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[Fall 2006]
CLEN G6028 Medieval Animals
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Prof.
Susan Crane
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Course design: Each week's readings
raise a number of questions, often intersecting and contradictory,
about what other animals have meant to humans, what kinds
of contact with them are valued and abhorred, what their
symbolic and material uses have been, and how their consciousness
has been imagined. Course requirements include active
class participation, a research paper of 20-25 pages,
a workshop presentation of the research project, and possibly
a short oral presentation during the semester.
Course materials: Books at the University Bookstore:
Book of Beasts; Chrétien de Troyes, Ywain; Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight. Other editions are also acceptable.
Coursepack at Village Copier (Broadway at 112th St.) Additional
PDF readings posted on Courseworks are provided as background
but are not required.
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SYLLABUS
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| SEPT 7: |
Introduction
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| SEPT 14: |
Genesis, Chapters 1-9
Augustine and Aquinas on Genesis
Sorabji, Animal Minds
Derrida, "The Animal That Therefore I Am"
[PDF: Clark, "The Fathers and the Animals";
Southern Version of Cursor Mundi]
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| SEPT 21: |
Physiologus
Bestiary (Middle English)
Ambrose, Hexameron
Foucault, The Order of Things
[PDF: Curley, "Physiologus"]
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| SEPT 28: |
Book of Beasts
Midgley, "Beasts, Brutes and Monsters"
Steel, "How to Make a Human" (Note: Karl Steel
will visit this class)
[PDF: Muratova, "Bestiaries"]
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| OCT 5: |
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Marie de France, "Bisclavret," "Yonec,"
"Laustic"
Gerald of Wales, History and Topography of Ireland
Daston, "Intelligences"
[PDF: Bynum, "Metamorphosis, or Gerald and the Werewolf";
Cohen, "Hybrids, Monsters, Borderlands"]
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| OCT 10: |
(Tuesday) Lecture: Peter Travis, "Aesop's
Animots," Faculty House, 5:30
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| OCT 12: |
Caxton's Aesop
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale
Travis, "Aesop's Animots" (Note: Peter Travis
will visit this class)
[PDF: Eco, "On Animal Language"; Agamben, The
Open]
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| OCT 16: |
(Monday) Lecture: Donna Haraway, "Companion
Species in Science Studies: We Have Never Been Human,"
Greenberg Lounge, NYU Law School, 6:00
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| OCT 19: |
Life of Cuthbert (anonymous life and Bede's
life)
excerpts from various saints' lives
Aquinas, Summa Theologica on charity and homicide
Levinas, "The Name of a Dog"
Llewelyn, "Am I Obsessed By Bobby?"
[PDF: Yamamoto, "Aquinas and Animals"; Broadie
and Pybus, "Kant's Treatment of Animals"; Editor's
Introduction, Animal Philosophy]
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| OCT 26: |
Chevelere Assigne
Melusine (summary)
Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain
Crocker, "My Brother the Parrot"
Freedman, "Representation of Medieval Peasants as
Bestial and as Human"
[PDF: Rous Roll; Wagner, "Swan Badge and the Swan
Knight"]
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| NOV 2: |
Dolopathos
Seven Sages of Rome
Gesta Romanorum
Sir Gowther
Cohen, "Gowther Among the Dogs" (Note: Jeffrey
Cohen will visit this class)
Schmitt, Holy Greyhound
[PDF: Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus; Gower,
Vox Clamantis]
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| NOV 9: |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Twiti, Art of Hunting
Edward of York, Master of Game
Howe, "Fox Hunting as Ritual"
Cora Diamond, "Eating Meat and Eating People"
[PDF: Smith, "The Bare Facts of Ritual"; Thiébaux,
"Mouth of the Boar"]
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| NOV 16: |
Chaucer, Parliament of Foules and Squire's
Tale
Derrida, "Hostipitality"
Nussbaum, "Beyond Compassion"
[PDF: Kiser, "Chaucer and the Politics of Nature
Writing"]
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| NOV 23: |
NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
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| NOV 30: |
Research paper presentations
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| DEC 7: |
Research paper presentations
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| RESEARCH PAPERS DUE: DECEMBER 16 BY 5
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BASIC REFERENCE WORKS FOR MEDIEVAL LITERARY STUDIES:
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— Middle English Dictionary:
Ancient/Medieval Reading Room, Dictionaries shelf, PE679.M54
— Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church:
Ancient/Medieval Reading Room BR95.O8 1997
— Atlas of Medieval Jewish History:
Butler Reference R 912 B35
— Manual of the Writings in Middle English:
Butler Reference R 016.82 W46 1967
— Dictionary of the Middle Ages:
Ancient/Medieval Reading Room D114.D5 1982
Butler Reference R940 D56
— Bible concordances and encyclopedias:
Butler Stacks and Ancient/Medieval Reading Room: BS400
and following
— Latin Vulgate Bible (the medieval Christian
Bible):
Ancient/Medieval Reading Room BS75 1975
— Douay-Rheims Bible (English translation of the
Latin Vulgate Bible):
Ancient/Medieval Reading Room BS180. 1989
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| WEBSITES FOR MEDIEVAL
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— Middle English Compendium (includes Middle
English Dictionary):
Search CLIO by this title for weblink
— International Medieval Bibliography (on
CD-Rom and on line):
Search CLIO by this title for locations and for weblink
— MLA International Bibliography:
Search CLIO by this title for weblink
— Medieval Bibles on the web:
Start at http://www.awmach.org/webo/home.htm,
choose Online Bibles, choose Vulgate (the medieval Latin
Bible) and Douay-Rheims (English translation of the Vulgate)
— Medieval literature and history:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/4224263.html
http://the-orb.net
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
http://www.netserf.org/
http://www.msu.edu/~georgem1/history/medieval.htm
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