Courses for Spring 2010
FL
3393
Dante's
Poetic
Vision
TTH 9:30
AM
A
study of the
works of Dante in translation.
TTH
9:30-11.
The social and spiritual centerpiece of medieval European life, the
Gothic
cathedral was also one of the greatest multimedia creations of its age.
The
cathedral is a springing for our investigation of the rich
architectural and
artistic traditions of the high and late Middle Ages in Europe.
W 3-6
Team-taught
between Perkins School of Theology and Art History, this course
examines the
mutual influences and conflicts between Christians, Jews, and Muslims
in
medieval Spain as recorded in their religious texts and artistic
traditions..
TTH
2:00
We will read of ancient warriors and speaking crosses, exotic monsters
and monastic students, and we'll do so in the original Old English.
Students will learn the language spoken and written in England over a
thousand years ago, and gain an introduction to the multifaceted
culture of the Anglo-Saxons.
This course focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in relation to historical contexts, medieval poetics, and contemporary criticism
SPANISH 5310 Spanish Literature Before 1700
TTh12:30
An introduction to Spanish prose, drama, lyric, and narrative poetry through the Golden Age.
HIST 3351-001 Life in the Meideval World: 1095-1350
M 2pm
A survey of the political, social, and intellectual structures that characterized the civilization of Western Europe between the First Crusade and the Black Death.
HIST 5392-001 The Confessions and Autobiography in the West
TTh 2pm
A reading and discussion seminar focusing on the first autobiography in the history of human thought, St. Augustine's Confessions.
SOSC 6319-701-LEC(6095) The Medieval City
W 6:30
The course examines medieval Europe through its rich and complex urban tradition keeping in mind not only the "City of Stone" but een the "Living City" examin ghte medieval city in teh Mediterranena and Northern Europe through the 15th Century. How commerce, pilgrimage, universities, guilds and plague set up preconditions for Western capitalist economies.
RELI 3326 Intro to the New Testament
TTh 3:30pm
An introduction to the writings of the New Testament, the formative events, and the persons who played leading roles in the origin of Christianity.
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