GERM277

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GERM277

The High Middle Ages: The Culture of Europe Around The Year 1200 GERM277 SP

Crosslistings: MDST277, GELT277

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       20      0         20

Next Offered in 9899 SP

An introduction to the culture and history of medieval Europe in the twelfth century. Topics will include the specific violences of the Angevin, Capetian, and Hohenstaufen dynasties, the origins of the courtly love-relationship as documented in the love songs of the troubadours and in the courtly romance, the fictional violence of the heroic epics, and the transition from Romanesque to Gothic architecture, especially in France.

MAJOR READINGS

Marc Bloch, FEUDAL SOCIETY
Chretien de Troyes, COURTLY ROMANCES
Gottfried von Strassburg, TRISTAN
THE NIBELUNGENLIED
THE SONG OF ROLAND
Selections from the CARMINA BURANA
Amy Kelly, ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE AND THE FOUR KINGS
Whitney Stoddard, MONASTERY & CATHEDRAL IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
Benedict, THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT
Hildegard of Bingen, ORDO VIRTUTUM

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Papers, project reports, midterm and final exams.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA GERM

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

Detail of Reims Cathedral (ca. 1230) from Whitney Stoddard's "Monastery and Cathedral in Medieval France"

Reference:

Stoddard, Whitney S., MONASTERY AND CATHEDRAL IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1966

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