COURSES
Courses
in the fields of medieval, Renaissance and early modern studies will
be posted here as they become known. If you know of a course
that ought to be listed here, please contact Alan Stewart at ags2105@columbia.edu.
COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE
COURSES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
FALL
2009
AHIS
G4330 Paris in the Middle
Ages (Stephen Murray) R 10:00am-11:50am
CH107 The Church of the first
Millennium (John McGuckin)
CH332
Themes and Issues
in the Protestant Reformation (Euan Cameron) T 4:10-6:00
CLEN
W4121 Renaissance in
Europe: Sonnet Sequences (Anne Prescott) MW 2:40-3:55
ENGL
W4091 Introduction
to Old English Language and Literature (Michael Matto) MW 4:10-5:25
ENGL
G6002 England’s
Antiquities (Christopher Baswell) T 4:10-6:00
ENGL
G6135 Renaissance Drama: The Making of Early Modern Tragedy (Jean
Howard) W 11-12:50
FREN
G4103 French
Literature of the 17th Century (Pierre Force)
FREN
G8230 Readings and Rewriting
in the Middle Ages (Sylvie Lefevre) R
4:10-6:00
FREN
G8212 Montaigne (Antoine Compagnon)
M 4:10-6:00
HIST
G8932 History
& Theory of the Western Market Economy, 1200-1800 (Martha Howell) T 2.10-4
HIST
G9067 Seminar in
Medieval Societies and Institutions (Adam Kosto) M 2.10-4
ITAL
G4079 Boccacio's Decameron
(Teodolinda Barolini) W 2:10-4:00
ITAL
G4050 Medieval Lyric (Teodolinda
Barolini) M 2:10-4:00
MUSI
G8101 Seminar in Historical
Musicology: The Middle Ages (Susan Boynton) F 10:10-12:00
PHIL
G4900 Topics in Early Modern
Philosophy (Christia Mercer)
REL
6330 The Christian
Byzantine Tradition (John McGuckin) W 10.00-12.00
REL
9103 Seminar in Law
& Christianity: Church Councils, 1049-1150 (Robert Somerville) F 1:30-3:15
SPAN
G6148 Microliteratures:
Writing on the Margins and the Location of Literacy (Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco) M
1:10 - 4:00
Course
descriptions (where available)
AHIS
G4330 Paris in the Middle
Ages (Stephen Murray)
The
urban fabric of Paris will provide the connective tissue linking medieval
achievements in architecture, sculpture and painting with the history of the
city from the Romans to the Renaissance.
Syllabus: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/medparis/pdf/medparis_syllabus.pdf
AHIS
G8331 Renaissance
Architectural Drawings (Francesco Benelli)
Modern
convention of architectural drawing before the coming of the digital era
started during the Renaissance when drawing was recognized to be the tool
through which an idea of architecture is transformed into a feasible
construction. The scope of this seminar is to analyze the architectural drawing
under different aspects including that of its function to express the design
process from the early sketches to the working drawings and as a tool of
analysis of existing buildings, ancient and modern. Attention will be paid also
to the graphic techniques and the architectural drawing as an artistic form.
Real Renaissance drawings will be directly analyzed as well as the Renaissance
literature on the issue included in Architectural treatises.
CH107 The Church of the first
Millennium (John McGuckin)
UTS
Masters level Rapid Survey Course: registration via Union Seminary Registrar: Ehunter@uts.columbia.edu]
Syllabus available by email request.
CH332
Themes and Issues
in the Protestant Reformation (Euan Cameron) T 4:10-6:00 [UTS]
An
investigation of topics and controversies in the early history of the
Protestant Reformation movements, both Lutheran and reformed, up to c. 1570.
Discussion of late medieval theological developments will set the scene. The
course will explore how Reformation thought focused around key theological statements,
then diversified into competing ‘orthodoxies’. The responses of lay hearers and
readers to the public message of the reformers will also be analyzed.
CLEN W4121 The
Renaissance in Europe: Sonnet Sequences. (Anne
Prescott) MW 2:40-3:55
Key
texts of 15th- and 16th-century humanism in their rhetorical and philosophical
contexts, including works by Petrarch, Erasmus, More, Machiavelli, Castiglione,
Sidney, and Montaigne.
ENGL
W4091 Introduction
to Old English Language and Literature (Michael Matto) MW 4:10-5:25
Prerequisites:
Permission of the instructor. (Lecture). An introduction to the language and
literature of England from the 8th to the 11th centuries. This class provides a
general historical and literary introduction to the period as you learn the
language of Anglo-Saxon England. Because this is predominantly a language
class, we will spend much of our class time studying grammar as we learn to
translate literary and non-literary texts. While this course provides a general
historical framework for the period as it introduces you to the culture of
Anglo-Saxon England, it will also take a close look at how each text defines
the human, the monstrous, and the notion of "home," as well as the
role language itself plays in defining (or blurring) the boundaries between
them. We will look at how each work contextualizes (or recontextualizes)
relationships between the human and the divine, the natural and the
super-natural, the individual and society. We will be using Hasenfratz and
Jambeck's Reading Old English
as our language textbook, and supplementing it with Mitchell and Robinson's An Introduction to Old English.
Students will be expected to do assignments for each meeting. Requirements: The
course will involve a mid-term, a final exam, and an oral presentation (to be
turned in).
ENGL
G6002 England's
Antiquities (Christopher Baswell) T 4:10-6:00
This
course will explore medieval English versions of the antique past, as well as
their broader setting in ancient and continental medieval stories of disaster
and refoundation. While the bulk of texts we read will be in Middle English, at
each stage students can explore instead (or in addition) relevant works in the
other languages of medieval Britain: Latin, French, or the Celtic tongues.
ENGL G6135 Renaissance Drama: The Making of Early Modern Tragedy. (Jean Howard) W 11-12:50
Prerequisites:
Permission of the instructor. (Seminar). This seminar will consider what the
early modern stage understood tragedy to be and the various
"inventions" that fueled its power and popularity as a theatrical
genre. We will examine plays ranging from Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc to John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore,
including several by Shakespeare.
HIST
G9067 Seminar in
Medieval Societies and Institutions (Adam Kosto) M 2.10-4
A
two-term research seminar designed to introduce students to sources, research
methods, and recent scholarship on the social and institutional history of
medieval Europe.
PHIL G4900 Topics in Early Modern Philosophy: Funky Causation (Christia Mercer) F 11:10-12:55
Funky Causation: In the history of
philosophy and science, efficient causation was only one of several causal
notions, until it won prominence in the 18th century. This course analyzes the
other (funky) causal options central to medieval and early modern philosophy.
We'll analyze emanative, immanent, formal, sympathetic, and
occasional notions of causation through works by authors like Plotinus, Ficino,
Aquinas, Suarez, Leibniz, Malebranche, Spinoza, Conway, and Newton.
REL
6330 The Christian Byzantine Tradition (John McGuckin) W
10.00-12.00
UTS campus. Syllabus available by email request <jmcguckn@uts.columbia.edu>
SPAN
G6148 Microliteratures:
Writing on the Margins and the Location of Literacy (Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco) M
1:10 - 4:00
Readers
use books margins to pencil their ideas about the texts they are reading. Writers
comment on their own production, self-glossing their poetry or prose. Glosses
and marginal commentaries, from the ordination of the text to the scientific
grounds laid down by footnotes, evince the authority of institutions like
academia itself. Industries, from university stationes--old models of
university book production--to the Web 2.0 on the Internet, struggle to gain
control of the uses, location, and dissemination of marginal spaces and texts.
How did readers, writers, institutions, and industries become "solicitous
of an ample margin" (Poe)? Why did they use these margins? What do all
these individuals and collectives seek in the margin? These are some of the
framing questions for this seminar. To
address the issues encompassed we will focus on the study of glossed
manuscripts and printed books created during the Middle Ages, the Early Modern
period, and the Colonial period. The examination of these manuscripts and
printed books will allow us to advance theses and conclusions about the use of
margins as a means to develop new kinds of literacy that transform cultures and
create new public spheres. Although we will be dealing with old sources from
the standpoint of material culture, we will also address contemporary issues
related to the construction of new forms of literacy.