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  • MEDI-UA 60: Philosophy in the Middle Ages

    4.00 Credits
    New York University

    Study of major medieval philosophers, their issues, schools, and current philosophic interests. Includes, among others, Augustine, Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham.
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  • MEDI-UA 712: Medieval Theatre

    4.00 Credits
    New York University

    Survey of medieval theatre in Europe: the plays and their contexts in the church, courts, and carnival. A study of the plays themselves, ranging from mystery plays to farces, and a look at techniques of staging and accounts of festive celebrations. Includes videos and attendance at live performances. Texts are taught in translation.
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  • MEDI-UA 800: Arthurian Legend

    4.00 Credits
    New York University

    Beginning with early stories of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, the course focuses on masterpieces of French, English, and German medieval literature. Through the European literary tradition, students examine larger problems of the development of medieval literature: the conception of history, the rise of the romance genre, the themes of courtly love, the code of chivalry, and philosophical and theological questions as the Arthurian material is developed through the stories of the Holy Grail.
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  • MEDI-UA 801: Dante and His World

    4.00 Credits
    New York University

    Interdisciplinary introduction to late medieval culture, using Dante, its foremost literary artist, as courses Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies a focus. Attention is directed to literature, art, and music, in addition to political, religious, and social developments of the time. Emphasizes the continuity of the Western tradition, especially the classical background of medieval culture and its transmission to the modern world.
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  • MEDI-UA 868: Acting Medieval Literature

    4.00 Credits
    New York University

    Presents medieval literature as a set of springboards to performance rather than as a series of books to be read. In this strongly performance-oriented course, students approach this "literature" as works that were acted out, sung, and narrated from memory as part of a storytelling tradition. Students are invited to draw on their dramatic and musical skills and interests and stage medieval works. For their final project, students participate in staging and putting on a play, performing a substantial piece of narrative poetry, singing or playing a body of medieval songs, or choosing a similar activity. Works studied/ performed include songs of the troubadours and trouvères; The Song of Roland; Chrétien de Troyes's romance, Yvain; French fabliaux; and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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  • MEDI-UA 961: Passion and Desire in the Middle Ages

    2.00 Credits
    New York University

    Study of the kinds of loves and desires portrayed in medieval literature: passionate love; refined "courtly" love; sexual or "carnal" love; love of kin; love of country; love of God. Discusses how literary genres can be largely defined by the nature of the desires represented, explores medieval theorists' views of human love, and investigates the conflicts among different kinds of love for medieval people.
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  • MEDI-UA 980, 981: Internship

    1.00 - 4.00 Credits
    New York University

    Working with a faculty director, the student secures a relevant internship and writes a substantial report.
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  • MEDI-UA 983, 984: Topics in Medieval Studies

    4.00 Credits
    New York University

    Varies in content from term to term, focusing on special themes. Recent offerings include Tolkien and Lewis: The Medievalist's Answer to Modernism; Religion and Identity in Medieval Europe; The Kiss; Gothic Romance; Music and Cosmology; Poets, Patrons, and Public in Medieval Lyric; Gender Issues in the Art of the Middle Ages; Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages; Doomsday: The Last Judgment in Medieval Culture; Medieval Minstrels; Angels; Sexual Transgression in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Saints: Lore and Legend; The Troubadours: Lyrics, Love, and War; Early Irish Art; The Middle Ages at the Movies; and The Medieval Book (held at the Pierpont Morgan Library).
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  • MEDI-UA 985, 986: Studies in Medieval Culture

    4.00 Credits
    New York University

    This course, varying in content from term to term, focuses on special themes. Recent offerings include Love, Marriage, and the Family in Medieval Europe; Medieval Peasantry; Medieval Architecture at the Cloisters; The Medieval Manuscript and the Book of Hours; Medieval Theatre; The Wisdom Tradition; Medieval Literature in the Movies; Law and Moral Issues in Medieval Philosophy; Martyrs, Mystics, and Prophets; Happiness in the Christian Middle Ages; The Medieval Book: Materials, Forms, and Uses; and Two Medieval Minds.
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  • MEDI-UA 991, 992: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

    4.00 Credits
    New York University

    Each semester, the course is devoted to a topic chosen for its interdisciplinary character. Recent offerings have included Chaucer's Italy; The Bible in the Middle Ages; Renaissance Libraries; Millenarianism; 1497-1498: The Renaissance at Full Tilt; Visions of Medieval History; The Age of Chivalry; The World of the Celts; Apocalypse, Then: Visions of the End in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Journey in Medieval Christian Theology; Interpreting the Medieval World; Idealization and Satire in the 16th Century; The 12th-Century Renaissance; The Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages; Christian Culture in the Middle Ages; Literature and Culture of the Renaissance; Renaissance Monarchy; Medieval and Renaissance Travel Journals; and The Structure of Knowledge in the Renaissance.
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