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FALL 2006
In the Fall 2006 semester, the Medieval Studies Certificate Program offers
the following courses.
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MSCP 80500
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Paris, 1130-1270: Creation of a Capital
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Thursday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits
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Professor William Clark
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By
1250, Paris was the largest, best organized, and the most cosmopolitan city
in western Europe.
This multi-disciplinary seminar will examine the conceptual and practical
recovery, development, and ascendance of Paris through its social,
economic, political, educational, and religious institutions.
We will examine monuments and organizations from the cathedral to the
university, from the royal palaces to the marketplaces, from the city
walls, to the river trade to trace the creation of the capital and the
Gothic style.
We will study the works of scholars such Robert-Henry Bauthier, Jacques Le
Goff, and Jean Dufour, among others. Special attention will be paid to
such monuments as the Cathedral of
Notre-Dame, the Sainte-Chapelle, and the development of the manuscript
trade.
Students will be required to do an oral presentation and a research paper.
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MSCP
80500
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Boccaccio/Chaucer/Narrative
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Tuesday,
4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits
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Professor William Coleman
Cross listed with CL 70700
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MSCP
89000
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Dissertation Workshop
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Day & Room
TBA, 0 credits
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Professor Glenn Burger
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This
workshop is intended for students preparing their prospectus or already at
work writing the dissertation. We will focus on work in progress rather
than polished final drafts of dissertation chapters.
Students will prepare drafts and read each others’ work (including versions
of the dissertation prospectus), as well as discuss the job market and the
academic profession from the perspective of interdisciplinary work in
Medieval Studies.
The opportunity to present and discuss dissertation work in such an
environment should provide a valuable stimulus to student progress and to
shorten the time taken to finish the degree.
Students should allow for weekly meetings, but we may meet less frequently
depending on the number of students participating.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Medieval Studies Certificate Program
Coordinator. For permission, contact: gburger@gc.cuny.edu
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C L
80101
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Orality/Writing Medieval & Early Modern
Italian
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Monday, 2:30-5:00 p.m., 4 credits
Course taught at NYU
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Professor Jane Tylus
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Information: italian.dept@nyu.edu
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ENGL
70300
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Introduction to Old English Language
& Literature
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Friday, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Room TBA, 2/4 credits
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Professor Gordon Whatley
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“Old
English” (OE) constitutes the first documented phase of the English
language (ca. 700-1150), and OE literature, preserved in manuscripts of the
9th-12th centuries, is the most plentiful and diverse
of the surviving vernacular literatures of early Europe.
While some knowledge of OE is fundamental to understanding (or teaching)
the History of the English Language, as well as for serious work in all
Middle English and Scots literature, OE is of abiding interest in itself.
The language at first glance looks “foreign” but motivated students
routinely succeed in acquiring a reading knowledge in a 14-week course such
as this one. After a few weeks of elementary grammar and short translation
exercises, the focus shifts to reading more extensive passages of secular
and religious prose in OE and translation, including the legend of an early
Christian “cross-dresser,” Saint Eugenia.
Also to be studied are some classic pieces from the surviving manuscripts
of poetry (Dream of the Rood, Judith, Wanderer or Seafarer,
Genesis B, The Wife's Lament, riddles, etc.). In addition to
working on the weekly texts, students will occasionally report briefly on
criticism and/or theorizings of the readings (with some attention to the
development of Anglo-Saxon studies, “philology,” “English,” and the
Academy).
Also required is a modest paper (12-15 pp) on any text or topic in
Anglo-Saxon literary culture. A “Blackboard” website will be used for
posting handouts and sharing materials; elsewhere on the Web there are
excellent sites to help with learning the language and researching the
literature and culture of the Anglo-Saxons.
Contact me with any queries, and please register early if you want to take
the course: E.Whatley@QC.cuny.edu.
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ENGL
70500
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Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
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Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 2/4 credits
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Professor Michael Sargent
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In this course, we will use a variety of approaches to
unpack The Canterbury Tales as a collection.
We will consider such issues as the nineteenth- and twentieth-century
construction of the authority of the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts, the
base-texts of all modern editions, the modernist and postmodern treatments
of the place of The Canterbury Tales within the tradition of
frame-tale collections of narratives, and of the “shape”, “end” and
“purpose” of Chaucer’s magnum opus, and the postmodern discussion of
the fifteenth-century construction of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of
English Poetry, by his scribes and readers.
Our text will be The Canterbury Tales itself/themselves, as well as
sections of others of Chaucer’s poems, and the works of his contemporaries,
that reflect upon The Canterbury Tales – or are reflected by it. We
will also be looking at facsimiles of some of the original manuscripts of
these works.
Although everyone taking this course will probably have read some part of The
Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English at some point in the
past, we will begin with at least a brief discussion of Chaucer’s language.
The course will also include work in late Middle English vernacular
paleography and codicology (the amount will depend on the interest of the
individual students).
Students will each prepare a seminar presentation and a research paper.
Text: The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd Edition. Eds. Larry D.
Benson, et at. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
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FRENCH
87500
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Villon
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Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 pm, Room TBA,
2 credits
Course meets October 10 -
December 8.
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Professor Francesca Sautman
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P SC
70100
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Ancient & Medieval Political Thought
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Tuesday,
4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits
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Professor
Joan Tronto
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Within
American universities, political theory is typically taught historically,
beginning with ancient Greek writers and proceeding through contemporary
thought. This course serves as an introduction both to the study of
political theory and to the study of ancient and medieval political theory.
We shall read a number of texts, discuss the nature of the ideas we
encounter there, and reflect upon the nature of political theory as a field
of study. This semester, we shall especially think about the theme of
empire and its relation to forms of political order.
Students are expected to come to each class fully prepared to engage in the
ongoing discussions. The writing and oral assignments will be tailored to
maximize student familiarity with “thinking like a political theorist” and
to prepare students for success in graduate school and as college teachers.
More specifically, students will be expected to:
Develop the capacity to ask important questions in
political theory
Investigate common aspects of ancient and medieval
thinkers as well as identify differences among them
Build a solid foundation of knowledge about these
thinkers
Work on clear written and oral presentation
Among the authors and texts that we will read:
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War tr. Rex Warner, 1972.
(Penguin)
Plato, The Republic tr.
Desmond Lee, 1987. (Penguin)
Plato, The Last Days of
Socrates tr. H. Tredennick, 1980 (Penguin)
Plato, The Laws tr.
Trevor Saunders, 1972. (Penguin)
Plato, The Statesman
tr. C. J. Rowe, 1999. (Hackett)
Aristotle, The Politics
and the Constitution of Athens ed. S Everson, 1996 (Cambridge)
Aristotle, The Ethics
tr. J. A. K. Thomson, 1976 (Penguin)
Cicero, The Republic and
the Laws tr. N. Rudd, 1998 (Oxford).
Augustine, City of God
ed. D. Knowles, 1972 (Penguin)
Moses ben Maiman (Maimonides)
(edition not yet selected)
Abul-Walid Ibn Rushd
(Averroes) (edition not yet selected)
Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas
Aquinas on Politics and Ethics ed. P. Sigmund, 1990 (Norton)
Marsilius of Padua, Defensor
Pacis, tr. A. Gewirth, 2001 (Columbia University Press).
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SPAN
71000
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Medieval
Epic
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Monday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits
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Professor
Octavio Di Camillo
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Past schedules:
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Spring 2006; Fall 2005; Spring 2005;Fall 2004;Spring 2004;Fall 2003; Spring 2003; Fall 2002; Spring 2002; Fall 2001; Spring 2001
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