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MDST 101 - ELEMENTARY LATIN I Credits: 3 Study of the fundamentals of Latin grammar with emphasis on acquisition of reading skills. Cross-list: LATI 101. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 102 - ELEMENTARY LATIN II Credits: 3 Continuation of LATI 101 and MDST 101. Cross-list: LATI 102. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 104 - CASE STUDIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE Credits: 3 This course offers an introduction to the history of Western art and architecture through weekly case studies of some of the most important public and private buildings in antiquity and the Middle Ages: from the Parthenon to a Roman house, Carnavan Castle to Chartres Cathedral. Topics explored throughout the course include the construction of imperial authority, ritual and the formation of space, and the relationship between structure and design. Cross-list: ARCH 104, CLAS 104, HART 104. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 105 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Credits: 3 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. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 106 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN DEVOTIONAL PRACTICES Credits: 3 Survey of major themes in medieval Christian devotion introducing medieval practices of death, penance, pilgrimage, cult of the saints and Mary, among others. Considers devotional texts, material culture, art and literature. Cross-list: RELI 106. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 108 - ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE Credits: 3 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 We will employ historical texts, literature, and illustrations of works of art, showing how historical documents and sources can illuminate the cultural context of art and architecture.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. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 111 - INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I: PREHISTORIC TO GOTHIC Credits: 3 A survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Paleolithic period through the 15th century. Cross-list: CLAS 102, HART 101. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 126 - THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR IN THE MIDDLE AGES Credits: 3 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. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 126, GERM 126. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 201 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I Credits: 3 Survey of the major philosophers and philosophical systems of ancient Greece, from Parmenides to the Stoics. Cross-list: CLAS 201, PHIL 201. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 202 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION I: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES Credits: 3 Introduction to the European culture of the "Dark Ages," from the fall of Rome to the end of the Viking invasions. Includes the use of historical, literary, artistic, and archaeological sources to trace changes in European material, spiritual, and cultural life between 300 and 1000 AD. Cross-list: HIST 202. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 203 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION II: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES Credits: 3 European culture from the year 1000 to the discovery of the Americas, which encompasses the Crusades, the "discovery of the individual," chivalry and chivalric literature, the Black Death, and the beginnings of the Age of Exploration. Cross-list: HIST 203. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 211 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN I: PROSE Credits: 3 Review of grammar and readings in Latin prose. Cross-list: LATI 201. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 212 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN II Credits: 3 Readings in Virgil. Cross-list: LATI 202. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 222 - MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ERAS Credits: 3 Introduction to the study of Western music history, with emphasis on music before 1600. Score reading ability required. Cross-list: MUSI 222. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 281 - THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO SULAYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT Credits: 3 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 which shaped the region's history. Cross-list: HIST 281. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 300 - MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/mewom.htm An examination of the most significant medieval European women authors from the 10th-17th centuries. We will combine close reading with a focus on intertextuality to recover a feminized literary tradition. Cross-list: ENGL 311, SWGS 300. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 301 - ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Credits: 3 Topics in the history of philosophy from the 4th century B.C. through the 14th century. Cross-list: CLAS 301, PHIL 301, Equivalency: MDST 481. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 308 - THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY Credits: 3 Study of the social, religious, and political history of the Roman world from the Diocletian to the rise of Islam, with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of the Mediterranean world and the formation of Byzantine society in the Greek east. Cross-list: HIST 308. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 310 - DANTE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/dante.pdf A close reading of Dante's Divine Comedy, with attention to the meaning of words, images, symbols, figures, structures, and the epic itself, with reference to the political/religious controversies of the time in Florence, Italy, and medieval Europe. Cross-list: ENGL 310. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 311 - OLD ENGLISH Credits: 3 This course will be a combination of Old English Grammar and readings in Old English. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 313 - BEOWULF Credits: 3 A reading of the beginning, the death and the funeral of Beowulf in Old English. Recommended prerequisite(s): Old English Grammar or instructor permission. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 315 - MEDIEVAL CULTURES THROUGH FILM Credits: 4 Course URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/med_cult.html 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. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 316 - CHAUCER Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/chaucer3.html A course on Chaucer and his literary culture and philosophical backgrounds. Readings include minor poems, a dream vision, "The Canterbury Tales", "Troilus and Criseyde." Cross-list: ENGL 316, SWGS 305. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 317 - ARTHURIAN LITERATURE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/arthurian.htm 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. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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MDST 318 - J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND THE MIDDLE AGES Credits: 3 Course URL: http://http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/tol2006.pdf 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. College: School of Humanities Department: Medieval Studies
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