Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEMORY & COMMEMORATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES ***** 'Memory and Commemoration in the Middle Ages.' Memory and commemoration are in general terms described as intentions, attitudes, acts, and media that should prevent oblivion of individuals and communities (beyond death). In this way, they determine thought, emotions, and actions in fundamental ways. They possess unversal dimensions which go back to antiquity and are influential up to the present. Today, they are often driven out either into the atomistic sphere of individual remembrance, into the institutional realm of politics, or into the secluded world of museums. However, this suppression enhances their importance for our life. ***** Also offered as MDST 444.