ENGL 3329

The World of King Arthur

MTWThF 4-6PM, 6-8pm (summer 1)

Wheeler, Schwartz

Study of Britain's greatest native hero and one of the world's most compelling story stocks: the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

HIST 3350

Life in the Medieval World 306-1095AD

MTWThF 12-2PM (summer 1)

Adams

A survey of the political, religious, and cultural history of Western Europe from Constantine the Great to the First Crusade.

SOSC 6102

Traveling the Middle Ages

W6:30-9:30PM (summer 2)

DeSantis

Who can tell that it's easy traveling only by cars and planes?  Discover how even during the Middle Ages, humanity did not cease to move for several reasons.  On foot or by mule, by wagon or by boat, the men crossed the continent far and wide from north to south and from east to west, reaching the Far East, the sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.  The idea of travel is deeply linked with this Era.  The Middle Ages indeed started with the massive migration of the German tribes into the Roman Empire boundaries and ended with the first geographical travels paid by Spanish and Portuguese Kings.  During the long millennium they never stopped and kept on moving, driven by different reasons: to pray, to sell, to discover, to migrate, to work, to fight and conquest, to convert, to escape from persecutions.

ARHS 1303

Intro To Western Art I – Ancient & Medieval

TTh 11AM-12:30PM

Patton

Prehistoric through Medieval. An introduction in lecture form to the fundamentals of art history. Includes observations of historical styles, techniques, and media of cultures.

ARHS 4320

“Convivencia” Seminar in Medieval Art

W 2-5PM

Patton

The art and architecture produced by the Christians, Jews and Muslims of Iberia during the 10th through 15th centuries, studying the cultural contacts, conflicts and compromises that affected each culture’s artistic traditions and contributed the diverse heritage of what now is called Spanish art.

FL 3391

Early Italian Humanism

TTH 9:30-11AM

Alvarez

Medieval interpretations of allegory, defense of secular literature by Dante and Boccaccio, early Humanists, including Petrarch, and the Civic Humanism of Florence beginning with Salutati and resulting in Machiavelli.

HIST 3332/ENGL3370/CF (TBA)

Majesty, Memory, and Mourning in the Middle Ages

T 2-5PM

Adams & Wheeler

This course focuses on history, literature, and art of the later Middle Ages. It is held in conjunction with the Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition of the 15th-century mourners from the Dijon tomb of John the Fearless. Most meetings will be held at the Dallas Museum of Art (transport provided) and several guest lecturers will join the course to discuss the rich international styles of late medieval culture.

HIST 3350-001

Life in the Medieval World 306-1095AD

TR 2-3:20PM

Adams

This course moves from the dissolving order of late Roman culture to the institution of feudalism, discussing both central and peripheral experiences.

HX 6305

Christian Heritage I

 TTh 3-4:30PM, W6:30-8:30PM

Karras & Cardoza-Orlandi

An introductory study of modes of piety, patterns of thought, and styles of practice that have shaped and reshaped the Christian heritage in its major variations, from its beginnings to the present. Six term hours, three hours per term.

HX 8321

History of Christian Doctrine I

 T8:30-11:30AM

Bruce Marshall

A cumulative examination of the basic doctrines and theologies that have shaped the Christian tradition. In the fall term the course will survey the formation of the patristic, Byzantine, and medieval Western theological traditions.

HX 8337

Sex/Gender in Greek and Latin Patristic Thought

M 6-8PM

Karras

This course will compare and contrast patristic views of human sexual differentiation and the construction of gender by examining and critically evaluating both primary sources and modern scholarly works.

SOSC 7318

NEW!: Man and Food: History of Nourishment through the Middle Ages

T 6:30-9:30 (fall)

DeSantis

The course focuses on the role and the prominence of food during history, mainly concerning the Middle Ages.  We will cover the whole historical period casting a glance at the Ancient Times and the Modern Age, focusing on the Mediterranean, West and East Europe.  Even if it might seem a nontraditional approach to the history it will be a savory food for thought good for understanding the past civilizations.  The classes pay attention on the general lines of food history on different levels: economic, social, cultural.  Even if the main focus will be on Europe during the Middle Age, the classes will be open to other geographical areas to confront different experiences and customs, origin of foods and cultural mixtures.