Medieval Architecture

Social histories of medieval buildings from c.300 - c. 1400 CE., with particular attention to space, audience and experience. Course themes include: architecture and remembrance in the early Christian period; liturgy and ritual; gendered spaces in medieval monasteries; architects, masons and engineering; castles and the ideology of conquest; late medieval civic architecture; timber/stone construction; symbolism in the Gothic cathedral; and cross-cultural forms. Also offered as lower-level.