Medieval Studies Courses

Courses 2023-2024

Spring 2024

Courses in italics are primarily for graduate students

Medieval Studies 10: Introduction to the Medieval World (Sean Gilsdorf and Brian FitzGerald). TTh 1330-1445. Also offered as History and Literature 10ab.

Medieval Studies 119: Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval Continental Europe (Charles Donahue). MW 1630-1800.

Celtic 109: Finn: The Great Gaelic Hero (Natasha Sumner). MW 1030-1145.

Classical Studies 172: Romanness After Rome (Jan Ziolkowski). Th 1500-1700.

English 90mr: Race and Religion in Medieval Literature (Anna Wilson). T 0900-1145.

English 103d: Beowulf and Seamus Heaney (Joseph Shack). TTh 1030-1145.

English 115b: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Anna Wilson). MW 1330-1445.

English 180vw: Two Visionary Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Company (Nicholas Watson). TTh 1030-1145.

General Education 1010: Satire (Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja). TuTh 1030-1145.

General Education 1083: Permanent Impermanence: Why Buddhists Build Monuments (Jinah Kim and Eugene Wang). MW 1200-1315.

General Education 1185: The Power and Beauty of Being In-Between: The Story of Armenia (Christina Maranci). MW 1330-1445.

GSD His 4321: Rome (Christine Smith). TBD.

History 1134: Medieval Islam: An Age of Revolutions (Lorenzo Bondioli). TuTh 1200-1315.

History 1700: The History of Sub-Saharan Africa to 1860 (Emmanuel Akyeampong). MW 1030-1145.

History 2056: Reading in Late Antique and Medieval History (Michael McCormick). M 1500-1745.

History 2080: Medieval Law (Charles Donahue). Tu 1600-1800.

HAA 128n: Islamic Ornament: Aesthetics of Abstraction and Perception (Gülru Necipoglü). Th 1200-1445.

HAA 143m: The Court of Constantinople (Ioli Kalavrezou). Th 1500-1745.

HAA 244: Something Rich and Strange: The Materiality of Relics and Reliquaries in the Middle Ages (Jeffrey Hamburger). T 1200-1445.

History and Literature 10ab: Introduction to the Medieval World (Sean Gilsdorf and Brian FitzGerald). TTh 1330-1445. Also offered as Medieval Studies 10.

Islamic Civilizations 201: Islamic Intellectual History: A Survey of the Field (Khaled El Rouayheb). Th 1500-1745.

Medieval Latin 10: Introduction to Medieval Latin Literature (Jan Ziolkowski). MWTh 1330-1445.

Medieval Latin 151: Virgil in the Middle Ages (Jan Ziolkowski). TTh 1330-1445.

Philosophy 106: Augustine (James Doyle). M 1545-1745.

Religion 1398b: Philosophy in the Desert: Evagrius of Pontus's 'Gnostic Trilogy' (Charles Stang). Fr 1200-1500.

Fall 2023

Courses in italics are primarily for graduate students

Medieval Studies 109: Poverty, Wealth, and Religion in the Middle Ages (Brian FitzGerald). MW 1030-1145.

Medieval Studies 117: English Legal History 600-1600 (Charles Donahue). MW 1630-1800.

Medieval Studies 202: Latin Paleography and Medieval Manuscript Culture (Sean Gilsdorf). MW 1330-1445.

Arabic 152: Introduction to Quran and Hadith (Shady Nasser). M 1200-1445.

Arabic 243br: Introduction to the Rational Sciences (Khaled El Rouayheb). Th 1500-1745.

Arabic 245r: Classical Arabic Seminar: Readings in Arabic Poetry, Grammar, and Language (Shady Nasser). W 1200-1445.

Armenian Studies 111: Art and Culture of Armenia (Christina Maranci). MW 1030-1145. Also offered as HAA 34p.

Celtic 137: Celtic Mythology (Joseph Nagy). MW 1200-1315.

English 90tk: Tolkien's Library (Daniel Donoghue). Th 1245-1445.

English 102m: Introduction to Old English: Charms, Herbals, Folk Medicine, Miracle Cures (Daniel Donoghue). TTh 1030-1145.

English 231: Divine Comedies (Nicholas Watson). M 1200-1445.

Freshman Seminar 65h: The Greatest Love Story of All Time? Heloise and Abelard (Jan Ziolkowski). W 1500-1700.

GSD His 4350: Michelangelo Architect: Precedents, Innovation, Influence (Christine Smith). M 1030-1315.

HLS 2473: Roman Law (Charles Donahue). MW 1030-1200.

History 1056: The New Science of the Human Past: Case Studies at the Cutting Edge (Michael McCormick). MW 1200-1315.

History 2055: Early Medieval History, Archeology, and Archeoscience (Michael McCormick). M 1500-1745.

History 2884: Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History (Cemal Kafadar). W 1500-1745.

HAA 34p: Art and Culture of Armenia (Christina Maranci). MW 1030-1145. Also offered as Armenian Studies 111.

HAA 81: Art of Monsoon Asia: Interconnected Histories (Jinah Kim). MW 1330-1445.

HAA 144m: Hagia Sophia: Art and Ceremony (Ioli Kalavrezou). Th 1500-1745.

HAA 226v: Ottoman Visual, Material, and Architectural Cultures (Gülru Necipoglü). Tu 1200-1445.

HAA 236v: Threads of Survival: Armenian Liturgical Textiles (Christina Maranci). M 1500-1745.

HAA 288p: Medieval Japanese Ink Painting (Yukio Lippit). Th 1500-1745.

Islamic Civ 145: Introduction to Islamic Philosophy and Theology: The Classical and Medieval Period (Khaled El Rouayheb). Tu 1200-1445.

Italian 138: The Cosmos of the Divine Comedy (Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja). Th 1500-1745.

Modern Middle East 117: Zawiyas, Harems and Coffee Shops: Everyday Life in the Premodern Middle East (Amina Elbendari). WF 1030-1145.

Persian 108: Persian Sufi Literature (Nicholas Boylston). M 1500-1700. Also offered as HDS 3045.

Persian 220: Intellectual and Literary Foundations of Classical Persian Poetry (Nicholas Boylston). W 1800-2000.

Portuguese 145: Transatlantic Africa and Brazil (Josiah Blackmore). Tu 1245-1445.

Religion 1398a: Philosophy in the Desert: Evagrius of Pontus's 'Gnostic Trilogy'" (Charles Stang). Fr 1200-1500.

Welsh 226r: Readings in Middle Welsh Prose (Catherine McKenna). Th 1200-1430.