Medieval Studies: Medieval Studies MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS)' website which lists the courses that will be offered this year as well as those offered by associated departments. A graduate course is understood to require at least two hours per week of class meeting and such research hours as may be required.

Art History

Course CodeCourse Title
The Medieval Treasury
Global Medieval Art in China
Early Medieval Art

Book History and Print Culture

Course CodeCourse Title
Introduction to Book History
Book History in Practice
Advanced Seminar in Book History and Print Culture
Individual Practicum in Book History and Print Culture

Classics

Course CodeCourse Title
Criticism of Latin Poetry

Comparative Literature

Course CodeCourse Title
Feminist Approaches to Medieval Literature
Literature, Culture, and Contact in Medieval Iberia

English

Course CodeCourse Title
Old English I
Introduction to Old English II: Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales

French Language and Literature

Course CodeCourse Title
Initiation au français médiéval
Séminaire de littérature II : période

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Course CodeCourse Title
Middle High German

History

Course CodeCourse Title
Medieval Institutes of Perfection
Social Change in Medieval England, 1154–1279
Topics in Early Modern European Social History

Italian Studies

Course CodeCourse Title
Dante
Dante as a Reader of Augustine's City of God: Augustinian Textual Communities at the Beginning of the 14th Century
Boccaccio
Petrarch and Petrarchism
ITA1535HTopics in Italian Literature
Renaissance Italian Theatre
The Commedia dell'Arte

Medieval Studies

Course CodeCourse Title
Medieval Latin I
Medieval Latin II
Advanced Medieval Latin
MST1003HProfessional Development for Medieval Studies PhDs
Medieval Representations of Sexual Dissidence
The Medieval Latin Epic
MST1021HThe Bibliographic Imagination in the Middle Ages
MST1022HTransmission and Reception: the Survival and Use of the Latin Classics
MST1023HEarly Medieval Latin and Greek Poetry
Codicology
Practical Palaeography
Latin Palaeography I
Latin Palaeography II
Latin Textual Criticism
Diplomatics and Diplomatic Editing
English Palaeography
MST1117HMedieval English Handwriting, 1300–1500
MST1372HWhy Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: the Great Divergence Debate
MST1373HEnglish Language and Literature in Transition, 1100–1250
MST1383HPoetry and Prose of the Vercelli Book
The Exeter Book of Old English Verse
MST1388HThe Junius Manuscript: Old Testament Narratives
MST1398HAlfredian Prose
Introduction to the Study of Magic in the Middle Ages
Old Saxon
MST2007HOld High German
Old Norse
MST2018HCeltic and Hiberno-Latin
MST2029HOld Irish I
MST2030HOld Irish II
MST2031HTopics in Medieval Celtic Literature
Medieval Irish Poetry 500–1600
Textual Studies in Medieval Irish Poetry
Legendary History of Britain and Ireland
Medieval Brittany
Beginnings of Medieval Rhetoric and Poetics
MST2042HMedieval Literary Theory in the Later Middle Ages
MST2048HMusic in Medieval Life
MST2051HMiddle Welsh I
MST2052HMiddle Welsh II
Studies in Middle Welsh Texts
Introduction to Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic)
MST3016HIntermediate Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic)
Boethius
Consolation Through the Ages: Later Medieval Approaches to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
Medieval Representations of Death, Sickness, and Crime (1100–1500)
Introduction to Medieval Medicine
Medieval Studies in the Digital Age
The Apocalypse in Medieval English Literature
MST3127HTexts and the City in Medieval Northern Europe
MST3135HDigital Old English
Medieval Catalan Language and Literature
Medieval French Epic: Kings and Heroes
Medieval Occitan I
Medieval Occitan II — Literature
MST3155HMiddle French Literature
Classical Antiquity in the French Middle Ages
MST3160HIntroduction to Romance Philology: From Vulgar Latin to the First Literary Texts
Medieval French Historiography
Medieval French Romance: The Grail
Violence in Medieval Society
Decretists and Decretalists: Canonical Jurisprudence 1140–1300
Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
MST3226HMedieval Mediterranean History
MST3231HClio's Workshop: Introduction to Historical Methods
MST3232HVernacular Literature in Medieval Europe: Status and Function
Communal Florence, 1150–1530
MST3237HMonastic Rules and Customaries
Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
Carolingian Europe 750–900 CE
Saints of Early Medieval Italy
The Merovingians
MST3253HMedieval Sicily
MST3261HCluny in the Central Middle Ages
MST3263HGender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature
Themes in Medieval Philosophy
Birth of the Will: Augustine and Anselm
MST3310HThomas Aquinas
Topics in Medieval Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind in the Middle Ages
William of Ockham
Free Will and Human Action in Medieval Philosophy
Medieval Islamic Philosophy
MST3347HLate Antique and Early Medieval Philosophical Commentators
Introduction to the Medieval Christian Liturgy
Medieval Spanish Sources in Context
MST3602HCrime and Punishment in the Middle Ages
MST3603HSociety and Literary Texts in Medieval Spain
MST3604HThe Culture of Food, Cooking, and Diet Through Daily Life and Tradition in Medieval Europe
MST3606HHistorical Archives in the Digital Age: Books Along the Silk Roads
MST5001HTopics in Medieval Art History
MST5002HTopics in Medieval History
MST5003HTopics in Medieval Languages and Literatures
MST5004HTopics in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Textual Cultures
MST5005HTopics in Medieval Musicology
MST5006HTopics in Medieval Religion and Theology
MST9310HDirected Reading
Directed Reading
Directed Reading

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Course CodeCourse Title
Persian Mirrors for Princes
Medieval Persian Historiography and Diplomatics

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Course CodeCourse Title
Introduction to Old Church Slavonic
Studies in Old Church Slavonic