SPAN 4380

The Medieval Senses

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

The course will explore medieval culture through the five senses, emphasizing how the differences with our own knowledge and practice of the sensorium produce sets of questions and avenues for thought, attuning ourselves both to our sensorial environment and to the premodern imagination.  Moving between theoretical texts-philosophy, cognition, theology, perception-and case studies-literature, but also architecture, music, stained glass, manuscripts, etc. - we will examine the conceptualization and interpretation of the sensorium and experiment with ways of reconstructing or refreshioning the medieval in the modern.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: SPAN 2095, CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (ALC-AS, CA-AS)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

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