list: ENGL 315.

Long Title: CHAUCER

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Middle English, and the political and cultural climate of the fourteenth century. Cross-list: ENGL 316, SWGS 305.

Long Title: ARTHURIAN LITERATURE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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, SWGS 301.

Long Title: J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL ROMANCE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that examines the development of romance as a genre during the medieval period. Cross-list: ENGL 314.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: COEXISTENCE IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course explores the history of the Iberian Peninsula from late Antiquity to the early 16th century, focusing on coexistence and conflict between medieval Spain's three religious communities - Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Cross-list: HIST 324.

Long Title: EUROPEAN FRONTIER SOCIETIES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Courses examines the military, political, social and cultural developments on the European frontiers between 500-1500 AD. Topics include colonization and conquest, crusades and Spanish Reconquista, piracy, slavery, encounters with native peoples, spread of Christianity, medieval colonial regimes, map-making and cultural exchanges. Cross-list: HIST 327.

Long Title: EARLY MEDIEVAL ART

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Early Medieval Art from the 5th Century to the Romanesque period. This course begins with a study of the art and architecture of the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Lombards, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Franks, and Merovingians, and the transformation of the Roman World through new Germanic, Barbarian, and Christian forces. The second part of the course considers the cultural Renaissance of the Carolingian and Ottonian Periods under rulers such as Charlemagne and Otto III. The last third of the course focuses on themes of pilgrimage, relics, crusades and the emergence of new monumental tradition in art and architecture during the Romanesque Period. Cross-list: HART 330.

Long Title: GOTHIC ART

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the full array of sacred art and architecture produced in the early and high gothic periods in northern Europe. Includes cathedral architecture, sculpture, stained glass, manuscripts, and metalwork studies in relationship to the expansion of royal and Episcopal power. Cross-list: HART 331.

Long Title: ART OF THE COURTS

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of art in northern Europe from Jan van Eyck to Peter Bruegel. Cross-list: HART 340.

Long Title: MASTERS OF THE BAROQUE ERA

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the works of the greatest painters and sculptors in Europe during the Baroque period. Includes Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, Poussin, Claude, and Velazquez. Cross-list: HART 343.

Long Title: RENAISSANCE EUROPE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How did the recovery of ancient texts shape the discovery of new worlds and perhaps the destruction of the old? This course explores major developments in western Europe from the rise of Italian humanism in the fourteenth century to the imperial expansion and devastating conflicts of the 1500s and 1600s. Cross-list: HIST 345.

Long Title: DEMONS, MENTAL ILLNESS AND MEDICINE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Treats complex connections between religious beliefs/practices and formulation of human psychology in western tradition, through a historical reckoning with demonology. Consider the way demons are represented -- from semi-corporeal beings to marks of mental illness -- by looking at texts from the ancient world to modern psychiatry. Cross-list: RELI 350.

Long Title: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN MEDIEVAL VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on the diverse and often unexpected forms of medieval representation that intersect with science, medicine, and natural history: maps, diagrams, images from health and surgery guides, encyclopedic compendia of animals and plants, astrolabes. Optics and theories of vision, and the ideals of naturalism and perspective, will be examined alongside issues such as function, cultural exchange, and intellectual authority. Cross-list: HART 350.

Long Title: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will focus on Jewish-Christian coexistence in medieval Europe. Will examine the Jews' legal status in Christendom, their communal life, economic activities, intellectual achievements, while also focusing on the complex dynamics of Jewish-Christian interaction, and the shifting patterns of persecution and acceptance. Cross-list: HIST 357.

Long Title: THE RISE OF CAPITALISM AND LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ART

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore how the rise of capitalism affected late medieval and early modern art. It will explore depictions of avarice, charity, and poverty; representations of shopping; how the rise of the art market affected art production; images of different socio-economic classes, and the material culture of money. Cross-list: HART 364.

Long Title: CENTRAL ASIAN CONQUEST EMPIRES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines the rise of Chingis Khan and Mongol Steppe society (religion, role of women, cultural exchange, strategies of violence, imperial ideologies) as well as successor empires: Yuan, Golden Horde, IIkhanid and eventually that ruled by Timur/Taerlane, who reproduced Mongol imperial power in Central Asia and India. Cross-list: HIST 364.

Long Title: MYTHOLOGIES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to world mythologies, mythmakers and their cultures, from the beginnings to the modern period. Included mythologies: Babylonian, Sumerian, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Irish, Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Finnish, Mayan, Hopi, modern (Glass, Borges, 'Whale Rider'). Cross-list: ENGL 309, SWGS 368.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL FRONTIERS

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course focuses on multiple frontiers within medieval Western Eurasia. It not only explores the confrontations between societies, but also emphasizes the transformative nature of these cross-cultural contacts. Cross-list: HIST 368.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO TRADITIONAL CHINESE POETRY

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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 cultural 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.

Long Title: CHINESE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, we will study how various artistic styles developed in historical, social, and cultural contexts from the ancient period to the present day. Through the careful examination of architecture, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, ceramics, bronze, and film, students will gain a deeper understanding of Chinese art and visual culture. Cross-list: ASIA 372, HART 372.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL CHINESE NOVELS

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: EAST & WEST: MEDIEVAL VISUAL CULTURE IN CHINA AND NORTHERN EUROPE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores a series of issues that are critically important for the medieval art of both China and northern Europe. Topics include materials and techniques; public and private art: commerce, technology and prints; art and motion; archaeology; paradise and hell; maps and space; the gaze; erotica; patronage; and multiculturalism. Cross-list: ASIA 376, HART 376.

Long Title: THE AGE OF REMBRANDT

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century art, including major masters, such as Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vermeer, and major developments, such as the rise of still life, genre, and landscape painting. Cross-list: HART 378.

Long Title: WOMEN IN CHINESE LITERATURE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: THE REFORMATION & ITS RESULTS

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Theology and church-state issues from 16th-century Reformation to 17th-century; medieval background; Luther and Calvin, the Catholic Reformation; religious wars; Protestant orthodoxy; Pietist spirituality; Puritanism; and calls for toleration. Credit may not be received for both RELI 286 and RELI 391/MDEM 391. Cross-list: RELI 391. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for MDEM 391 if student has credit for RELI 286.

Long Title: MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: BEGINNINGS OF THE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF FRANCE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

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): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: THE LITERARY AND HISTORICAL IMAGE OF THE MEDIEVAL WOMAN

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the language, prose and shorter poems. Cross-list: ENGL 412.

Long Title: BEOWULF IN OLD ENGLISH

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 412 OR MDST 412 OR MDEM 412 or permission of instructor

Description: A course in the study of Beowulf in Old English. Cross-list: ENGL 413. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: COURTLY LOVE IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312

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. Cross-list: FREN 415. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor.

Long Title: TOPICS IN EARLY MUSIC

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE OF THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Department: Medieval/Early Modern 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.

Long Title: THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY AND THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on the most important secular work from the middle ages - a 230 foot long embroidery depicting the Battle of Hastings. This is a team-taught course that will examine both visual narrative of the tapestry and literary narrative in works such as the "Chanson de Roland," and the "Lais" and "Fables of Marie de France." Cross-list: FREN 433, HART 433.

Long Title: SEEING SEX IN EUROPEAN ART, 1400-1700

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the visual history of sexuality from 1400-1700. It will explore how imagery structured sexual desire; the role of erotic sacred art; the rise of pornography; the intersection of spatial topography and sexuality; the linkage of licit and illicit sexualities; and the sexuality of artist and patrons. Cross-list: HART 434, SWGS 434.

Long Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE, 1400-1700

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The art of Europe was never the product of a single culture working in isolation. This seminar will explore the multicultural aspects of medieval and early modern Europe by focusing on the visual culture of groups who defined themselves or are today defined by nationality, race, or religion. Cross-list: HART 435, HIST 443.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES: KING ARTHUR

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312

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. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Completion of one 300-level course or permission of instructor

Long Title: VISUAL CULTURE OF MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3 TO 4

Description: This seminar explores the rich visual culture associated with medieval pilgrimage between the 4th and 15th centuries. The experience of pilgrimage was shaped by symbols, images, and places encountered along the routes to sites of sacred significance, especially the Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago, and Canterbury. We will examine the theological, practical, visual, and experiential aspects of pilgrimage in Western Europe and the Holy Land as understood through material culture. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: FREN 437, HART 437.

Long Title: COLLEGIUM MUSICUM

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Studio

Credit Hours: 2

Description: Performance of music up to the early 17th century. Does not count as chamber music. Instructor permission required. Repeatable for credit. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: MUSI 436. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ENGLISH SPIRITUALITY AFTER HENRY VIII: PROTESTANT, CATHOLIC, OR ANGLICAN?

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Reformation's aftermath explored through key topics, texts in spiritual practice, e.g.: ecclesiastical discipline; secularization; stylized and free-form intersections of English time with Christian eternity; King James Bible; Book of Common Prayer; "saintly revolution;" Thomas Cranmer; William Laud; William Shakespeare; Lancelot Andrewes; John Donne; J.H. Newman; hymnody; C.S. Lewis; T.S. Eliot. Cross-list: RELI 462.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL STUDIES

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Special Topics in medieval Europe comparative literature. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Department: Medieval/Early Modern Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics in the history of philosophy from the 4th century B.C. through the 14th century. Credit may not be received for both MDST 301 and MDST 481. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for MDEM 481 if student has credit for CLAS 301/MDEM 301/MDST 301/PHIL 301.