Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences

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MEDVL 1101

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Imagining Empire—Symbols of Pwr in Mdvl World

  • 17702 MEDVL 1101   SEM 101

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Women in Anglo-Saxon Literature

  • 17703 MEDVL 1101   SEM 102

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Getting Emotional in the Middle Ages

  • 17704 MEDVL 1101   SEM 103

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Shakespeare's Mdvl Kings

  • 17705 MEDVL 1101   SEM 104

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Orbis Terrarum—The Medieval Earth was a Globe

  • 17707 MEDVL 1101   SEM 105

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

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  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Anglo-Saxon World—Monsters/Warriors/Legends

  • 17706 MEDVL 1101   SEM 106

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

MEDVL 1660

Globalisation 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.  Combined with: HIST 1660NES 1660

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17298 MEDVL 1660   LEC 001

MEDVL 2100

The course will survey some medieval narratives concerned with representative voyages to the otherworld or with the impinging of the otherworld upon ordinary experience. The syllabus will normally include ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2100

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15008 MEDVL 2100   LEC 001

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

  •  7627 MEDVL 2170   SEM 101

MEDVL 2355

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2355

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9479 MEDVL 2355   LEC 001

  •  9480 MEDVL 2355   DIS 201

  •  9481 MEDVL 2355   DIS 202

MEDVL 2676

Articulating and elaborating religious justifications for war is a cultural practice unique to the three monotheistic traditions and their respective textual communities. This notion and its practice have ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: JWST 2676NES 2676RELST 2676

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17985 MEDVL 2676   LEC 001

  • 18061 MEDVL 2676   DIS 201

  • 18062 MEDVL 2676   DIS 202

  • 18063 MEDVL 2676   DIS 203

MEDVL 3120

In recent years, Beowulf has received renewed attention in popular culture, thanks to the production of two recent Beowulf movies and riveting new translations (eg. Seamus Heaney). The poem's appeal lies ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3120ENGL 6120MEDVL 6120

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7624 MEDVL 3120   SEM 101

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

  • 15953 MEDVL 3190   SEM 101

MEDVL 3316

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 3316

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7417 MEDVL 3316   LEC 001

MEDVL 4002

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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  •  7604 MEDVL 4002   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • MacDonald, S

MEDVL 4170

This seminar will explore and write about manuscripts, handwriting, literacy, printers, and other issues linking material and social book-making to "literary history." As a class, we will focus on the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4170ENGL 6171MEDVL 6170

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17708 MEDVL 4170   SEM 101

MEDVL 6020

Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details

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  •  7605 MEDVL 6020   SEM 101

    • TBA
    • MacDonald, S

MEDVL 6120

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3120ENGL 6120MEDVL 3120

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7625 MEDVL 6120   SEM 101

MEDVL 6170

This seminar will explore and write about manuscripts, handwriting, literacy, printers, and other issues linking material and social book-making to "literary history." As a class, we will focus on the ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4170ENGL 6171MEDVL 4170

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17713 MEDVL 6170   SEM 101

MEDVL 6210

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

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  • 16805 MEDVL 6210   SEM 101

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

  • 17803 MEDVL 7220   SEM 101

MEDVL 8010

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6108 MEDVL 8010   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

MEDVL 8020

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6107 MEDVL 8020   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Galloway, A

      Hicks, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9491 MEDVL 8020   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Hicks, A