Brains, Brawn, and Heart: Women in Medieval Iberian Literature

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course will examine a panorama of vastly differing depictions of women in Medieval Iberia, in texts written almost exclusively by men. Through a selection of prose and verse from the 13th to 16th centuries, we will consider questions such as loyalty and betrayal, submission and rebellion, piety and blasphemy, and love and rejection.