Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences

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MEDVL 1101

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Writing About Dreams in the Mdl Ages

  • 19615 MEDVL 1101   SEM 101

    • TR Uris Hall G22
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Caldwell, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Mind and Soul in the Middle Ages

  • 19616 MEDVL 1101   SEM 102

    • TR Uris Hall G22
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Di Palo, F

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Heroes &Heroines-Mdvl Wrld

  • 19617 MEDVL 1101   SEM 103

    • MWF Uris Hall 398
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Naeve, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi:
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:The Medea Myth From Anc Greece thru Mdl Ages

  • 19618 MEDVL 1101   SEM 104

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Art of Friendship in the Latin Middle Ages

  • 19619 MEDVL 1101   SEM 105

    • MW Uris Hall 204
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Thomas, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Medieval British Archaeology

  • 19620 MEDVL 1101   SEM 106

    • MW Uris Hall 302
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Wolff, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Medieval Migrations

  • 19621 MEDVL 1101   SEM 107

    • TR Uris Hall 204
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Zweers, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: In Rome's Shadow? Society&Cul in "Dark Age" I

  • 19813 MEDVL 1101   SEM 110

    • TR Uris Hall 302
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Barber, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: In Rome's Shadow? Society&Cul in "Dark Age" I

  • 19814 MEDVL 1101   SEM 111

    • TR Uris Hall G22
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Barber, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

MEDVL 1660

Globalization may seem like a recent hot topic, but it was already very much in vogue 1000 years ago when Norse explorers burst out of Scandinavia to journey as far as North America, Azerbaijan, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture. Discussion optional. Combined with: HIST 1660NES 1660

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7913 MEDVL 1660   LEC 001

    • TR Savage Hall 100
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Falk, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17475 MEDVL 1660   DIS 201

    • F White Hall 104
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17476 MEDVL 1660   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  6128 MEDVL 2170   SEM 101

    • TR Malott Hall 230
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Garrote Pascual, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 2655

At the beginning of the 7th century, a new religion, Islam, appeared in Arabia and by the end of the century, Muslims had defeated the Byzantines and Persians and created an empire that stretched from ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2530NES 2655RELST 2655

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6757 MEDVL 2655   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  6135 MEDVL 3110   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 3190

Chaucer became known as the "father of English poetry" before he was entirely cold in his grave. Why is what he wrote more than six hundred years ago still riveting for us today? It's not just because ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3190

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17472 MEDVL 3190   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 3255

An introduction to the art, history, and literature of the Byzantine Empire, its neighbors, and successors, ca. 500-1500. view course details

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  • 18847 MEDVL 3255   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  6525 MEDVL 3315   LEC 001

    • MWF McGraw Hall 145
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Stefansdottir, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 3530

This course examines the cultural and historical interaction of Muslims and Jews from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century through the classical age of Islam down to the turn of the thirteenth ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 3530NES 3530RELST 3530

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17951 MEDVL 3530   SEM 101

    • W White Hall 104
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Brann, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 3677

As the founder of Islam Muhammad is one of the most influential figures in world history. An important source for his life is the Sira of Ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 761), a biography that opens with Muhammad's ... view course details

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  • 17985 MEDVL 3677   SEM 101

    • MW Sibley Hall 211
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Powers, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 3750

Introduction and training in dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) and its applications in archaeology, art history, climate and environment through lab work and participation in ongoing research projects ... view course details

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  •  6131 MEDVL 3750   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6132 MEDVL 3750   LAB 401

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 4754

This seminar provides a higher-level general introduction to, and survey of, contemporary theories, methods, and approaches in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Rather than focusing on a specific ... view course details

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  • 17568 MEDVL 4754   SEM 101

    • M Sibley Hall 318
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Barrett, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 6020

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATIN 7262PHIL 6020RELST 6020

  • 1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6134 MEDVL 6020   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 6102

This course is an introduction to and survey of Latin scripts from Roman antiquity through the early Renaissance, with an emphasis on the identification, localization, and reading of scripts. Class meetings ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATIN 7222

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18511 MEDVL 6102   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3110ENGL 6110MEDVL 3110

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6136 MEDVL 6110   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 6145

If "the past is a foreign country," is it a country full of oppressed women?  We can, with some smugness, agree that it may have been dreadful to be a woman or sexual minority in the Middle Ages, but it's ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6145

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17432 MEDVL 6145   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 6210

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

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  • Topic: Augustine's Philosophy of Mind

  •  8175 MEDVL 6210   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 6330

This course examines the cultural and historical interaction of Muslims and Jews from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century through the classical age of Islam down to the turn of the thirteenth ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: JWST 6330NES 6330RELST 6330

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17958 MEDVL 6330   SEM 101

    • F
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Brann, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 6677

As the founder of Islam Muhammad is one of the most influential figures in world history. An important source for his life is the Sira of Ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 761), a biography that opens with Muhammad's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19354 MEDVL 6677   SEM 101

    • MW Sibley Hall 211
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Powers, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 6754

This seminar provides a higher-level general introduction to, and survey of, contemporary theories, methods, and approaches in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Rather than focusing on a specific ... view course details

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  • 17574 MEDVL 6754   SEM 101

    • M Sibley Hall 318
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Barrett, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 7220

In this course we will explore the historical processes by which Chinese documents have been compiled, curated, and re-curated. We will examine the theoretical and methodological implications of those ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 7722HIST 7220

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17708 MEDVL 7220   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

MEDVL 8010

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4743 MEDVL 8010   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Hill, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6334 MEDVL 8010   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Dubreuil, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

MEDVL 8020

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4744 MEDVL 8020   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
    • Hicks, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies