Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences

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MEDVL 1101

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Icons & Idolatry, from Rome to the Reformation

  • 18330 MEDVL 1101   SEM 101

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Beowulf & Legendary Sagas:The Art of Heroism

  • 18331 MEDVL 1101   SEM 102

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Where the World Ends:Foundations of Mdvl Geogr

  • 18332 MEDVL 1101   SEM 103

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Im-/Material Middle Ages

  • 18333 MEDVL 1101   SEM 104

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Magic in Arthurian Legends

  • 18335 MEDVL 1101   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

MEDVL 1102

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Fighting Words-Anglo-Saxon Heroes&their Poetry

  • 18336 MEDVL 1102   SEM 101

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MEDVL 1104

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Shapeshifters&Cybermen:Almost-Human as Allegor

  • 18337 MEDVL 1104   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Superheroes and Semiotics

  • 18498 MEDVL 1104   SEM 102

  • For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

MEDVL 2170

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 2170SPAN 2170

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8372 MEDVL 2170   SEM 101

MEDVL 2271

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2271ITAL 2270

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17446 MEDVL 2271   SEM 101

MEDVL 2655

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2530NES 2655RELST 2655

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17315 MEDVL 2655   LEC 001

  • 17316 MEDVL 2655   DIS 201

  • 17317 MEDVL 2655   DIS 202

  • 17318 MEDVL 2655   DIS 203

MEDVL 2740

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2740

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8389 MEDVL 2740   LEC 001

MEDVL 3110

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3110ENGL 6110MEDVL 6110

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8390 MEDVL 3110   SEM 101

MEDVL 3210

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 3210RELST 3150

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18064 MEDVL 3210   LEC 001

MEDVL 3308

Reading/discussion groups in Welsh or Scottish Gaelic. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3308

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  9408 MEDVL 3308   SEM 001

    • TBA
    • Harbert, W

MEDVL 3315

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LING 3315

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9693 MEDVL 3315   LEC 001

MEDVL 3510

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3510ITAL 3510

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16393 MEDVL 3510   LEC 001

MEDVL 3570

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 3570RELST 3570

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18102 MEDVL 3570   SEM 101

MEDVL 3750

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

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  •  8380 MEDVL 3750   LEC 001

  •  8381 MEDVL 3750   LAB 401

    • TBA
    • Manning, S

MEDVL 3790

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 3790SPAN 3790

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17973 MEDVL 3790   SEM 101

MEDVL 4002

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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  •  8385 MEDVL 4002   SEM 101

MEDVL 4125

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4125ENGL 6125MEDVL 6125

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17145 MEDVL 4125   SEM 101

MEDVL 4180

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

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  • 16235 MEDVL 4180   SEM 101

MEDVL 6020

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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  •  8386 MEDVL 6020   SEM 101

MEDVL 6110

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3110ENGL 6110MEDVL 3110

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8391 MEDVL 6110   SEM 101

MEDVL 6125

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4125ENGL 6125MEDVL 4125

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17146 MEDVL 6125   SEM 101

MEDVL 6180

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

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  • 16661 MEDVL 6180   SEM 101

MEDVL 6202

This seminar engages participants in close readings of selected texts of medieval Arabic literature. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: NES 6201

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17856 MEDVL 6202   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • Brann, R

MEDVL 6210

Graduate seminar covering a topic in medieval philosophy. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 6210

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18066 MEDVL 6210   SEM 101

MEDVL 6620

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 6620

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17919 MEDVL 6620   SEM 101

MEDVL 8010

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6540 MEDVL 8010   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Hill, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8806 MEDVL 8010   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Dubreuil, L

MEDVL 8020

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6541 MEDVL 8020   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff