College of Arts & Sciences
Medieval Studies
Coordinator Richard Landes
Art History Kahn
English Appleford, Green, Levine
History Backman, Glick, Landes
Romance Studies Costa, Kleiman, Zaderenko
Religion Fredriksen, Katz, Klepper, Lobel
Medieval Studies Minor Concentration (2217)
The medieval studies minor concentration supplements traditional concentrations for students specially interested in the Middle Ages. The minor concentration consists of six courses selected with the approval of an advisor belonging to the medieval studies faculty. Courses are selected from the approved list, plus any others whose relevance can be demonstrated, notably “topics” courses, independent study, and appropriate courses in the College of Fine Arts, e.g., CFA MU 223. Each student’s program of study will be tentatively determined in advance with a view to intellectual cohesiveness; a program will be circulated among the medieval studies faculty for comment, then examined for final approval by a review board consisting of three faculty members. A grade of C or higher is required in each course; at least four courses must be at the 300 level or higher.
Approved Courses
Archaeology
CAS AR 273 Archaeology of the Viking Age
Art History
CAS AH 111 Introduction to Art History I: Antiquity to the Middle Ages
CAS AH 240 Medieval Art
CAS AH 345 Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
CAS AH 444 Seminar: Medieval Art
Classical Studies
CAS CL 303 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CAS CL 310 The Classical Tradition in Modern Literature
CAS CL 317 Greek and Roman Religion
English
CAS EN 515, 516 History of the English Language
CAS EN 521, 522 Literature of the Middle Ages
CAS EN 561 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
History
CAS HI 203 History of Medieval Europe
CAS HI 308 History of the Crusades
CAS HI 309 Millenarian Expectations in Western History, Year 1–2000
CAS HI 310 Heresy and Prosecution in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
CAS HI 318 England in the Middle Ages
CAS HI 327 Early Medieval Spain
CAS HI 331 French Feudal Society: 496–1339
CAS HI 381 The Samurai in Myth and History
CAS HI 389 Introduction to Early Chinese History
CAS HI 392 Introduction to the Middle East
CAS HI 406 Monks, Friars, and Saints
CAS HI 409 Medieval Science and Technology
CAS HI 411 Europe and the Millennium
CAS HI 412 Popular Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
CAS HI 486 Islamic History
Modern Languages & Comparative Literature
CAS LJ 282 The Culture of the Samurai (in English translation)
CAS LL 383 Dante’s Hell (in English translation)
Philosophy
CAS PH 407 Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics
CAS PH 408 History of Medieval Philosophy
Religion
CAS RN 207 Myth and Religion in Literature
CAS RN 212 Christianity
CAS RN 214 Islam
CAS RN 219 Mysticism and Philosophy: Medieval Jewish Perspectives
CAS RN 242 Magic, Science, and Religion (meets with CAS HI 306)
CAS RN 307 Medieval Christian Spirituality
CAS RN 322 History of Judaism
CAS RN 325 Jewish Mysticism
CAS RN 341 Islamic Mysticism: Sufism
CAS RN 344 Islam and the West
CAS RN 413 Gender in Medieval Christian Mysticism
CAS RN 449 Dante’s Journey to God
CAS RN 470 Topics in Medieval Religious Cultures
Romance Studies
CAS LF 457 Medieval French Literature
CAS LF 564 Medieval Lyric
CAS LF 565 Medieval Courtly Literature
CAS LI 350 Italian Literature I: Medieval
CAS LI 555, 556 Dante: The Divine Comedy I, II
CAS LS 456 Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature
CAS LS 567 Spanish Poetry of the Middle Ages
CAS LS 568 Prose Fiction of the Spanish Middle Ages
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