Medieval Studies

2026-2027

82 courses

MDVL 10030Introduction to the Qur'an
MDVL 10101Introduction to African Civilization I
MDVL 10105Introduction to Old Turkic I
MDVL 11040Encountering the Qur'an: Scripture, History, and Reception
MDVL 12000Jewish Civilization I: Ancient Beginnings to Medieval Period
MDVL 12203Italian Renaissance: Petrarch, Machiavelli, and the Wars of Popes and Kings
MDVL 12500Introduction to the New Testament: Texts and Contexts of Interpretation
MDVL 14200Introduction to Medieval Art
MDVL 15240Medieval Death
MDVL 15600Medieval English Literature
MDVL 16900Ancient Mediterranean World III: Late Antiquity
MDVL 20012Ancient Empires II: The Ottoman Empire
MDVL 20022Documentary Cultures in Early Islamicate Societies
MDVL 20120Eastern Christianity: The First Thousand Years
MDVL 20124The Bible Throughout History: From the Dead Sea Scrolls to King James
MDVL 20202Islamicate Civilization II: 950-1750
MDVL 20501Islamic History and Society I: The Rise of Islam and the Caliphate
MDVL 20522Archaeology of Islamic Syria-Palestine
MDVL 20530Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
MDVL 20601Islamic Thought and Literature I
MDVL 20602Islamic Thought and Literature II
MDVL 20605Colloquium: Sources for the Study of Islamic History
MDVL 20808Biography of the Prophet Muhammad
MDVL 21014Medieval Indian Cities
MDVL 21100A Medieval Menagerie: Animal Spirituality in the Middle Ages
MDVL 21330Despair and Consolation: Emotion and Affect in Late-Medieval and Reformation Christianity
MDVL 21506Medieval Visions
MDVL 21700Le Roman de la Rose
MDVL 21705Iberian Literatures and Cultures: Medieval and Early Modern
MDVL 21900Dante's Divine Comedy 1: Inferno
MDVL 21901Beyond the Canon: The New Testament Apocrypha
MDVL 22002Money in Medieval Europe
MDVL 22003Dante's Divine Comedy II: Purgatorio
MDVL 22101Dante's Divine Comedy III: Paradiso
MDVL 22123Natural Law in the Hist of Scholastic Political Thought: Aquinas, Vitoria, Suárez, Hooker, Grotius
MDVL 22125Nature, Consent, and the Origins of Political Authority
MDVL 22350Speaking Truth to Power in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
MDVL 22409Studying Medieval History
MDVL 22910Medieval Beasts
MDVL 23101Early Italian Lyric: Dante and His Rivals
MDVL 23425Love in the Middle Ages
MDVL 23502Boccaccio's Decameron
MDVL 23510The Arts of Language in the Middle Ages: The Trivium
MDVL 23518Colloquium: How to Be Good
MDVL 23519The Arts of Number in the Middle Ages: The Quadrivium
MDVL 23625Middle Ages on Film
MDVL 23809Pain, Truth, and Justice
MDVL 23823Melancholy: Readings in Medieval Christian Literature
MDVL 24103Nature and the Natural in the Middle Ages
MDVL 24202Indian Philosophy II: The Classical Traditions
MDVL 24275Chinese Buddhist Omnicentrism: Tiantai and Huayan
MDVL 24276Tiantai Buddhism and Neo-Tiantai Thinking: Recontextualizations of Recontextualizationism
MDVL 24550Major Trends in Islamic Mysticism
MDVL 24590Readings in Islamic Theology
MDVL 24623Dante's Inferno: Judging the Earthly World
MDVL 24803History of Sexuality and Sin
MDVL 25102Reading Augustine's Confessions
MDVL 25218Suhrawardi and His Interpreters
MDVL 25400Readings in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
MDVL 25809Islamic and Jewish Political Philosophy
MDVL 26001Religion and Visual Culture in the Late Antique Mediterranean
MDVL 26002Philosophical Petrarchism
MDVL 26250Buddhist Poetry in India
MDVL 26314Judaism and Science
MDVL 26523Dante's Vita Nuova: a Revolutionary Love
MDVL 26700Jeanne d'Arc, histoire et legende
MDVL 26706Humor and Judaism in the Middle Ages
MDVL 27020Christianity and Islam in the Western Mediterranean World during the Late Middle Ages
MDVL 27880Labor, Sex, and Magic: Celestina and Other Witches
MDVL 28013Love, Desire, and Sexuality in Islamic Texts and Contexts
MDVL 28311Image, Iconoclasm, Animation
MDVL 28319Iconophobia: The Prohibition and Destruction of Religious Images
MDVL 28325Art and Description in Antiquity and Byzantium
MDVL 28328Africa's Byzantine Heritage: Religion and Art in Pluralistic Societies
MDVL 28404Introduction to Old English
MDVL 28405Old English Riddles (Med. Research Sequence II)
MDVL 28705Christian Iconography
MDVL 29004Ekphrasis: Art, Description and Religion
MDVL 29104Antisemitism and Islamophobia, Historically and Today
MDVL 29806Archival Methods and Historical Thinking