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Heresy, orthodoxy, and religious identity from the early to the late Middle Ages. Focus on western European persons and movements that were deemed heretical. Readings in Latin; discussion of current research and methodological issues.
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Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the revival of monumental building to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Explores the creative tension between the impulse to originality and the authority of classical models in the search for new art forms. Emphasis on relatively few works considered in their totality (architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts) as experiential wholes; and on the plurality of geographical and cultural contexts (Italy, Germany, France, and Spain).
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A survey of the main outlines of continental European constitutional and legal history from the fall of the Roman Empire to the "Rise of absolutism" at the beginning of the 17th century. Focuses on the main expressions of European legal culture over this long period of time. In each period an effort is made to relate the types of law produced to the social, political, and religious history of the period.
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A survey of the ideas and events that shaped the structure of English law and governance from the Anglo-Saxon invasions to the Reformation Parliament. Topics include the formation of the kingdom of England, the emergence of institutions of royal governance, the relations between church and state, the development of Parliament, and the various institutional reactions to political conflict and social change.
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Reading of Hildegard of Bingen's Expositiones evangeliorum with attention to genre, exegetical and homiletic tradition, intertextuality, questions of gender and authority. Scholarship on Hildegard's works, medieval exegesis, monastic culture, medieval religious women.
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Introduction to Latin manuscripts, their production and use. Taught in collaboration with William P. Stoneman, Houghton Library. Practical initiation to Latin palaeography, work with manuscripts, practice in transcription, and discussion of problems in textual criticism.
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Examines literary theory and criticism inside curriculum (trivium) and outside (oral culture); manuscripts and commentary tradition; biblical exegesis; arts of poetry, letter-writing, preaching; Platonic and Aristotelian traditions; allegory/allegoresis; sign theory. Includes Augustine, Snorri, Dante, Boccaccio.
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An introduction to the process of designing and developing a General Education course on the study of medieval Europe for undergraduates. The course is built around discussion and analysis of a set of singular and understudied objects and texts. Students will gain a facility with multiple disciplinary perspectives on interpreting texts and artifacts in context. Students will each develop a multidisciplinary project of his or her own design for use in the General Education class.
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Focuses on dissertations in progress and other research topics of mutual concern.
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An introduction to Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture from ca. 1250 to 1520 emphasizing style and technique. The course is structured in three parts, each focusing on a single artist whose works are of outstanding historical and artistic significance and whose numerous interactions with artists working in other media, and activity in diverse centers of artistic production, indicate the broader range of artistic concerns and achievements of their time.
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Literary and historical survey of preaching and sermons from the early to the late Middle Ages, as practiced by clergy, religious women, lay people, dissidents. Readings in Latin; discussion of current research and methodological issues.
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Familiarizes scholars in all areas of medieval studies with the research tools and techniques for advanced study of late antique and medieval evidence: Latin palaeography, codicology, hagiography, late Latin philology, late antique studies, numismatics, diplomatic.
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The medieval imagination was the ambiguous mediator between the world and the human understanding, a mental locus in which either prophetic truths or dreams and diabolic deceptions might be apprehended. This course investigates dream poetry and visionary writing in the context of medieval psychological theory. Texts to be read include Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Inferno, Chaucer's House of Fame, The Romance of the Rose, and works by Augustine, Bonaventure, and others.
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