# Medieval Studies Courses ## expand\_more ## Upcoming and current offerings ## Fall 2026 **Courses in** ***italics*** **are primarily for graduate students** Medieval Studies 10. Introduction to the Medieval World (Brian FitzGerald and Sean Gilsdorf). TuTh 1330-1445. Also offered as History & Literature 10ab. Medieval Studies 107. Authority and Invention: Medieval Art and Architecture (Christine Smith). TTh 1030-1445. Arabic 101a. Elementary Classical Arabic for Reading (Khaled El Rouayheb). MWF 0900-1015. Arabic 102a. Intermediate Classical Arabic for Reading (Khaled El Rouayheb). MWF 1030-1445. *Arabic 259. Introduction to Medieval Arabic Rhetoric* (Khaled El Rouayheb). Th 1500-1745. Celtic 221. The Celtic Languages: A Linguistic Introduction (Paul Russell). TTh 1030-1145. *Chinese Studies 267r. Topics in Tang Literature* (Xiaofei Tian). M 1200-1445. Classical Studies 122. Identity and the Self in the Medieval Greek Tradition (Dimiter Angelov). W 1245-1445. Also offered as History 1970. Comparative Literature 114. Mysticism and Literature (Luis Girón Negrón). W 1200-1445. Also offered as HDS 3802 and Religion 1623. English 90cl. Comic Literature through the Middle Ages (Daniel Donoghue). W 1200-1445. English 102m. Introduction to Old English: Charms, Herbals, Folk Medicine, Miracle Cures (Daniel Donoghue). TTh 1200-1315. English 115b. The Canterbury Tales (Nicholas Watson). TuTh 0900-1015. English 180vw. Two Visionary Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Company (Nicholas Watson). W 0900-1145. First Year Seminar 65h. The Greatest Love Story of All Time? Heloise and Abelard (Jan Ziolkowski). M 1500-1700. Folklore & Mythology 140: Jewish Magic and Folklore: Messages from Beyond the Mountains of Darkness (Daniel Frim). W 1500-1700. General Education 1185. The Power and Beauty of Being In Between: The Story of Armenia (Christina Maranci). TuTh 1030-1145. History 34. Medieval Islam: An Age of Revolutions (Lorenzo Bondioli). TuTh 1200-1315. History 1934. The Medieval Islamic Commercial Revolution (Lorenzo Bondioli). W 0945-1145. History 1970. Identity and the Self in the Medieval Greek Tradition (Dimiter Angelov). W 1245-1445. Also offered as Classical Studies 122. *History 2050. Medieval Societies and Cultures* (Dan Smail). M 0945-1145. *History of Science 2150. History of Science and the World* (Eric Gurevitch). W 1500-1745. History & Literature 10ab. Introduction to the Medieval World (Brian FitzGerald and Sean Gilsdorf). TuTh 1330-1445. Also offered as Medieval Studies 10. HAA 12m. Monuments and Cities of the Islamic World: An Introduction (David Roxburgh and Gulru Necipoglu). MW 1030-1145. HAA 81. Art of Monsoon Asia: Interconnected Histories (Jinah Kim). TuTh 1330-1445. HAA 127m. Medieval Architecture in Greater Iran and Central Asia (David Roxburgh). M 1200-1445. HAA 148p. Openings: The Illuminated Manuscript in the Middle Ages (Jeffrey Hamburger). Tu 1200-1445. HAA 174. The King’s Money: Power, Art, and Economy in the Global Middle Ages (Eurydice Georganteli). Th 1500-1700. HDS 1724. Early Christian Demonology (Charles Stang). Tu 1500-1700. Also offered as Religion 1313. HDS 3802. Mysticism and Literature (Luis Girón Negrón). W 1200-1445. Also offered as Comparative Literature 114 and Religion 1623. Islamic Civilization 145. Introduction to Islamic Philosophy and Theology: The Classical and Medieval Period (Khaled El Rouayheb). W 1500-1745. Italian 138. The Cosmos of the *Divine Comedy* (Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja). W 1500-1745. Japanese Literature 124. *The Tale of Genji* in Word and Image (Melissa McCormick). W 1500-1745. Medieval Latin 105. A Germanic Hero and His Afterlife: Walter's Poem (Jan Ziolkowski). Tu 1800-2045. Religion 41. History of Christianity from Constantine to the Reformation (Brian FitzGerald). TuTh 1030-1145. Religion 1313. Early Christian Demonology (Charles Stang). Tu 1500-1700. Also offered as HDS 1724. Religion 1623. Mysticism and Literature (Luis Girón Negrón). W 1200-1445. Also offered as Comparative Literature 114 and HDS 3802. *Spanish 201. Historia de la lengua española* (Luis Girón Negrón). Tu 0900-1145. Turkish 150a. Advanced Ottoman Turkish I (Himmet Taskomur). MW 1500-1700. *Welsh 225a. Medieval Welsh Language and Literature* (Paul Russell). TTh 1330-1445. ## Spring 2026 **Courses in** ***italics*** **are primarily for graduate students** Medieval Studies 109. Poverty, Wealth and Religion in the Middle Ages (Brian FitzGerald). TTh 1030-1145. Also offered as Religion 30. Medieval Studies 111: Sex, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages (Sean Gilsdorf). TTh 1330-1445. Medieval Studies 117. English Legal History 600-1600 (Elizabeth Kamali). MW 1030-1145. Arabic 130b. Upper-Level Classical Arabic II (Shady Nasser). MW 1200-1315. *Arabic 243ar. Advanced Readings in Classical Arabic: Historical Sources* (Shady Nasser). W 1500-1745. *Arabic 251r. Classical Arabic Texts Seminar: An Introduction to Reading in Arabic Manuscripts* (Shady Nasser and Khaled El-Rouayheb). Th 1500-1745. Celtic 120. Food and Fantasy in Irish Tradition (Joseph Nagy). MW 1200-1330. *Celtic 222. The Manuscript Cultures of the Celtic-Speaking World* (Paul Russell). W 1330-1530. Comparative Literature 157. From Type to Self in the Middle Ages (Luis Girón Negrón). W 1200-1445. English 90mc. Before the Novel: Medieval Romance (Nicholas Watson). Th 0945-1145. English 90tk. Tolkien's Library (Daniel Donoghue). Tu 1245-1445. *English 202b. Beowulf and Seamus Heaney* (Daniel Donoghue). Th 1200-1445. French 71. Women Who Make a Fuss: Tracing Women's Voices in Premodern France (Elizabeth Harper). TTh 0900-1015. French 103. "Great Lust to Sleep": Dreamers, Sleepwalkers, and Insomniacs in Medieval French Literature (Elizabeth Harper). TTh 1500-1615. General Education 1088. The Crusades and the Making of East and West (Dimiter Angelov). TuTh 1200-1315. General Education 1160. Harvard Gets Medieval (Daniel Smail). MW 1200-1315. Greek 188. Oratory (Alexander Riehle). TuTh 1030-1145. HDS 1762. All from One: The Neoplatonism of Proclus (Charles Stang). Tu 1500-1700. Also offered as Religion 2434. *HDS 2781. Histories, Bodies, Differences* (Amy Hollywood). Tu 1500-1700. *HLS 3380. Maimonides on Religion, Philosophy and Law* (Moshe Halbertal). Tu 1545-1745. Also offered as Jewish Studies 212. History 32a. The Ottoman Empire and the World, Part One: c. 1000-1500 (Cemal Kafadar). MW 1330-1445. History 1935. Political Debates in the Empire of New Rome (Dimiter Angelov). M 1245-1445. HAA 45m. Medieval Media (Jeffrey Hamburger). Tu 1200-1400. HAA 183k. Himalayan Art (Jinah Kim). M 1500-1745. *HAA 236v. Threads of Survival: Armenian Liturgical Textiles* (Christina Maranci). Tu 1200-1445. *HAA 241p. The Diagram Paradigm: Diagrams in Medieval Art and Beyond* (Jeffrey Hamburger). W 1500-1745. *HAA 274. The King's Money: Power, Art, and Economy in the Global Middle Ages* (Eurydice Georganteli). M 1200-1445. *HAA 289g. Japanese Screen Paintings* (Melissa McCormick). W 1500-1745. History of Science 1115. The Occult: A History of Science and Magic before Modernity (Hannah Marcus). M 1245-1445. Irish 201r. Continuing Old Irish (Joseph Nagy). MW 1630-1745. Islamic Civilization 158. The Quran through the Ages: Transmission and Reception (Shady Nasser). W 1500-1745. Italian 76. The Italian Sonnet (Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja). TBD. *Italian 238. Alchemy and Literature* (Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja). TBD. *Jewish Studies 212. Maimonides on Religion, Philosophy and Law* ((Moshe Halbertal). Tu 1545-1745. Also offered as HLS 3380. Modern Greek Studies 104. Dreams and Literature from Antiquity to Modernity (Panagiotis Roilos). Tu 0945-1145. Persian 132r. Advanced Classical Persian (Himmet Taskomur). TTh 0945-1145. Religion 30. Poverty, Wealth and Religion in the Middle Ages (Brian FitzGerald). TTh 1030-1145. Also offered as Medieval Studies 109. Religion 2434. All from One: The Neoplatonism of Proclus (Charles Stang). Tu 1500-1700. Also offered as HDS 1762. Welsh 227. Welsh Bardic Poetry (Paul Russell). TTh 1330-1445.