Medieval Studies (MEDVL)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.
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- Schedule of Classes - June 19, 2018 12:09PM EDT
- Course Catalog - March 23, 2018 2:31PM EDT
Classes
MEDVL 1101
Course Description
No description available. 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:Imagining Empire—Symbols of Pwr in Mdvl World
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Barber, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Women in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G22
Instructors
D'Ignazio, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Getting Emotional in the Middle Ages
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G20
Instructors
Lawrence, R
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Shakespeare's Mdvl Kings
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
McLaughlin, M
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Orbis Terrarum—The Medieval Earth was a Globe
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Greenlee, J
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS:Anglo-Saxon World—Monsters/Warriors/Legends
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Sprenkle, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
MEDVL 1660
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 1660, NES 1660
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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 Rockefeller Hall 230
Instructors
Falk, O
MEDVL 2100
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2100
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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 Rockefeller Hall 103
Instructors
Hill, T
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 2170, SPAN 2170
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Garrote Pascual, A
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 Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Anderson, B
Robinson, C
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Anderson, B
Robinson, C
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Anderson, B
Robinson, C
MEDVL 2676
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: JWST 2676, NES 2676, RELST 2676
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Brann, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 110
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Sibley Hall 115
Instructors
Brann, R
MEDVL 3120
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3120, ENGL 6120, MEDVL 6120
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Zacher, S
MEDVL 3190
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3190
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Raskolnikov, M
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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Stefansdottir, B
MEDVL 4002
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 6020, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
MEDVL 4170
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4170, ENGL 6171, MEDVL 6170
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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
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Galloway, A
MEDVL 6020
Course Description
Reading and translation of Latin philosophical texts. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATIN 7262, MEDVL 4002, PHIL 4002, PHIL 6020, RELST 4100, RELST 6020
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 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
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Zacher, S
MEDVL 6170
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4170, ENGL 6171, MEDVL 4170
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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
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Galloway, A
MEDVL 6210
Course Description
Graduate seminar covering a topic in medieval philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4665, PHIL 4210, PHIL 6210, RELST 4665
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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
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
MacDonald, S
MEDVL 7220
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 7722, HIST 7220
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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 Kroch, Carl A Library B59
Instructors
Hinrichs, T