The Interdisciplinary Studies (Med. Stud. U805) seminars offered in recent years have dealt with such subjects
as the relation of text and music in the medieval lyric, typology in medieval art and lietrature,
the artisitic and intellectual achievements of French culture and society in the 12th century, and saint's
lives in medieval art, folklore, and literature.
In addition, each semester the various doctoral disciplines offer medieval studies courses.
Listed below are the more than 100 courses in medieval studies that were taught at the Graduate School
between 1982 and 1996. These include themes as widely varied as the cultural heritage of Byzantium, Islam,
and Judaism; medieval political theory; ecclesiastical and urban history; Latin Paleography and the editing
of medieval texts; and the definitive themes and genres of medieval literature. Students have used texts in Arabic,
Old and Middle English, French, German, Hebrew, Latin, Old Irish, Italian, Old Norse, Old Provençal, Spanish, and
Old Welsh.
Representative Courses
- Dante's Paradiso
- The Romance in 12th and early 13th Centuries
- Seminar in Medieval Drama
- Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
- Old Norse
- Intellectual History: Early Middle Ages
- Old English
- Medieval Literary Theory
- England in the Middle Ages
- Villon and the Lyric Tradition
- Medieval Lyric and Romance
- Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
- Chaucer: Troilus and the Dream Poems
- Dante, The Divine Comedy, and Purgatorio
- Empire and Papacy
- Old Lrish: Readings and Grammar
- Old English Literature: Beowulf and other works
- Middle English Literature 1300-1500
- Medieval Epic and Lyric Poetry
- Resources and Methods in Medieval Studies
- Text and Music in the Medieval Lyric
- Typology in Medieval Art and Literature
- Editing the Medieval Text
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