Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin

Medieval Studies Course List 2007-2008

Leave of Absence

2007-2008 Anne Dunlop
Fall 2007 Alastair Minnis
Fall 2007 Denys Turner
Fall 2007  Paul Freedman
Fall 2007 Maria Rosa Menocal
Spring/Fall 2008 Robert Nelson
Spring 2008  Anders Winroth

FALL -2007
 
Monday

English  502 Advanced Old English
Roberta Frank 
9:25-11:15

HSAR  597 Word and Image in Byzantium
Robert Nelson
1:30-3:20

History 542  Law in Medieval Europe
Anders Winroth  
1:30-3:20

NELC 846   Seminar in the Philosophy of Avicenna: Theory of the Soul, Prophecy, Mysticism.  Knowledge of Advanced Classical Arabic
Dimitri Gutas
3:30-5:20 313 HGS

Tuesday

ARBC 505       Arabic Seminar:  Poetry Anthology and Commentary
Beatrice Gruendler       
2:30-4:30  508 SML

English 500   Introduction to Old English
Traugott Lawler
11:35-12:50

German 609   Medieval Songs of Love and War
W. Whobrey    
11:35-12:45  

Wednesday

English 531 Middle English cycle Drama
Nicole Rice
1:30-3:20

French 610  Introduction to Old French Language & Literature
Howard Bloch
3:30-5:20

NELC 850   Introduction to Classical Arabic and Islamic Studies.  Knowledge Of Arabic at Intermediate level required.
Dimitri Gutas
 2:30-4:20  508 SML

MDVL 551  Theologies of Love in the Twelfth Century Renaissance
Margot Fassler
1:30-3:20

Thursday

English 500  Introduction to Old English
Traugott Lawler
11:35-12:50

German 609 Medieval Songs of Love and War
William Whobrey 
11:35-12:45

History 829 From Medina to Constantinople: The Middle East from 600-1517
Adel Allouche
1:30-3:20         (cross-listed with NELC830)

MDVL 551  Theologies of Love in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Margot Fassler
1:30-3:20

NELC 555a  Classical Arabic Literature in Translation
Beatrice Gruendler  
2:30-4:20        

SPRING 2008

550b Directed Reading
"The Bible and It's Exegesis in the Twelfth Century"
Margot Fassler Day & Time TBA

Monday

English 500       Beowulf
Roberta Frank 
9:25-11:15

English 546       Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales:  Discourses of Dissent
Alastair Minnis
3:30-5:20

NELC 831   Graeco-Arabic Seminar. Aristotle’s Poetics and its Medieval Arabic reception:the translation and the commentaries by Avicenna and Averroes.  Any two of these languages are required:  Greek, Arabic, Latin.
Dimitri Gutas           
3:30-5:20  313 HGS

Tuesday

ARBC 505        Arabic Seminar.  Study and interpretation of Classical Arabic texts for advanced students.
Dimitri Gutas
3:30-5:20  313 HGS

History 541     Jews in Christian and Muslim Lands from the Fourth to the Sixteenth Century.
Ivan Marcus 
1:30-3:20  

History 550      Medieval Social History           
Paul Freedman
1:30-3:20        

Wednesday

French 812       “The Old French Fabliaux”
Howard Bloch 
3:30-5:20

NELC 524   Egyptian Literature through the Ages
Colleen Manassa and Beatrice Gruendler
3:30-5:20 

Thursday

NELC 513   Layla and Majnun
Readings of the classical love story from its earliest versions
Beatrice Gruendler
3:30-5:20   TH