Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 19, 2016 6:14PM EST
- Course Catalog - January 19, 2016 6:21PM EST
Classes
MEDVL 1101
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Icons & Idolatry, from Rome to the Reformation
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Barber, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Beowulf & Legendary Sagas:The Art of Heroism
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Currie, E
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Where the World Ends:Foundations of Mdvl Geogr
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Greenlee, J
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Im-/Material Middle Ages
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Mullett, R
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Magic in Arthurian Legends
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 498
Instructors
Sprenkle, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
MEDVL 1102
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Fighting Words-Anglo-Saxon Heroes&their Poetry
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Wu, D
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
MEDVL 1104
Course Description
No description available. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Shapeshifters&Cybermen:Almost-Human as Allegor
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Ruether-Wu, M
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Superheroes and Semiotics
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Alice H. Cook House 106
Instructors
Reid, D
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
MEDVL 2170
Course Description
This course explores major texts and themes of the Hispanic tradition from the 11th to the 17th centuries. We will examine general questions on literary analysis and the relationship between literature ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 2170, SPAN 2170
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 110
Instructors
Garces, M
MEDVL 2271
Course Description
How did women and men experience family life in the literate, urban society of Renaissance Italy? What did it mean to belong to a family? Focusing primarily on Venice and Florence, the seminar begins by ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2271, ITAL 2270
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Najemy, J
MEDVL 2655
Course Description
The seventh-century Arab conquests resulted in the creation of a vibrant new civilization that stretched from the Iberian peninsula in the west to Central Asia and the borders of India in the east. We ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2530, NES 2655, RELST 2655
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Powers, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 110
Instructors
Powers, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Smith, K
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 104
Instructors
Powers, D
MEDVL 2740
Course Description
Although Scotland, which was long a separate nation, is now politically united with England, it preserves its distinctiveness. This course provides an introduction to Scottish literature, with special ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2740
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Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Hill, T
Shaw, H
MEDVL 3110
Course Description
In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3110, ENGL 6110, MEDVL 6110
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Zacher, S
MEDVL 3210
Course Description
A selective survey of Western philosophical thought from the fourth to the 14th century. Topics include the problem of universals, the theory of knowledge and truth, the nature of free choice and practical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 3210, RELST 3150
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Bulthuis, N
MEDVL 3308
Course Description
Reading/discussion groups in Welsh or Scottish Gaelic. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LING 3308
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
MEDVL 3315
Course Description
Old Norse is a collective term for the earliest North Germanic literary languages: Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian, Old Danish, and Old Swedish. The richly documented Old Icelandic is the center of attention, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LING 3315
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Jonatansdottir, G
MEDVL 3510
Course Description
This course explores the writings of the most famous and controversial political theorist in the Western tradition. We begin with the political and cultural context of Machiavelli's early life and education, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3510, ITAL 3510
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Najemy, J
MEDVL 3570
Course Description
No figure in Christian history, short of Jesus himself, has inspired as much thought, art, and action as Francis of Assisi. In this course we'll have the opportunity to trace this thirteenth-century preacher, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ITAL 3570, RELST 3570
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Howie, C
MEDVL 3750
Course Description
Introduction and training in dendrochronology and its application to archaeology, art history, and environment through participation in a research project dating ancient to modern tree-ring samples especially ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: ARKEO 3090, ARKEO 4755, ARTH 3250, CLASS 3750, CLASS 4755
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall B48
Instructors
Manning, S
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
MEDVL 3790
Course Description
What place does sin have in contemporary culture, from ethics to aesthetics? How do we consider sin, as a condition, an act, a choice? How does a particular community-religious, literary, ethnic-consider ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 3790, SPAN 3790
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 498
Instructors
Pinet, S
MEDVL 4002
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA Hans Bethe House 125
Instructors
MacDonald, S
MEDVL 4125
Course Description
This seminar will sample from the works of a series of poets who were major contributors to a "cult of personality" that can be seen developing from the later fourteenth century through the Renaissance: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4125, ENGL 6125, MEDVL 6125
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Galloway, A
MEDVL 4180
Course Description
When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews—that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4180, ENGL 6180, JWST 4180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 6180
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Zacher, S
MEDVL 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA Hans Bethe House 125
Instructors
MacDonald, S
MEDVL 6110
Course Description
In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3110, ENGL 6110, MEDVL 3110
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Zacher, S
MEDVL 6125
Course Description
This seminar will sample from the works of a series of poets who were major contributors to a "cult of personality" that can be seen developing from the later fourteenth century through the Renaissance: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4125, ENGL 6125, MEDVL 4125
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Galloway, A
MEDVL 6180
Course Description
When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews—that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4180, ENGL 6180, JWST 4180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 4180
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Zacher, S
MEDVL 6202
Course Description
This seminar engages participants in close readings of selected texts of medieval Arabic literature. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 6201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
MEDVL 6210
Course Description
Graduate seminar covering a topic in medieval philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 6210
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 303
Instructors
Bulthuis, N
MEDVL 6620
Course Description
This course brings together two bodies of writing, very close in the space and time of their production, that nonetheless have come to seem very far from one another in their critical and scholarly afterlives. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FREN 6620
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Howie, C