| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
Biblical and Patristic Materials |
Reader response 1 |
| 3 |
Hagiography: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages |
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| 4 |
Virgin Martyrdom in the Comic Mode |
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| 5 |
Transforming the Past |
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| 6 |
The Trivium: Scholasticism and the Literary Curriculum |
Reader response 2 |
| 7 |
Medieval Rhetoric and the Power of Emotions |
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| 8 |
The Self Reformed |
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| 9 |
Independent Research Project Presentations |
Oral reports |
| 10 |
Independent Research Project Presentations |
Oral reports |
| 11 |
Courtly Love and Self-presentation |
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| 12 |
Romance and Aristocratic Society |
Write-ups of oral reports due |
| 13 |
Adventures on the Celtic Fringe |
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| 14 |
The Quadrivium: Science in the Medieval Curriculum |
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| 15 |
The Science of Salvation |
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| 16 |
Spirituality and Courtly Love |
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| 17 |
Mysticism and Heresy |
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| 18 |
Affective Piety and Autobiography |
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| 19 |
The Disorders of Divine Love |
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| 20 |
Objects of Affection |
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| 21 |
Imitations of Love |
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| 22 |
Disciplines of the Self |
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| 23 |
Late Medieval Feminism |
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| 24 |
Allegories of Power |
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| 25 |
The Social Orders |
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| 26 |
The Crisis of Nationalism |
Final paper due |
