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Spring 2009 Course Listing

MED 303/ITA 303    Dante’s “Inferno”
Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta
Th 1:30 – 4:20
Intensive study of the “Inferno”, with major attention paid to poetic elements such as structure, allegory, narrative technique, and relation to earlier literature, principally the Latin classics.  Course conducted in Italian with highly interactive classes and preceptorials.

MED 412/ENG 416   Topics in Medieval Studies:  The North and the Medieval Imagination
Professor Sarah M. Anderson
W 7:30 – 10:20
The literature of medieval Iceland includes the saga, one of the most fully developed narrative forms in early European literature, and striking sorts of poetry that invent the cosmos, warn, and teach.  Through these Icelandic texts, we’ll investigate how history is told and imagined—as a record of events, as an intricately worked out story, as cultural argument.  We will also study medieval works from the British Isles whose mutually illuminating qualities will provoke us to analyze the textual connections among these entangled cultures of the North.

MED 511/ENG 511  Special Studies in Medieval Literature:  Medieval Education
Professor Rita Copeland
M 1:30 – 4:20
Education and intellectual culture from c 400 A.D.c 1400 A.D. across Europe:  arts of language (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic) as “packaged” in encyclopedias, treaties, and compendia; reconfigurations of knowledge systems for new uses (monastic schools, cathedral schools); differences between elementary and advanced reading: representations of children and childhood; women and intellectual discourse; universities and new ideas of intellectual formation; vernacular learning.  Primary texts:  treaties, institutional statutes, and student “guides”; intellectual biography; quadrivial learning.  All readings available in English.

Courses of Interest

ART 205 Medieval Art in Europe
Amity N. Law
TTh 2:30 – 3:20
P01 W 1:30 – 2:20
P02 W 2:30 – 3:20
P03 TBA

ART 434/ARC 434  Forms, Spaces and Vision in the Late Middle Ages
Amity N. Law
M 1:30 – 4:20

ENG 305 The Medieval Period
D.V. Smith
TTh 12:30 – 1:20
P01 TBA

HIS 343/CLA 343 The Civilization of the Early Middle Ages
Helmut Reimitz
TTh 11 – 11:50
P01 TBA

MUS 230 Music in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Rob Wegman
TTh 11 – 12:20

NES 408 The Hebrew Poetry of Medieval Spain
Andras Hamori
T 1:30 – 4:20

Graduate Courses

CLA 548/HLS548  Problems in Ancient History:  Ancient and Medieval Numismatics
Alan Stahl
Th 1:30 – 4:20

FRE 506 French Medieval Literature and Culture: Skins, Books, and the Self
Sarah Kay
Th 1:30 – 4:20

GER 508 Middle High German Literature:  An Introduction
Sara Poor
W 10 – 12:50

See Princeton University course pages for full course details.