Courses, Fall 2014 MEMS courses MEM3300: Castles and Cloisters: An Introduction to Medieval Communities Credits: 3. Web-based course. Professor Will Hasty Cross-listed with GET 3930. A study of monastic and courtly-chivalric communities as these evolved in the Middle Ages. Explorations of architecture, art, literature and music illustrate how different monastic and chivalric communities saw the […]
Kieran D. O’Conor on “New Work at Rindoon Castle, County Roscommon, Ireland.” A lecture, Thursday, Oct0ber 16, 5-7 pm, Smathers Library room 100 Strategically positioned on a peninsula that thrusts out like a finger into Lough Ree in central Ireland, Rindoon is one of that country’s best-preserved medieval towns. The castle was built in 1227 […]
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The 10th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: MIND THE GAPS February 6-7, 2015 The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Tenth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6-7, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The workshop is organized this year by Professor Thomas Burman (History) […]
The annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan will be in its 50th year in 2015. A number of UF faculty and students participate every year. Professor Florin Curta has organized several sessions sponsored by MEMS every year for several year. Here is an overview of the activity at the 49th conference, in […]
Spring 2014 ENL 4311 – MEM 4931: Chaucer Richard Allen Shoaf ENL 4311 Spring 2014 “Chaucer” will cover all of TROILUS AND CRISEYDE, some of the shorter poems, and about half of the CANTERBURY TALES. Two examinations and one essay will be required, in addition to quizzes that monitor the reading, some of which will […]
Summer 2013: MEMS in Mannheim (summer study abroad) Now being offered as a distance learning course in Summer B: Castles and Cloisters: An Introduction to Medieval Studies (H,N) MEM 3300 (4A95) Professor Mary Watt The goal of this course will be to develop a familiarity with some of the salient characteristics of monastic and courtly-chivalric […]
Spring 2013 Note: all readings in these courses are in English. Arab Women MEM 3931 (#09D8)/ARA3510 (#03A3) Professor Sarra Tlili This course will examine the status and role of Arab women following a combined diachronic and thematic organization. Starting from pre-Islamic Arabia, we will study selected poems by prominent female figures and ponder the tribal […]
Fall 2012: HUMOR IN ARABIC LITERATURE ABT3130, Sara Tlili This course will introduce students to a variety of narratives in different Arabic literary genres through the theme of humor. It will consider how humorous Arab and Islamic society has been, what makes Arabs laugh, how they justify humor, what types of humor are acceptable […]
SPRING 2012 MEMS courses CHT 4603/1962 – MEM 4931/08G9: Journey to the West Professor Richard Wang. This course is designed to explore the religious culture, cultural history and literary expression of traditional China through a 100-chapter novel known as Journey to the West, or Monkey. Based on the famous Tang Buddhist monk Hsüan-tsang’s (596-664) historical […]