Medieval Studies Courses Offered at Haverford College

Fall 2022

HISTH111A001. Ruin and Renewal: Europe to 1500

Classical Studies

215 Tales of Troy

East Asian Studies

260 Mid-Imperial China (ca. AD 800-1600)
267 Topics in Comparative History: The Medieval Transformation of Eurasia, circa 1000-1400

English

201 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
205 Legends of Arthur
213 Inventing [the] English
220 The Epic in English
224 Early Modern Travel Narratives
301 Topics in Medieval English Literature
302 Speaking in Tongues (sometimes a MS course)
385 Apocalyptic Literature

History

111 Introduction to Western Civilization (Fall of Rome to 1600)
118 Introduction to the History of Science
237 Geographies of History and the Occult in Early Modern Europe
350 Courtly Science in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Italian

ITAL B215 The City of Naples

Music

220 Saints and Sinners: Musical Europe before 1400
221 Music, Ritual and Representation 1400-1600

Religion

206 History and Literature of Early Christianity
221 Women and Gender in Early Christianity
251 Comparative Mystical Literature
260 Getting Medieval: Tolerance, Persecution and Religious Violence
302 Christians, Muslims and Jews: Religion and Literature in Medieval Spain
353 Seminar in Islamic Philosophy and Theology: The Politics of Hidden Knowledge