SPAN 4380

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SPAN 4380
The Medieval Senses

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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.


Prerequisites SPAN 2095, CASE Q++, or permission of instructor.

Distribution Requirements (CA-AG, LA-AG), (ALC-AS, FLOPI-AS)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2024SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3749 SPAN 4380   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Pinet, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person