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CLASS SYLLABUS
| Week 1 |
| Wednesday, January 12 |
Introduction to the Course |
| Week 2 |
| Monday, January 17 |
No Class. Martin Luther King Day |
| Wednesday, January 19 |
Introduction to Medieval Literature |
| Week 3 |
| Monday, January 24 |
Introduction to Medieval Art
(Written Assignment in Art #1, Due January 31)
Reading: Elizabeth Sears, "Reading Images", Reading Medieval Images, ed. E.
Sears and T. Thomas, University of Michigan Press, 2002, 1-7 |
| Wednesday, January 26 |
Anglo Saxon Literature, The Battle of Malden; A Wife's Complaint; Riddles |
| Week 4 |
| Monday, January 31 |
Anglo Saxon Literature, Beowulf
(Written Assignment in Literature #1, Due February 7) |
| Wednesday, February 2 |
Anglo Saxon Literature, Beowulf |
| Week 5 |
| Monday, February 7 |
Anglo Saxon Art. Reading the Evidence, Constructing the Story
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
Reading: Angela Care Evans, "Sutton Hoo: Poetry and Style", The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, British Museum Press, 1986, 111-117.
C. L. Wrenn, "Sutton Hoo and Beowulf", An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism", ed. L. Nicholson, University of Notre Dame Press, 1963, 311-330 (not required reading) |
| Wednesday, February 9 |
Hiberno Saxon Art. Icons and Narratives
The Book of Kells and the Ruthwell Cross
Reading: Carol Farr, "Conclusions", The Book of Kells. Its Function and Audience", University of Toronto Press, 1997, 140-161.
Maidie Hilmo, "Visual and Verbal Manifestations of the Dual Nature of Christ on the Ruthwell Cross", Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts, Ashgate, 2004, 31-59. |
| Week 6 |
| Monday, February 14 |
The Song of Roland |
| Wednesday, February 16 |
Piers Plowman, Passus 1 and Passus 18 |
| Week 7 |
| Monday, February 21 |
Carolingian and Ottonian Art. Imperial Ideology and Christian Narrative
The Vivian Bible, the Gospel Book of Otto III and the Hildesheim Doors
(Written Assignment in Art #2. Due February 28)
Reading: Harvey Stahl, "Eve's Reach: A Note on Dramatic elements in the Hildesheim Doors", Reading Medieval Images, ed. E. Sears and T. Thomas, University of Michigan Press, 2002, 162-175 |
| Wednesday, February 23 |
Romanesque Art. Pictorial Epic
The Bayeux Tapistry
Reading: Suzanne Lewis, "Narrative Strategies and Visible Signs", The Rhetoric of Power in the Bayeux Tapestry, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 30-73. |
| Week 8 |
| Monday February 28 |
Marie de France, Bisclavre; Travels of Marco Polo
(Written Assignment in Literature #2, Due March 14) |
| Wednesday, March 2 |
Midterm Exam |
| Week 9 |
Spring Break |
| Week 10 |
| Monday, March 14 |
Meyer Schapiro and Romanesque Sculpture
The Sculpture at Souillac
Reading: Meyer Schapiro, "The Sculpture of Souillac", Selected Papers Romanesque Art, Braziller, 1977, 102-130. |
| Wednesday, March 16 |
Thirteenth-Century Gothic Art. Typology and Exegesis
The Good Samaritan and Charlemagne Windows at Chartres Cathedral
The Moralized Bibles of Louis IX
Reading: Wolfgang Kemp, "Typological Narrative", The Narratives of Gothic Stained Glass", Cambridge University Press, 1997, 79-88. |
| Week 11 |
| Monday, March 21 |
Dante's Inferno |
| Wednesday, March 23 |
Dante's Inferno |
| Week 12 |
| Monday, March 28 |
Fourteenth-Century Gothic Art. Constructions of Social Fiction
The Luttrell Psalter
(Research Paper, Due April 20)
Reading: Michael Camille, "Labouring for the Lord: The Ploughman and the Social Order in the Luttrell Psalter", Word and Image, 10/4, 1987, 423-454. |
| Monday, March 30 |
The Douce Apocalypse
Reading: Suzanne Lewis, "Exegesis and Illustration in Thirteenth-Century English Apocalypses, The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed. R. Emmerson and B. McGinn, Cornell University Press, 1992, 259-273.
Michael Camille, "Visionary Perception and Images of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages", The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed, R. Emmerson and B. McGinn, Cornell University Press, 1992, 276-289. |
| Week 13 |
| Monday, April 4 |
Chaucer The Wife of Bath's Tale |
| Wednesday, April 6 |
Chaucer The Wife of Bath's Tale |
| Week 14 |
| Monday, April 11 |
Imaging Social Status Très riches heures |
| Wednesday, April 13 |
Art of the Merchant Class |
| Week 15 |
| Monday, April 18 |
Land of Cokayne (literature) |
| Wednesday, April 20 |
Land of Cokayne (painting)
Research Paper Due |
| Week 16 |
| Monday, April 25 |
Discussion |
| Wednesday, April 27 |
Final Exam |
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