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SPRING 2007
In the Spring 2007 semester, the Medieval Studies Certificate Program
offers the following courses.
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MSCP
70100
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Introduction to Medieval Studies
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Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits
[67933]
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Professor Gordon Whatley
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seminar will be structured around three units of 3-4 weeks apiece, each
devoted to a "rich" text (or cluster of texts) from, respectively,
history, literature, and the visual arts (music, architecture, philosophy
and science are beyond this instructor’s competence, but are not excluded
from potential areas that students might explore).
The first two units will focus on, respectively, one or more chronicles of
the First Crusade and Chretien de Troyes’ classic romance of fin’amors
(“courtly love”), Lancelot (Chevalier de la charette).
In these units, via traditional and electronic library research, we will
sample various issues of interdisciplinary inquiry, such as textuality/manuscript contexts, “authorship” and
sources, genre and rhetoric, medieval and modern reception, and some of the
ever-shifting theories of interpretation in modern historiography and
literary scholarship.
The artefact chosen to illustrate the importance
of the visual arts to the study of medieval texts and culture is the Morgan
Library’s Stavelot Triptych
of the True Cross (8th/12th c.). It introduces
students to a complex of scholarly concerns, including: iconography of the
Bible and saints; relics; ecclesiastical patronage of “high art”; art in
relation to religious devotion, liturgy, and theology; Byzantine-Western
relations in the mid-12th century; and the role of the
episcopacy in international politics. The Triptych has been described as a
“mirror reflecting the artistic, liturgical, spiritual, and political
milieu of its time.”
Students will have the opportunity to produce (in a final, fourth unit) a
short paper further developing a topic broached during the course.
Some class time will be set aside for short presentations by medievalist
faculty from various disciplines.
Information: E.Whatley@QC.cuny.edu
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MSCP
70900
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Readings in Medieval Latin
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Thursday,
4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits [67934]
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Professor Michael Sargent
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The
purpose of this course is to help students who already have a basis in
Latin (usually a course in classical Latin) to improve their ability
specifically with respect to medieval texts.
We will read from a variety of works from different periods and countries,
in different genres, including historical accounts, religious writing,
letters and the drama.
This is NOT an introductory Latin course: it will assume that you have
already fulfilled the Latin language requirement and thus already have some
ability to work in the language. If your command (or memory) of Latin
grammar is unsteady, that's OK: if you already have a grammar book that you
know your way around, bring it along.
The text for this course will be Keith Sidwell's Reading
Medieval Latin (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
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ART
73000
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Problems in Gothic Art & Architecture
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Monday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Room TBA., 3 credits [67769]
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Professor Jennifer Ball
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Like
many historical periods, the Gothic period, along with the very word
"Gothic", was defined long after it was said to be over.
First used during the Renaissance, the term "Gothic" was
initially derogatory; the style itself has been redefined several times
through the Gothic Survival and various Gothic Revivals throughout Europe,
further muddying the understanding of this period.
This class will survey the major art and architectural output of Western
Medieval Europe in the late Middle Ages, roughly 1150-1500.
The historiography of the period will be examined, especially the
iconographical approach of Emile Mâle and his
followers and the structuralist understanding of
Gothic begun with the work of Viollet-le-Duc.
While the term “Gothic” will be deconstructed, the class will focus on the
ideas that tie the artistic output of the later Middle Ages together,
including commonly held notions of hierarchy, narrative, space, and time.
Two (2) auditors allowed.
Prerequisite: Permission of Art History Program required.
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ENGL
70800
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Medieval & Renaissance Drama
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Tuesday, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m., 2/4 credits [68082]
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Professor Richard McCoy
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An
examination of the links between medieval miracles, mysteries, and morality
plays and early modern comedies, tragedies, and romances, focusing on the
festive, redemptive, and ritual elements that survived the suppression of
religious drama and the anti-theatrical animus of England’s reformation.
I am particularly interested in exploring similarities and differences
between an earlier “sacramental” theater and performances in which belief
is optional and a sense of presence sustained by imagination.
Works considered will include Abraham and Isaac, The Crucifixion, The
Second Shepherds’ Play, The Harrowing of Hell, The Croxton
Play of the Sacrament, and Everyman and The Spanish
Tragedy, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta (in performance with The
Merchant of Venice at TFNA), Henry V, The Winter’s Tale, The
Duchess of Malfi, and The Revenger’s Tragedy as well as some transitional
early Tudor dramas such as Gammer Gurton’s Needle and Jack Juggler.
One research paper and one oral presentation.
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HIST
79000
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Jewish-Christian Encounters Middle
Ages-Present
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Monday, 4:15 – 6:15 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits [68032]
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Professor David Berger
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Major
themes in the religious relations between Jews and Christians: Jesus,
Jewish law, and the “true Israel”; medieval controversies about the Hebrew
Bible, Christian doctrines, the Talmud, and the Gospels; Christian belief
and “antisemitism” in medieval and modern times;
Jewish perceptions of Christianity and Christian perceptions of Judaism;
the Church and the Holocaust; the second Vatican Council, interfaith
dialogue, and tensions over Zionism and Israel.
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SPAN
70900
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Medieval Poetry
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Thursday, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 3 credits
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Professor Marithelma Costa
[67843]
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SPAN
81000
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Studies
in Medieval Literature
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Monday, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Room
TBA, 4 credits [67850]
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Professor Octavio
DiCamillo
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Past schedules:
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Fall 2006; 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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