Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
MEDVL 1101
Course Description
Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will in some way address the subject of medieval culture. Consult the John S. Knight Institute Current Courses webpage to access current year ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Heaven and Hell
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
Instructors
Berry, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Medieval Crossdressings
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF
Instructors
Chauncy, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Medieval Migrations-Globaliz & Medvl Imagining
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
Instructors
Zweers, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
MEDVL 1740
Course Description
This course explores the history of imperial China between the 3rd century b.c.e. and the 16th century c.e. with a focus on the following questions: How did imperial Chinese states go about politically ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2740, CAPS 1740, HIST 1740
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
MEDVL 2355
Course Description
Survey lecture course covering the creation, encoding, and reception of Medieval (roughly AD 500-1500) European, Byzantine, and Islamic architecture, ornament, manuscripts, liturgical and luxury objects. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2355
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Anderson, B
Robinson, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Anderson, B
Robinson, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
MEDVL 2555
Course Description
This course will introduce students to the study of sex and sexuality in the medieval and early modern Islamic World, ending at the dawn of the twentieth century; we will begin with the study of desire ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 2555, NES 2555, RELST 2555
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 2590
Course Description
This course focuses on the ideas and practices of Crusading, from its birth ca. 1100 to the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1292. We explore the roots of Crusading in Christian Europe and in the Islamic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 2590
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Falk, O
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
MEDVL 2722
Course Description
From the poet-kings of medieval Persia to the trading networks of the famed "Silk Road" to the wandering mystics of Herat to the constitutional revolution of Iran to the colonial and post-colonial occupations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2294, NES 2722, RELST 2722
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 3120
Course Description
Beowulf has received renewed attention in popular culture, thanks to the production of recent movies and riveting new translations. The poem's popular appeal lies in its complex depictions of monsters, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3120, ENGL 6120, MEDVL 6120
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 3212
Course Description
An introduction to some of the major thinkers and philosophical developments in the Islamic world from the 9th to the 14th centuries CE. Figures include Muslim thinkers such as Al-Kindī, Al-Rāzī, Al-Fārābī, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 6210, NES 3212, PHIL 3212, PHIL 6210, RELST 6210
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 3316
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 3316
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 3448
Course Description
Sufism, popularly understood as Islamic mysticism, is a loose name given to a broad and diverse collection of beliefs, practices and groups that range and vary across time and space. Going from a small ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3448, NES 3448, RELST 3448
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 3530
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 3530, JWST 6330, MEDVL 6330, NES 3530, NES 6330, RELST 3530, RELST 6330
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 4201
Course Description
This topics seminar will explore genres, forms, and theories of Medieval Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (with a few forays into the fourteenth century and beyond). Topics include biblical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 4223, LATIN 7223, MEDVL 6201
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 4910
Course Description
'Violence' has become an unavoidable - and urgently troubling - buzzword in contemporary Western culture. We worry about its manifestations and representations in our own civilization, we scan foreign ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4910, HIST 6920, MEDVL 6910
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Falk, O
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
MEDVL 4963
Course Description
Theories of modernization have inspired, informed, and plagued histories of middle and late imperial China. For the Song-Qing eras (roughly 10th-19th centuries), comparative studies have variously found ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 4461, ASIAN 6661, CAPS 4963, HIST 4963, HIST 6963, MEDVL 6963
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
MEDVL 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, PHIL 6020, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 6120
Course Description
Beowulf has received renewed attention in popular culture, thanks to the production of recent movies and riveting new translations. The poem's popular appeal lies in its complex depictions of monsters, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3120, ENGL 6120, MEDVL 3120
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 6201
Course Description
This topics seminar will explore genres, forms, and theories of Medieval Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (with a few forays into the fourteenth century and beyond). Topics include biblical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 4223, LATIN 7223, MEDVL 4201
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 6210
Course Description
Graduate seminar covering a topic in medieval philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 3212, NES 3212, PHIL 3212, PHIL 6210, RELST 6210
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Philosophy in the Islamic World (800-1400)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
MacDonald, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Department Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 6210, RELST 6210
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 6310
Course Description
Topic: Writing Through the Forest in Search of Trees. Hello, Humanities Student! Are you a plotter or a pantser? Not sure? Come and join us to find out, and to gain valuable insight into what kind of a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6310, JWST 6310, NES 6700, RELST 6310, SPAN 6590
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
MEDVL 6330
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 3530, JWST 6330, MEDVL 3530, NES 3530, NES 6330, RELST 3530, RELST 6330
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 6448
Course Description
Sufism, popularly understood as Islamic mysticism, is a loose name given to a broad and diverse collection of beliefs, practices and groups that range and vary across time and space. Going from a small ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6448, NES 6448, RELST 6448
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 6910
Course Description
'Violence' has become an unavoidable - and urgently troubling - buzzword in contemporary Western culture. We worry about its manifestations and representations in our own civilization, we scan foreign ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4910, HIST 6920, MEDVL 4910
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Falk, O
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
MEDVL 6963
Course Description
Theories of modernization have inspired, informed, and plagued histories of middle and late imperial China. For the Song-Qing eras (roughly 10th-19th centuries), comparative studies have variously found ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 4461, ASIAN 6661, CAPS 4963, HIST 4963, HIST 6963, MEDVL 4963
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R
- Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
MEDVL 8010
Course Description
This course gives students the opportunity to work with a selected instructor to pursue special interests or research not treated in regularly scheduled courses. After getting permission of the instructor, ... view course details
MEDVL 8020
Course Description
This course should be used for an independent study in which a small group of students works with one member of the graduate faculty. After getting permission of the instructor, students should contact ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)