Program in Medieval Studies

Sample Concentration Programs

Select concentration programs pursued by former students provide insight into the mix of courses concentrators have taken in the past.

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Sample Concentration Programs

Select concentration programs pursued by former students provide insight into the mix of courses concentrators have taken in the past.

The concentration programs described below were pursued by four concentrators in Medieval Cultures in past years. They provide an idea of the mix of courses selected by these students, who also wrote honors theses. These are just examples. Other students have developed different programs according to their interests.

Sample Program 1

Honors Thesis Topic: The Classical Heroine in the Medieval World: Elements of Latin and Greek Myth in the Medieval Legend of Albina

Courses

  • Medieval Latin
  • History of the Crusades
  • Early Medieval Europe
  • Chaucer
  • Arts du récit, 1100-1400
  • Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
  • Old English
  • Romances of Medieval Iberia
  • Dante
  • Manuscript, Image, Middle English Text

Sample Program 2

Courses

  • Intensive Survey of Spanish Literature
  • The Medieval King Arthur
  • Cities: Medieval Perspectives
  • The Viking Age
  • Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
  • Earliest British Literature
  • Unearthing the Body
  • The 1001 Nights
  • The Virgin Mary
  • The World of Byzantium

Sample Program 3

Courses

  • Globalism before Globalization
  • The Virgin Mary
  • The Medieval King Arthur
  • Cities: Medieval Perspectives
  • The World of Byzantium
  • The Long Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The Viking Age
  • Intro Old English Language
  • Europe in the High Middle Ages
  • Medieval Manuscript Studies

Sample Program 4

Courses

  • Sagas of the Medieval North
  • The World of Byzantium
  • Women's Voices in Medieval Literature
  • The Long Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The Viking Age
  • Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
  • Europe in the High Middle Ages
  • Sources for the History of Europe
  • Medieval Manuscript Studies
  • Dante in English Translation

Sample Themes

The following themes are among those that have been pursued by other concentrators:

  • The Medieval Islamic World
  • Medieval Judaism
  • Spain in the Middle Ages
  • Medieval Lingustics
  • Medieval Languages and Lyric Poetry
  • Medieval Archaeology
  • Late Latin Poetry

Medieval Cultures Track

Medieval Cultures focuses on the sixth through the fifteenth centuries and combines interdisciplinary perspectives on this period with an in-depth study of one or two related disciplines.

Medieval Studies DUG

The Medieval Studies DUG is group of concentrators that plans events and activities intended to build a sense of community within the Medieval Studies concentration.

Late Antique Cultures Track

Late Antique Cultures centers on the third through the ninth centuries inclusive and studies human activity in all its variety unrestricted by the conventional demarcations of “classical” and “medieval.”